2024

-Ongoing

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support for the Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA)

FCDO

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support for the Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA)

CARA is a regional programme supporting governments, institutions, communities, and the private sector across the Indo-Pacific to build climate resilience, restore ecosystems, and promote low-carbon growth.

FCDO’s Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA) is a regional programme supporting governments, institutions, communities, and the private sector across the Indo-Pacific to build climate resilience, restore ecosystems, and promote low-carbon growth through six thematic partnerships, including climate finance, nature-based solutions, urban resilience, and water security.

As the MEL Support Unit for FCDO’s CARA programme, we are delivering seven key outputs: refining CARA’s overarching monitoring framework; reviewing and aligning MEL systems of implementing partners; supporting annual independent monitoring and reporting, including ICF KPIs and GESI impacts; providing targeted MEL support to partners; generating high-quality evidence and learning products; disseminating knowledge through a dedicated CARA website and outreach strategy; and facilitating coordination across thematic components. Our work ensures rigorous, adaptive MEL systems that capture impact, support decision-making, and align partners around CARA’s climate resilience and low-carbon growth objectives across the Indo-Pacific region.

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Ms Arti Ahuja

Arti Ahuja

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Retired from the Indian Administrative Services, Ms Ahuja has over 34 years of experience in administration, policy formulation, project management, and leadership across the public sector. Her expertise spans health systems, nutrition, women’s workforce participation, vulnerable populations, petrochemicals, and social sector programs. She has held several senior positions in the Government of India, including Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, where she led reforms to strengthen worker welfare and represented India at the G20 Employment Working Group; Secretary, Ministry of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, where she initiated the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme; and Secretary, Women & Child Development, where she directed large-scale nutrition and empowerment initiatives, strengthening the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). As Secretary of Health, Government of India she played a pivotal role in India’s COVID-19 response, launched the National Digital Health Mission, and advanced national programs on TB and AIDS control. She continues to advise on gender, climate change, and nutrition, contributes to national and international publications, and teaches public policy and nutrition at leading academic institutions. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health; Master’s in Public Policy from Princeton University; Master’s in Economics (Gold Medallist) from Panjab University, and is a Bachelor of Law from the University of Delhi.

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