Monitoring
A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
2021
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Rachel Glennerster, Claire Walsh, Lucia Diaz-Martin
Impact evaluations can produce useful insights on how to design programs and policies that can increase women’s and girls’ empowerment and help us better understand…
A Perception-Based Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Approach to Foster Effective Co-Management of the Marine Protected Areas in Northwest African
2019
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Ocean and Coastal Management
Djiga Thiao, Lena Westlund, Birane Sambe, Hamet D. Diadhiou, Moustapha Deme, Anna Mbenga, and Mmmadou Diop
In Northwest Africa, the last two decades were characterized by the establishment of many marine protected areas (MPAs) that are considered to be major fisheries…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking Change Together
1998
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IIED
Irene Guijt, Mae Arevalo, and Kiko Saladores
Mae Arevalo, Irene Guijt and Kiko Saladores have brought together a reflective theme issue that explores some of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards…
Evaluation in Conflict Zones: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Kenneth Busy and Colleen Duggan
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges particular to the conduct and use of evaluations in conflict zones. It does this through examining the…
Effectiveness of Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation on Achievement of Community-Based Water Projects in Tanzania
2020
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Applied Water Science
S. A. Mgoba and S. J. Kabote
The Government of Tanzania is struggling to implement water projects throughout the country to ensure that 90% of the population has access to clean and…
Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: Are Transboundary Landscapes a Promising Solution?
2020
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Mountain Research Development
Rajan K Kotru, Bandana Shakya, Srijana Joshi, Janita Gurung, Ghulam Ali, Serena Amatya, and Basant Pant
Maintaining the health of biodiversity and ecosystem services is becoming an increasingly important concern for the global community. The biodiversity-rich Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region…
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Protected Areas Management in Iran: Case Study in Khojir National Park
2013
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Environmental Management
Mahdi Kolahi, Tetsuro Sakai, Kazuyuki Moriya, Majid F. Makhdoum, and Lina Koyama
The requirement to assess the management effectiveness (ME) in protected areas (PAs) is increasing around the world to help improve management and accountability. An evaluation…
Management Effectiveness and Conservation Prioritizing the Protected Areas Using RAPPAM Methodology (Case Study: Khuzestan Province)
2019
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Fakhrieh Mohseni, Gholamreza Sabzghabaei, and Soolmaz Dashti
In the world today, where the industrialization of countries is still on the increase, protecting habitats and wildlife will be possible only in protected areas.…
Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries
2003
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BioScience
Jamison Ervin
Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, systemwide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund…
Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security
2013
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Kimarian Press
Lisa Schirch
This handbook aims to improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding by better linking conflict assessment to self-assessment, theories of change, and the design, monitoring, and evaluation…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Natural Resource Management and Research
1999
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International Institute for Environment and Development
Irene Guijt
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have long been important for funding agencies to assess actual change against stated objectives, and thus to judge whether development assistance…
Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessments in Europe: A Review of Application, Methods, and Results
2010
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Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Christoph Nolte, Fiona Leverington, Anne Kettner, Melitta Marr, Greta Nielsen, Bastian Bomhard, Sue Stolton, Susanne StollKleemann, Marc Hockings
The European Study on protected are a management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation was conducted between May 2009 and March 2010. Its main purpose was to provide…
A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectivenes
2010
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Environment Management
Fiona Leverington, Katia L. Costa, Helena Pavese, Allan Lisle, Marc Hockings
We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment…
Compliance Dynamics in Trans-Boundary Govenance of Natural Resources
2017
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University of Gothenburg
Amanda Linell, Martin Sjöstedt, and Aksel Sundström
The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged…
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
2019
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UNEP Evaluation Office
Dave Balfour
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
Assessing Impacts of Environmental Peacebuilding In Caquetá, Colombia: a Multistakeholder Perspective
2021
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International Affairs, Chatham House
Hector Morales-Muñoz, Katharina Löhr, Michelle Bonatti, Luca Eufemia and Stefan Sieber
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as what kind of postwar peacebuilding…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Areas Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
2017
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Southern African Development Community
SADC Secretariat
The Transfrontier Conservation Areas(TFCAs)Unit of the Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) of the Southern African Development Community(SADC) Secretariat was tasked to create…
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding: the role of new media
2013
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Sarah Költzow
This research paper compiles and elaborates on key challenges, opportunities and lessons for the use of new media monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding activities. It draws…
Vegetation Monitoring in Refugee-Hosting Areas in South Sudan
2018
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Applied Geography
Reik Leiterer, Urs Bloesch, Hendrik Wulf, Sebastian Eugster, and Philip Claudio Joerg
Mass population displacements put additional stress on the ecosystems and often lead to conflicts with the host communities, especially in the case of large refugee…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
Wicked Problems: Peacebuilding Evaluation Ethic
2016
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Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium
Reina Neufeldt
An exchange like this is common in organizations and can be frustrating. The project manager feels like he or she is being asked for data…
Using Evaluation as a Learning Process in Post-Conflict Somalia
2019
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Journal of Somali Studies
Ibrahim A. Noor
The purpose of this study is to describe the nature of institutional evaluation in non-governmental social programs in Somalia. A large number of agencies that…
Trends in ICT for Relief and Development: from Mobile Data Collection to Data Driven Decision Making
2015
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2015 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC2015)
Barol Bothwell and Stephen Hellen
At CRS we employ information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) across the gamut of our programming-from our signature activities in emergency response, agriculture and…
Towards Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Specific Reference to the Model of Kumar Rupesinghe
2000
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Strategic Review for Southern Africa
Hussein Solomon and Kwezi Mngqibisa
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to claim the lives of ordinary citizens. This is despite the efforts of the international…
The Peacemaking-Peacebuilding-Development Nexus: Marrying South Africa's Peace Democracy and Development Agenda
2016
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Strategic Review for Southern Africa
Faith Mabera
South Africa has often been lauded as an influential and pivotal actor in peace and security affairs on the evolving African peace and security architecture.…
Testing Conflict Sensitivity of Development Projects in Ghana an Evaluation of Two Projects in Ejisu-Juaben District, Ashanti Region
2013
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Intenraitonal Journal of Political Science and Development
Sheka Bangura
There has been serious concern about the nexus between development assistance and conflicts in the recipient nations. Thus, donors have been rethinking their assistance packages…
Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
2003
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BioScience
Marc Hockings
Since the mid-1990s, numerous methodologies have been developed to assess the management effectiveness of protected areas, many tailored to particular regions or habitats. Recognizing the…
Refugee Camps and Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021
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Journal of Development Economics
Colette Salemi
To date, there have been few quasi-experimental efforts to evaluate the impact of refugee camps on host landscapes. Yet many stakeholders believe refugee camps lead…
Peace Parks and Jaguar Trails: Transboundary COnservation in a Globalizing World
2008
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GeoJournal
Brian King and Sharon Wilcox
An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as…
Seeing Like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan
2008
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
John Heathershaw
The international community claims transformative power over post-conflict spaces via the concept of peacebuilding. International actors discursively make space for themselves in settings such as…