Abstract
A major gap in policy making is learning the lessons from past interventions and integrating the lessons from evaluations that have been undertaken. A meta-evaluation, an evaluation of evaluation studies, was undertaken by Collingwood Environmental Planning Ltd (CEP) as an intensive piece of research (July-November 2016) to provide early outputs as part of CECAN's scoping process. A sample of 23 projects (out of a total of 43) was selected on the basis of publicly available documentation (final evaluation reports) and current CEP staff with knowledge of those projects from across the nexus issues, including valuations of flood risk, biodiversity, landscape, land use, climate change, catchment management, community resilience, bioenergy, and EU Directives.