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Evaluation of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme

2016 | United Nations Environment Programme
Emery Brusset

UN Environment‘s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) programme was launched in 2008. The stated objective of the project is “to strengthen the capacity of fragile…


Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders

2018 | 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…


Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks

2010 | Geography Compass
Brian King

Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks…


Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice

2018 | Kennesaw State University
Amanda S. Woomer

This dissertation investigates the use of a conflict sensitivity framework in supporting environmental conservation work. Employing an action research methodology, it consists of a multi-phase…


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 | 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 of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice

2010 | Oxford University Press
Hal Culbertson

An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…


Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation

1998 | Environmental Management
Marc Hockings

An approach to evaluating the effectiveness of management of protected areas is proposed. This approach has been used in developing an evaluation strategy for the…


Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development

2015 | New Directions for Evaluation
Susannah Fisher, Ayesha Dinshaw, Hearther McGray, Neha Rai, and John Schaar

This article reviews evaluation methods used in the field of international development to draw lessons for the specific challenges of evaluating climate change adaptation. The…


Efficacy of Informal Peace Committees to Peacebuilding: Evidence from Seke District, Zimbabwe

2017 | 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 | 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…


Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention Ecosystem Mapping: The State of Play and the Path to Creating a Community of Practice

2020 | NYU Center on International Cooperation
Branka Panic

T his report is part of the new initiative on Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention, hosted at the NYU Center on International Cooperation in New…


Contested Boundaries: NGOs and Civil–military Relations in Afghanistan

2013 | 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…


Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology

2018 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Daniel E. Esser and Emily E. Vanderkamp

This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level…


Community Defined Measures of Success and Inclusive Research in Peacebuilding

2018 | Proceedings of the African Futures Conference
Ella Duncan and Carlotta Fassiotti

Participatory research is a tool for community inclusion in peace and development programs. Participation is a popularly promoted concept, but rarely implemented in research. Search…


At the Heart of REDD+: A Role for Local People in Monitoring Forests?

2010 | Conservation Letters
Finn Danielsen, Margaret Skutsch, Neil D. Burgess, Per M. Jensen, Herizo Andrianandrasana, Bhaskar Karky, Richard Lewis, Jon C. Lovett, John Massao, Yonika Ngaga, Pushkin Phartiyal, Michael K. Poulsen, S. P. SIngh, Silvia Solis, Marten Sorensen, Ashish Te

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is a policy mechanism now agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…


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 | 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…


Application of the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Development Organizations in North Rift Region of Kenya

2015 | Moi University School of Public Health
Nyagah K. Thomas

Today, many development organizations are using Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBME) system to showcase their impact in peoples’ lives. The RBME is a systematic…


Aids, Minds, and Hearts: The Impact of Aid in Conflict Zones

2013 | 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…


A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations

2021 | 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…


M&E Insights Episode 3: Conflict-Sensitive M&E (with Janet Edmond and Fernando Guerra) [Video]

2023 | Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association

In this video, Janet Edmond and Fernando Guerra share their experience and learning related to conflict-sensitive monitoring and evaluation.

This video is the third episode in…


Sensibilidade ao Conflito e Construção de Paz Ambiental em Conservação: Lições Aprendidas com a Conservation International

2022 | Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond

A Conservation International (CI) vê o conflito e a paz como intrinsecamente ligados ao sucesso de nossa missão. Com base em uma década de experiência…


La Sensibilité aux Conflits et la Consolidation de la Paix Environnementale: Enseignements Tirés de Conservation International

2022 | Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond

Conservation International (CI) considere que les conflits et la paix ont un lien fondamental avec la reussite de notre mission.  Partant d'une decennie d'experience en…


Sensibilidad ante los Conflictos y Consolidación de la Paz Ambiental en la Conservación: Lecciones Aprendidas de Conservation International

2022 | Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond

Conservation International (CI) ve a los conflictos y a la paz como conceptos que están vinculados de manera  fundamental al éxito de nuestra misión. Con…


Environmental Peacebuilding - The Year in Review and the Year Ahead [Video]

2023 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association hosted its annual year-in-review roundtable on “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead” on January 24, 2023. This…


Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation: Lessons Learned from Conservation International

2022 | Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond

First published in English in December 2022, CI’s “Lessons Learned: Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation” report is now available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.  Conservation International (CI) sees conflict and peace…


Local Indicators for Climate Security Risk Assessment: Learning from Uganda How to Strengthen Climate Action and Peacebuilding

2022 | Center for Conflict Resolution Uganda
Akiteng Marion

In the Kaabong district in the North of Uganda, climate change amplifies conflict drivers that can lead to increased social or violent conflict. Kaabong is a semi-arid…


Contesting the Climate: Security Implications of Geoengineering

2020 | Springer
Muhammet Bas and Aseem Mahajan

Scientists predict higher global temperatures over this century. While this may benefit some countries, most will face varying degrees of damage. This has motivated research…


Measuring Climate Security: Related Security Threats?

2021 | CGIAR Focus Climate Security
Ignacio M. Lopez, Giulia Caroli, Grazia Pacillo, and Peter Läderach

It is widely recognized that climate change has the potential to affect the social, economic, and political processes that can lead to instability, insecurity, and…


Opportunities for Danish Stabilisation Policy to Engage with Climate-and Livelihood-Related Conflict

2021 | Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Peers Schouten

This DIIS Working Paper focuses on identifying evolving notions of fragility that could strengthen Danish stabilisation efforts in the Horn and Sahel. It foregrounds notions…


Effectiveness of Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation on Achievement of Community-Based Water Projects in Tanzania

2020 | 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…