Outlook on Climate Change Adaptation in the South Caucasus Mountains

Almost all the programmes and strategies mentioned

above include a monitoring and evaluationmechanisms,

application of which is the duty of a responsible

government body as stipulated within the relevant

policy document. However, the monitoring and

evaluation capacity of these bodies is often insufficient.

Furthermore, as none of the countries have climate

change adaptation strategies, none of them use climate

change adaptation policy as an umbrella for sectoral

Monitoring and evaluation

policy papers. Hence, there is no comprehensive

monitoring mechanism, which might be used as a

tool for evaluation of climate actions planned under

sectoral policy papers. Monitoring is therefore also

fragmented. Since ratification of the UNFCCC, National

Communications drafted with financial support

from the GEF and implemented with the support of

UNDP, remain the only and most comprehensive tool

of monitoring and evaluation of climate adaptation

actions in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Georgia