Supplementary information files for "Beyond coherence: a DAC criteria review of Sri Lanka’s climate policy architecture"

The pilot coding process achieved an intercoder reliability score of 0.81, indicating strong agreement between coders. The findings indicate that Sri Lanka’s policy architecture performs strongly on relevance and coherence, with mean scores of 4.1 and 3.9, respectively, reflecting substantial strategic alignment with the country’s multi-hazard climate risk profile. However, effectiveness and efficiency remained moderate, with both recording mean scores of 3.1, while equity and gender considerations emerged as the weakest dimension at 3.0.

Sustainability varied across instruments depending on the extent to which they incorporated operational monitoring, statutory review cycles and multi-year financing arrangements. Instruments with clearer SMART targets, operational monitoring, reporting and verification systems, designated institutional responsibilities and costed financing pathways performed more strongly than those relying on broad commitments or annualised budget structures.

Overall, Sri Lanka’s principal climate governance challenge lies not in the absence of policy ambition, but in the incomplete institutionalisation of delivery systems needed to convert strategic coherence into measurable resilience outcomes.<br><br>© The Author(s), CC BY 4.0</p>