Inès Bakhtaoui is an independent researcher dedicated to issues connecting inequity, finance, effectiveness, and governance in climate change adaptation and loss and damage. She co-led the Stockholm Environment Institute's work on finance for loss and damage and focuses on ways to operationalize and monitor this new finance window in alignment with climate justice principles. She has experience collaborating with the UNFCCC Secretariat, policymakers, and civil society. She has a specific interest in the role of monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities in the effectiveness and transformative capacity of climate-related interventions, especially in relation to equity, justice, and power dynamics.