Togehter with its partners IUCN and CATIE Arepo evaluated the IKI-project “Scaling-up ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures in rural Latin America”. The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) supported the project approach with the aim of increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities and ecosystems in rural areas of Ecuador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. This was achieved by engaging key stakeholders from the public sector, civil society, and the private sector at local, subnational, national, and regional levels to implement successful Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approaches in rural areas of selected Latin American countries.
A siginificant part of this evaluation involved field research in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Ecuador. Arepo evaluated the project using the criteria derived from the OECD-DAC criteria, which relate to the thematic areas of relevance, planning, governance and coherence, effectiveness, and transformative impact and sustainability. This was complemented by evaluation criteria on safeguards, IKI standard indicators, and project-specific learning questions.