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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…
Resource Conflict, Collective Action, and Resilience: An Analytical Framework
2013
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International Journal of the Commons
Blake D. Ratner, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Candance May, Eric Haglund
Where access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in strategies for…
Contesting Localisation in Interfaith Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria
2020
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Oxford Development Studies
Portia Roelofs
Amidst a ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding, donors have seized on the idea of ‘localising’ peacebuilding programmes. Donors have sought to include actors who have local…
The Use of ICTs in Conflict and Peacbuilding: A Feminist Analysis
2018
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Australian Feminist Law Journal
Clare Brown
The past five years have seen a rapid increase in international attention on and donor funding for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)…
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…
A participatory approach to peacebuilding evaluation in Seke district, Zimbabwe
2019
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International Journal of Action Research
Norman Chivasa
Mainstream monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of peacebuilding tends to be mainly practitioner-oriented, while under-reporting initiatives by ordinary people who develop an interest to learn from
their…
Evaluating Development Interventions in Peace-Precarious Situations
2010
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RTI International
Catherine Elkins
International development assistance tackles sociopolitical and socioeconomic problems, typically with formal host government and population buy-in (or acquiescence), in settings with complex interrelated challenges. A…
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Development in Peace-Precarious Situations
2006
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RTI International
Catherine Elkins
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) supports evidence-based decision-making in program management through rigorous approaches to collecting and using quality data on program performance, results, and impact.…
Broadening the Analysis of Peace in Mozambique: Exploring Emerging Violence in Times of Transnational Extractivism in Cabo Delgado
2021
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Global Society
Jokin Alberdi and Manuel Barroso
This article explores the contemporary expressions of violence and oppression linked to the action of the extractive industry in the northern province of Cabo Delgado,…
Effects of Armed Conflict on Deforestation and Coca Crops — A Case Study: Caño Cristales, La Macarena National Natural Park Colombia
2021
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University of Western Australia
Anagibeth Choconta Lopez
Colombian natural forest occupies more than 50% of the total terrestrial area and has almost 10% of global biodiversity (Prem, Saavedra, & Vargas, 2020). In…
From "Conflict Minerals" to Peace? Reviewing Mining Reforms, Gender, and State Performance in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
2021
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The Extractive Industries and Society
Claude Iguma Wakenge, Marie-Rose Bashwira Nyenyezi, Sylvia I. Bergh, and Jeroen Cuvelier
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting…
Environmental Peacebuilding in South Asia: Establishing Consensus on Hydroelectric Projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin
2018
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Geoforum
Mirza Sadaqat Huda and Saleem H. Ali
Multilateral cooperation on hydroelectric dams in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin has been suggested by a number of academic studies as an economically viable and environmentally…
Effect of Protected Areas on Human Populations in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict, 2005–2018
2021
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Sustainability Science
Roberto Rodríguez-Díaz, Víctor Javier Colino-Rabanal, Alejandra Gutierrez-López, and María José Blanco-Villegas
It is widely recognised that conservation policies in protected areas must also favour the development and viability of human populations. Although much research has focused…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Satellite Imagery in Conflict-Affected Areas: How Technology Can Support WFP Emergency Response
2020
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World Food Programme
Laure Boudinand and Amadou Ibrahim
The past decade has witnessed a boom in the availability of satellite data whether from established space agencies or from the private sector. Unique in…
Eyes in the Sky (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Eoghan Darbyshire
Regions of active conflict are typically data poor, access for environmental measurements is limited and many contemporary conflicts show no sign of conclusion. Earth observation…
Intertwined but Apart: Natural Heritage in Cultural Property Protection (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
2020
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environmental SCIENTIST
Emma Cunliffe
International attention has focused on the widespread damage to cultural heritage in recent armed conflicts, with conspicuous international effects. International aid to affected sites has…
USAID's Women, Peace, and Security: Implementation Plan
2020
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Unites States Agency for International Development
USAID developed this Implementation Plan to support the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) through concrete, effective, and coordinated action across our…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
2019
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adelphi, UN Environment, and European Union
This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and…
Beyond Revenues: Measuring and Valuing Environmental and Social Impacts in Extractive Sector Governance
2019
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Natural Resource Governance Institute
Nicola Woodroffe and Tim Grice
Oil, gas and mining projects can generate substantial revenues for host countries. At the same time, extractive activities generate a range of other positive and…
Mining the Disclosures 2019
2019
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Responsible Sourcing Network
For the sixth consecutive year, Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) is analyzing corporate compliance under Special Disclosure Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act (otherwise known as…
Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South: Conceptual Approaches
2017
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CRC Press
Maarten Bavinck, Lorenzo Pellegrini, and Erik Mostert
Inhabitants of poor, rural areas in the Global South heavily depend on natural resources in their immediate vicinity. Conflicts over and exploitation of these resources…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2018
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UN Women
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of…
Participatory Research Methodologies: Development and Post-Conflict Disaster/Conflict Reconstruction
2010
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Ashgate Publishing
Alpaslan Ozerdem and Richard Bowd
Participatory research methodologies have been used since the 1970s as a tool to garner accurate information about communities in which development practitioners operate. Their usefulness…
Exploring Community Resilience and Early Warning Solution for Flash Floods, Debris Flow and Landslides in Conflict Prone Villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
2019
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Ashutosh Mohanty, Mujahid Hussain, M. Mishra, D.B. Kattel, and Indrajit Pal
There is a visible paradigm shift in disaster research from hazard and vulnerability assessment to developing framework for community resilience. Further, there is growing recognization…
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Postconflict Assessment
2009
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Global Governance
Ken Conca and Jennifer Wallace
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk…
Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
2014
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Political Geography
Karina Barquet, Paivi Lujala, and Jan Ketil Rød
Advocates of transboundary conservation argue that borderlands can be a source of cooperation between neighboring states that previously engaged in conflict. It has been stated that, by…
Assessing Impact - Monitoring & Evaluation for Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
2018
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Juha Uitto and Amanda Woomer
Effective and inclusive monitoring and evaluation systems are essential for assessing the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of any programming, and are particularly critical in conflict-affected…