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This assessment concept paper provides a methodological approach for the formative assessment and summative assessment of GIZ’s International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) and its component partnerships. IWaSP promotes partnerships between the private sector (corporations and SMEs), the public sector and the society to tackle shared water risks and to manage water equitably to meet competing demands. This evaluative assessment concept describes the generic approach of the assessment, the cycle for the assessment of partnerships, the country coordination and the programme.
The overall goal of the assessment is to provide evidence for taxpayers in the donor countries and for citizens in the partnership countries. It also aims to examine the relevance of the programme’s approach, its underlying assumptions, and the heterogeneity of stakeholders and their specific interests. Since the assessment is also formative feedback to GIZ and IWaSP stakeholders, it aims to guide the future implementation of the partnerships and the programme.
The assessment is guided by several generic principles: assessing for learning (formative assessment); assessment of learning (summative assessment); iteration; structuring complex problems; unblocking results; and conformity with other assessment criteria set out by the OECD the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and GIZ’s Capacity Works success factors (GTZ 2010).
These generic criteria are adapted to the three levels of the IWaSP structure. First, the assessment cycle for partnerships includes the validation of stakeholders (mapping), the analysis of secondary literature, face-to-face interviews and a process for feeding back the findings. Generic tools are provided to guide the assessment, such as a list of key documents and an interview guide. Partnerships will undergo a baseline, interim assessment and final assessment. As progress varies across individual IWaSP partnerships, the steps taken by each partnership to assess shared water risks, prioritise and agree interventions, are expected to differ slightly. In response to these differences the sequencing and content of the assessment may need to be adapted for the different partnerships.
Second, the country-level assessment considers issues such as the coordination of partnerships within a country, scoping strategies, and interaction between partnership and the programme. Information gathered during the partnership assessment feeds into the country-level assessment.
Third, the assessment cycle for the programme involves a document and monitoring plan analysis, reflection on the different perspectives of the programme staff, country staff and external stakeholders.
The final section is concerned with reporting. Several annexes are provided relating to the organisation and preparation of the assessment, including question guidelines and analysis procedures.
Climate and biodiversity change can have negative or unexpected social, economic or ecological effects. The Knowledge Flow Paper at hand is dealing with the question what potentials concepts of risk might have for climate related biodiversity research with respect to the synthesis of the results as well as regarding their communication within society. The term “climate induced biodiversity risks” will be introduced in detail and then looked at more closely with respect to its potentials for the research within BiK-F. In the first part, general risk perspectives and their scientific interpretation will be presented and significant components of the risk concept will be introduced. On this basis they will then be applied to the subject areas of biodiversity and climate. A distinction is made between risks for biodiversity, risks for ecosystem services and risks due to climate induced changes of biodiversity for further ecological assets. Thus, this Knowledge Flow Paper initially serves as basis for decisions concerning the possibilities and ways to link risk related areas of research. Furthermore, we would like to offer suggestions to the readers on how to correlate existing discourses on risks and biodiversity.
Zeitdiagnose Anthropozän – Konsequenzen für die Wissenschaft +++ 25 Jahre ISOE – Wege aus der ökologischen Krise +++ Risiken für die Umwelt: Schlüsselrolle von Ärzten beim Umgang mit Arzneimitteln +++ Dialoge zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis +++ Green Talents zu Gast im ISOE +++ Kaufen für eine bessere Welt? Theoretische Erklärungen und empirische Befunde „ethischen“ Konsums +++ Neue Website des deutsch-namibischen Forschungsprojekts CuveWaters online +++ Leitfaden zur Qualitätssicherung in der transdisziplinären Forschung +++ Termine +++ Publikationen
"Jubiläumsausgabe!" Institutsbericht erschienen +++ Millenniums-Entwicklungsziele: Einfluss von Umweltveränderungen auf Ernährungssicherung +++ Forschung zur Energiewende – Interaktive Landkarte geht an den Start +++ Global Handwashing Day 2014 +++ ISOE-Lehrveranstaltungen im Wintersemester +++ Flexible Mobilität: Trend als Chance nutzen +++ Wissensaustausch zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel +++ Klimawandel, Biodiversität und die Folgen für Deutschland +++ Maude Barlow zu Gast am ISOE +++ EiMap – Testphase der Infomappe zur energetischen Sanierung abgeschlossen +++ Ausgezeichnetes Umweltmangement +++ Klimagerechte Zukunft der Kommunen +++ Td Summer School 2014 +++ ISOE erweitert regionalen Schwerpunkt Afrika +++ Klimapolitik
25 Jahre ISOE: Tagung „Lost in the Anthropocene?“ +++ Memorandum Klimagerechte Stadt +++ ISOE in hessische Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz berufen +++ Konsum zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit +++ Klimawandel und Migration im Sahel +++ Flexibles Carsharing: Elektrofahrzeuge positiv bewertet +++ Priorität für den Nullemissionsverkehr +++ Konzepte für klimafreundliches Alltagsverhalten +++ Spatenstich für zukunftsweisendes Bauprojekt in Frankfurt am Main +++ Website Stromeffizienzklassen online +++ Energiesparen im Haushalt: Testhaushalte gesucht +++ Abschlussbericht: Auf dem Weg zu einer politikrelevanten Nachhaltigkeitsforschung +++ Konferenz: Perspektiven einer kritischen Soziologie +++ Leseempfehlung zu Biodiversität und Klimawandel +++ Termine +++ Publikationen
The impacts of climate and environmental changes on migration have gained increasing attention in recent years. Yet the role and significance of the climate as an influencing factor for migratory processes is still poorly understood. Case studies are required which consider the specific historical, socio-cultural and environmental context. The micle project examined the interactions between climate change, land degradation and migration in selected regions in the Sahelian countries Mali and Senegal.