DFID BRACED Knowledge Manager Evaluation Plan

The BRACED Knowledge Manager Evaluation Plan provides an overall approach and detailed outline of how the KM plans to deliver a package of evaluative activities across the project and programme through to March 2018. The purpose of the KM evaluation as presented in the Evaluation Plan is ‘to help determine what works to build resilience to climate extremes’. Each of the evaluation activities aims to provide strong evidence of ‘what works, where, and why?’. We have interpreted this as asking two slightly different questions:

1. Do BRACED interventions work, and to what extent? This focuses primarily on robust causal inference.
2. How, where, when and why do BRACED interventions work, and what can be learned / how can good practice be replicated? This focuses primarily on explanation.

These two sets of questions are addressed with a single evaluation design broken down into five distinct Evaluation Activities:

• Evaluation Activity 1 - Evaluating the BRACED Programme Theory of Change
• Evaluation Activity 2 - Evaluating the set of BRACED Resilience Strengthening Interventions
• Evaluation Activity 3 - BRACED Project-level Results:
• Evaluation Activity 4 - World Bank Adaptive Social Protection Programme Evaluation
• Evaluation Activity 5 - Flexible KM Evaluation Resource

A detailed outline is provided for each Evaluation Activity which includes: the key evaluation questions; overall evaluation design; data collection and data analysis methods; key issues for further discussion and clarification.