Terminal Evaluation: Enhancing Capacity, Knowledge and Technology Support to Build Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Developing Countries

This report is a Terminal Evaluation of a UNEP/GEF project implemented between 2013 and 2019. The project's overall project goal was to build climate resilience in developing countries in Asia-Pacific and Africa by increasing their capacity to plan and implement Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). In addition to interregional activities for capacity building and knowledge management, the project led concrete, on-the-ground EbA interventions in three pilot countries – Mauritania, Nepal and Seychelles – representing three different vulnerable ecosystems (dry-land, mountain and coastal ecosystems, respectively). The objective of the EbA South project was “to build climate resilience in vulnerable African and Asia-Pacific countries by providing support for planning, financing and implementing EbA through effective capacity building, knowledge support and concrete, on-the-ground interventions in the coastal, mountain and arid/semi-arid ecosystems” and had 3 outcome areas (strengthened capacities to plan and implement EbA; increased availability of synthesized knowledge on EbA best practices; and increased climate resilience of priority ecosystems in the selected countries.