Short Abstract

PAICE (Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity) explores how evidence on climate action, health, and health equity can be translated into UK policy and practice. We outline a replicable model for integrating evaluation into complex, multi-stakeholder research-policy initiatives.

Description

The PAICE project (Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity) explores how evidence on climate action, health, and health equity can be translated into UK policy and practice. Addressing these systemic links requires approaches that integrate diverse disciplines and stakeholder knowledge. PAICE adopts a transdisciplinary research framework as its guiding theory for project design, delivery, and evaluation.

PAICE brings together researchers in systems thinking, modelling, epidemiology, building physics, and members of the Climate Change Committee and regional government (the Greater London Authority). A dedicated workstream has led the evaluation approach of the project by developing a monitoring, evaluation and learning plan (MELP). This plan aims to apply evaluation principles to derive criteria and indicators with which to evaluate across four project phases: formation, formulation, investigation and translation. Across these phases, transdisciplinary research processes, outputs and outcomes are evaluated using participatory qualitative and quantitative methods.

This poster presents:

• Evaluation principles and criteria adopted to evaluate process, outputs and outcomes

• Suggested methods for monitoring progress and facilitating reflexive learning

• Alignment with the governing program theory, including the intended action model and anticipated project impacts.

• Impact pathways for research and policy practice, including how we

Emerging insights included are:

• Challenges and opportunities of mid-term evaluations

• Lessons from working with resource-constrained societal partners

• Strategies for fostering discipline-specific learning within a climate-health context, including community engagement and systems thinking.

Few UK climate-health research projects embed evaluation activities into projects from the beginning. We hope that the MELP offers a replicable model for integrating evaluation into complex, multi-stakeholder research-policy initiatives. By embedding evaluation in a transdisciplinary framework, PAICE demonstrates how adaptive, participatory approaches can strengthen evidence translation and inform policy in complex, uncertain domains.