Work with CAI
What CAI can do with, or for, your institution
For governments, national institutions, funders and research or implementation partners. Support is organised around the capability that is failing, not around a product.
Where we can help
Eight practical entry points
Implementation diagnostics
A jurisdiction-level account of where the implementation chain is traceable, where it breaks and why.
Responsibility mapping
Which ministries, agencies and offices hold each climate-relevant function, under what authority.
Expenditure traceability
A defensible climate-expenditure boundary across MDAs, from appropriation to execution.
Data & MRV architecture
Protocols for what counts as evidence, how it is stored, dated and cited, and what a jurisdiction needs to report verifiably.
Target and results registers
One place where each commitment has a baseline, a target, an owner and an actual.
Peer learning
Structured exchange between jurisdictions facing the same institutional problems.
Research partnerships
Joint analytical work with universities, institutes and implementation partners under published methods.
Longitudinal reassessment
Returning after an agreed interval to establish what changed, using the same evidence rules.
What we do not do
Four things CAI will not do, whatever the commission
- CAI does not assign arbitrary subnational shares of national NDC targets.
- CAI does not treat absence of public evidence as proof of absence of action.
- CAI does not sell higher benchmark results.
- CAI does not replace official national reporting systems.
Independence firewall
Technical support does not determine assessment outcomes. Evidence rules, methodology, adjudication and release decisions are independently governed.
CAI may support a government or an implementation partner. The team that adjudicates evidence and decides a release does not report to that engagement, does not see its commercial terms, and applies the same written rules to every jurisdiction.
Supported jurisdictions are identified in release notes. A change in a jurisdiction's assessment after support is attributable to new evidence entering the governed record, and to nothing else.
Start here
Start with the problem you need to see
Tell us the jurisdiction or portfolio, the implementation question you cannot currently answer from the record, and the decision it would inform. CAI responds with a scoped proposal or a referral, and states at the outset which parts would be independently assessed and which technically supported.