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This paper outlines the steps needed to apply the Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) framework, providing practical guidance on how to put the concepts outlined in IIED Climate Change. However, this simple ‘risk management assists adaptation’ relationship is just one among many that can be assessed. TAMD can evaluate an intervention’s outputs, its short term outcomes and its longer term impacts within and across the two tracks, and at scales ranging from multiple countries to individual villages. Thus it can explore how adaptation and or adaptation-relevant interventions contribute to better climate risk management on the one hand, and help keep development outcomes on course in the face of climate change on the other. The paper discusses the need for baseline data (and how such data might be collected), suggests indicators that can be used to measure adaptation outcomes (and how these might be tailored to different contexts) and outlines how outcomes and longer-term ‘impacts’ can be robustly attributed to interventions by developing theories of change and collecting causal narratives.