Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Mozambique

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) is a twin-track framework that evaluates adaptation success. Track 1 assesses how widely and how well countries or institutions manage climate risks, while Track 2 measures the success of adaptation interventions in reducing climate vulnerability and in keeping development on course. This twin-track approach means that TAMD can be used to assess whether climate change adaptation leads to effective development, and how development interventions can boost communities’ capacity to adaptation to climate change.

Importantly, TAMD offers the flexibility to generate bespoke frameworks for individual countries that can be tailored to specific contexts and applied at different scales. The application in Mozambique has focused on developing an ex-ante planning system for local adaptation using a TAMD-style approach. The team have also used the TAMD principles to propose adaptation-relevant indicators to track changes in adaptation and development performance at national level.

This report compiles the results of the TAMD feasibility testing phase in Mozambique, where TAMD contributed to the development of a national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system on climate change, which is currently undergoing a process of development and approval. We used TAMD to develop seven impact indicators and 42 outcome or result indicators on adaptation. The national government is currently consulting on the set of indicators for the national M&E system. Six of the seven TAMD-developed indicators are similar to the government-proposed impact indicators, while 23 of the government’s 36 proposed outcome indicators are similar to those developed with TAMD. This suggests that the TAMD approach is more or less aligned with the national government’s vision of national-level adaptation indicators.

At local level, TAMD has pioneered a methodology for the production of local adaptation plans (LAPs). The process was based on literature reviews, workshops, focus group discussions and fieldwork at district and community levels to collect first-hand information through climate vulnerability and capacity assessment (CVCA), theory of change and institutional scorecards – novel methods not used before in Mozambique.