Case Study: SPREP MMEL Climate Resilience Support Tool

Working alongside Samoan local partner, SkyEye, Spatial Vision created an online tool to assist Pacific Islanders locate a range of climate resources specific to their needs.

Customer Organisation

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Customer Profile

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is an intergovernmental organisation charged with promoting cooperation among Pacific Islands countries and territories to protect and improve their environment and ensure sustainable development.

www.sprep.org

The Issue

SPREP is committed to better managing the environment within the context of sustainable development. With 21 Pacific Island member countries and territories, SPREP aims to achieve environmental outcomes for the Pacific Islands region. SPREP was seeking an open-source tool that provides users with guidance, tools and templates for initiating, planning, managing and learning for MMEL. With many resources available online, it can be difficult for government, community groups and individuals to locate resources relevant to their specific needs. A decision support tool that guides users to relevant resources was required to help climate initiatives and sustainable national development plans for the Pacific region.

What is MMEL?

The three components of Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) are designed to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of projects and programs by ensuring they are on track, achieving desired outcomes, and continuously improving based on evidence and feedback.

The Solution

The online tool is open source and aims to support national, sub-national and community planning processes. It provides links to resources and information for planners to mainstream and integrate climate change in planning and decision-making processes to ensure climate change adaptation and national development plans are implemented. By following prompts within the tool, the user is guided to relevant resources based on their profile, industry and area of need. The unique benefit of this tool is that a user does not need to know exactly what resource they are trying to locate, but instead will be directed to resources that match their profile.

The open-source online MMEL tool makes it easy for users to locate a range of climate resources relating to their MMEL activities.

Semi Qamese, Project Manager at SPREP says, “The MMEL decision support tool for mainstreaming climate change and disaster resilience can be applied across the region and communities to better inform national sustainable developments, sector and community-based strategies, policies and legislative frameworks.”

To take a look at the tool visit >> https://mmel.pacificclimatechange.net/

The Benefits

The MMEL tool has assisted SPREP and Pacific Islands region in the following ways:

Mainstreaming of climate change across regional and international processes
Supporting needs of planners at national, subnational and community levels
Improving development outcomes
Open source tool with online MMEL resources accessible by all
Stakeholder input has ensured tool is meeting requirements
Unlocking a more productive workforce by enabling efficiency and ease of locating climate resources.

To ensure countries are equipped with the policy and planning tools for enhancing resilience building capacities and capabilities, an online climate Mainstreaming, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MMEL) decision support tool was developed. If you’d like to know more, please get in touch.

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