Quantification and scoring of evaluation criteria

\label{quantification-and-scoring-of-evaluation-criteria} The first issue concerns the quantification and scoring of project indicators. All indicators associated with the evaluation criteria should be firstly quantified, secondly compared with a benchmark (e.g. the baseline situation without the project) and thirdly be scored. The scoring system can be based on the ratio of the improvement that a certain adaptation activity achieves, in comparison to the baseline, to the difference to its respective target, expressed in %. This percentage can subsequently be translated to a 0 - 1 point scoring scale. In cases where there is more than one indicator, such as two outputs indicators measuring progress on different dimensions, then the final score can be calculated as the equal weighted summation of the scores of the two selected indicators. By way of illustration, the scoring system related to the criteria of implementation, efficiency, effectiveness, equity and sustainability can be conceptualized as follows (see boxes below).