The Good Practice Handbook developed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), in collaboration with ESSA, to assist private sector companies in emerging markets assess cumulative impacts and guide them in the design and implementation of measures to manage these impacts, is now available in Spanish on […]

ESSA’s most experienced adaptive management practitioners have written a chapter on Adaptive Management Today: A Practitioners’ Perspective in a book entitled Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems , now available via the Springer website: Adaptive Management Today: A Practitioners’ Perspective Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems      

Children are often more vulnerable to impacts of climate change than adults. How can we generate recommendations for scaling (child-centred) climate change adaptation/resilience programming? ESSA’s senior climate change specialist Jimena Eyzaguirre worked with Plan International to evaluate a pilot project (4CA) in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, […]

Designing effective monitoring programs can be a significant challenge. Monitoring programs need to consider three types of protection, protection from: 1) “finding” an effect that is not real (false positive – type I statistical error); 2) from missing a real effect (false negative – type […]