Monitoring
Risk-Averse to Risk-Willing: Learning from the 2011 Somalia Cash Response
2012
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Global Food Security
Degan Ali and Kirsten Gelsdorf
In 2011 the humanitarian community faced a difficult question. Could large-scale cash transfers provide an effective alternative to food aid delivery in South Central Somalia…
Project Evaluation: Summary Report Tunisia Development of Rural Regions Integrated Water Resources Management (AGIRE)
2013
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
GIZ
Water is already a scarce and over-used resource in Tunisia. The rising demand, combined with the effects of climate change, could lead to more conflicts…
Post-Crisis Zimbabwe's Innovative Financing Mechanisms in the Social Sectors: A Practical Approach to Implementing the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
2014
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International Health and Human Rights
Peter Salama, Wei Ha, Joel Negin, Samson Muradzikwa
By focusing on working with line ministries in non-contested sectors to determine local priorities rather than following global prescriptions, pooling funds to achieve scale rather…
Peacebuilding Without Peace? On How Pragmatism Complicates the Practice of International Intervention
2020
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Review of International Studies
Pol Bargués
The International Relations (IR) literature has strongly criticised the invasive and top-down nature of liberal peace, facilitating a reinterpretation of the practice of international intervention…
Peace Operation Success: The Evaluation Framework
2012
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Journal of International Peacebuilding
Paul F. Diehl and Daniel Druckman
This article outlines and summarizes the Diehl and Druckman evaluation framework that is used in the case studies that follow. An overview of the decision…
Monitoring and Evaluation of a Participative Planning Process for the Integrated Management of Natural Resources in the uThukela District Municipality (South Africa)
2014
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University of Pretoria
Magalie Bourblanc
This paper intends to monitor the changes in perceptions and behaviour of stakeholders induced by the Afromaison participatory process, which is aimed particularly at helping…
Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa
2009
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Humanitarian Policy Group
Christopher D. Huggins
The chapter describes some of the political challenges involved in managing the transition from emergency activities to longer-term 'developmental' policies in Rwanda and Burundi. In…
Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding
2019
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Resolution Quarterly
Jeffrey Pugh and Karen Ross
Conventional wisdom holds that international education builds cross-cultural capacity, and evaluations of peacebuilding interventions point to significant impacts. Yet, little scholarship links these fields or…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
2016
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Dennis Sandole and Ingrid Staroste
In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Mainstreaming Failure or a Small Measure of Success? Observations from a Large-Scale PCIA in Post-War Sri Lanka
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Simona Achitei
In May 2009, controversies emerged over Sri Lanka’s human rights record in the last stages of the 27-year civil war between the Government of Sri…
Local Peace Committees in Africa: The Unseen Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuidling
2016
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The Journal of Pan African Studies
Abdul K Issifu
This article seeks to unveil the role of Local Peace Committees (LPCs) in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa. Thus, violence emanating from religious extremism,…
Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period
2011
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Water International
Chizuru Aoki, Ali Al-Lami, and Sivapragasam Kugaprasatham
As part of the United Nations assistance for the reconstruction of Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme implemented a large-scale initiative in the Iraqi marshlands…
Integrating Knowledge Exchange and the Assessment of Dryland Management Alternatives -- A Learning-Centered Participatory Approach
2017
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Journal of Environmental Management
Susana Bautista, Joan Llovet, Anahi Ocampo-Melfar, Alberto Vilagrosa, Angeles G. Mayor, Cristina Murias, V. R. Vallejo, and Barron J. Orr
The adoption of sustainable land management strategies and practices that respond to current climate and human pressures requires both assessment tools that can lead to…
Impact and Outcomes: The Ethical Perils of Distancing in Peacebuilding Grant Solicitation
2016
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Reina Neufeldt
This paper explores the moral values that are embedded in peacebuilding funder discourse that affect the focus and locus of peacebuilding projects. The paper analyses…
ICTs for Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
2014
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Search for Common Ground
Vanessa Corlazzoli and J. White
This document is one of a series of Practice Products developed under the Conflict, Crime, and Violence Results Initiative (CCVRI). The full set of products…
Gender Empowerment and United Nations Peacebuilding
2009
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Journal of Peace Research
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Previous studies have suggested that societies where women have higher social and economic status and greater political representation are less likely to become involved in…
Gaps in Knowledge About Local Peacebuilding: A Study in Deficiency from Jos, Nigeria
2020
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Third World Quarterly
Reina C. Neufeldt, Mary L. Klassen, John Danboyi, Jessica Dyck, and Mugu Z. Bako
The emphasis on local or hybrid efforts in peacebuilding literature brings front and centre the importance of being rooted within a particular context, with leadership…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst, and Katie Peters
This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
2018
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Disasters
Colin Walsh
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Evaluation Report on Supporting Systemic and Participatory Mediation Approaches Within Local Peace Committees Implemented by CSSP and CPRP in Dhading and Rautahat in 2012
2012
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Berlin Centre for Integrative Mediation
Prem R. Ojha
The CSSP, Germany and CPRP, Nepal designed “Supporting systemic and participatory mediation approaches within Local Peace Committees” project which has been implemented in Dhading and…
Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes
2002
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Contemporary Justice Review
Harry Mika
An evaluation approach that is collaborative and elicitive may well serve as a catalyst for transforming relationships of power, standing in stark contrast to more…
Efficacy of Informal Peace Committees to Peacebuilding: Evidence from Seke District, Zimbabwe
2017
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African Evaluation Journal
Norman Chivasa
In recent years, informal peace committees have rapidly made their mark either as precautionary or as response mechanisms to particular conflicts. Their main purpose is…
Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Climate Resilience: A Guidance Paper for the Philippines
2017
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ISET Relience and Research Group
Kenneth MacClune, Colleen McGinn, Furqan Asif and Kanmani Venkateswaran
Climate change and its negative effects are already being felt strongly around the world, and are projected to increase. The brunt of its effects will…
Contested Boundaries: NGOs and Civil–military Relations in Afghanistan
2013
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Central Asian Survey
Jonathan Goodhand
In recent years there has been a growing focus in academic and policy circles on the changing roles of military and civilian actors in the…
Beyond the Log Frame: A New Tool for Examining Health and Peacebuilding Initiatives
2008
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Development in Practice
Natalie J. Grove and Anthony B. Zwi
How do we move from identifying ethical principles to enhancing development practice? How can donors and NGOs move beyond the reporting of technical outputs to…
Assessing Context-Specific Peacebuilding Approaches in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: From High-Level Mediation to Middle-Out Linkage in Syria and from Adaptive Mediation to Nationally-Owned Peacebuilding in Mozambique
2020
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Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
Ako Muto and Rui Saraiva
As contemporary armed conflicts become increasingly complex, peacebuilding actors have been unable to prevent or respond effectively to related crises. Considering the policy trends evoked…
Analogue Crisis, Digital Renewal? Current Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
2020
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Globalizations
Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding, with the United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’…
Alternative Approaches to Evaluatating Peacebuilding Initiatives
2014
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CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Isabella Jean and Anita Ernstorfer
This paper reflects on the use of evaluative approaches to peacebuilding and why they are important as alternatives to formal evaluations. The authors provide a…
Aids, Minds, and Hearts: The Impact of Aid in Conflict Zones
2013
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Conflict Management and Peace Science
Jan R. Böhnke and Christoph Zürcher
It is widely assumed that development aid can help to stabilize regions in or after conflict. However, we lack empirical evidence for this assumption, and…
Adaptive Co-Management and Conflict Resolution for Rewilding across Development Contexts
2019
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Rewilding
James R.A. Butler, Juliette C. Young, and Mariella Marzano