Metrics and resilience Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Director Environment and Climate Division, IFAD

ASAP Goal Poor smallholder farmers are more resilient to

climate change

ASAP Purpose Multiple-benefit adaptation approaches for

poor smallholders are scaled up

Key Design

Features

Simple and Efficient

Smallholder focus

Delivery and

Scaling-up Focussed

Programmatic

Partnership Based

But…heterodoxy of approach – how summarize?

• Maximum use of

natural processes +

ecosystems

• Less external

inorganic inputs &

waste

• Diversity +

proportionality of

production

• Mixture of traditional

& new technologies

• Maintained

and enhanced

groundcover

• Healthy soil

that can retain

nutrients &

moisture

• Enhanced

biodiversity

Multiple

Benefits:

• Yields

• Profit

• Local

pollution

• Resilience

• Emissions

Feature Primary Impact Secondary Impact

Approaches and multiple benefits

Results Framework - summary

• Overall goal: number beneficiaries

• Institutional impact: share overall lending and leverage ratio

• Multiple benefits: diversity (# on-farm species) and emissions

5 ASAP outcomes:

• Land management: # hectares under best practice

• Water: change in water efficiency use

• Human capacity: community groups formed or strengthened

• Infrastructure: $ of infrastructure protected

• KM: # dialogues impacted

Questions

• Would an index approach add value and be

generalizable?

• What can be carried from “resilience

measurement” into regular agricultural and rural

development M&E?

• What potential for improved remote sensing?

• What lessons for SDGs and MDGs?

Thank you www.ifad.org/climate/asap