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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…
Factors Affecting Application of Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Nuture Africa
2016
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Uganda Technology and Management University
Joseylee S Kasule
Donor countries are concerned about development practices in the developing countries where much of the financial and technical investment has been done with little change.…
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue to Manage Natural Resource Competition: A Synthesis of Lessons from Uganda, Zambia, and Cambodia
2017
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International Journam of the Commons
Blake D. Ratner, Clementine Burnley, Samuel Mugisha, Elias Madzudzo, Il Oeur, Kosal Mam, Lukas Ruttinger, Loziwe N. Chilufya, and Paola Adriazola
Rural development or natural resource management program planning and implementation frequently confront challenges of environmental resource competition and conflict, particularly where common pool resources are…
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…
Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be
2011
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Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management
Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church
This chapter explores the state of the art of evaluation in peacebuilding. After reviewing recent developments (section 2) and current practice (section 3), it proposes…
Designing Peacebuilding and Conflict Management Training in Nigeria: National Peace Academy Experience
2019
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Bosede Awodola
Peacebuilding and conflict management capacity building through training has become a trend and is also considered a mechanism to help in rebuilding and stabilising post-conflict…
Decoupling Local Ownership? The Lost Opportunities for Grassroots Women’s Involvement in Liberian Peacebuilding
2016
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Cooperation and Conflict
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Jonathan Joseph
Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed…
Conflict-in-Transformation: Ethics, Phenomenology and the Critique of the ‘Liberalizing’ Peace
2009
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International Peacekeeping
Audra Mitchell
Conflict transformation, and the ‘liberalizing peace’ paradigm of which it is a part, applies a specific ethos of transformation to the project of peacebuilding. This…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, and Bryn Hughes
This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream…
Community Governance and Peacebuilding in Nepal
2015
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Rural Society
Keshav K Acharya
This study is based on an institutional analysis of twenty-six grass-roots level organizations which is examined by organizational surveys and three focus group discussions. Findings…
Collaborative Governance and Conflict Management: Lessons Learned and Good Practices from a Case Study in the Amazon Basin
2019
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Society and Natural Resources
Joshua Fisher, Hannah Stutzman, Mariana Vedoveto, Debora Delgado, Ramon Rivero, Walter Quertehuari Dariquebe, Luis Seclén Contreras, Tamia Souto, Alexandra Harden, and Sophia Rhee
Given the linkages between natural resources and social conflicts, evidence increasingly shows that successful natural resource management requires conflict mitigation and prevention. However, there may…
Building the Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador
1993
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Journal of International Affairs Editorial Board
David Holiday and WIlliam Stanley
When the peace agreement ending 12 years of civil war in E1 Salvador was signed at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City in January 1992, it…
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…
Battlefields of Method: Evaluating Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka
2014
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Routledge
Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, and Gunnar Sorbo
The chapter starts with a discussion of the research literature on peace processes and its relevance to the design and practice of evaluating such efforts.…
Analysis of Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Eastern Afromontane Forest Region on the South Sudan -- Uganda Border Using Multitemporal Landsat Imgery
2012
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Remote Sensing of Environment
Virigina Gorsevsky, Eric Kasischke, Jan Dempeworld, Tatiana Loboda, and Falk Grossmann
The impacts of armed conflict on ecosystems are complex and difficult to assess due to restricted access to affected areas during wartime making satellite remote…
An Inescapable Curse? Resource Management, Violent Conflict, and Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
2012
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High-Value Natural Resources and Peacebuilding
Annegret Mähler
For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber…
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…
Aid to the Enemy: Linking Development and Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula
2016
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The Pacific Review
Dong J. Kim
This article discusses the link between development and peacebuilding to analyze South Korean aid activities in North Korea in the context of the Korean conflict,…
Advocacy for Development: Effectiveness, Monitoring, and Evaluation
2016
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Wageningen University
Jennifer B Barrett, Margit van Wessel, and Dorothea Hilhorst
Monitoring and evaluation of advocacy for development is an emerging field. Many CSOs, donors and evaluators are now involved with advocacy. Questions of how to…
Achieving Organisational Learning in Natural Resource Management
2019
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Community-Based Control of Invasive Species
Katrina Dickson, Robyn Bartel, Dirk Roux, and Theodore R. Alter
The reality of public sector natural resource management (NRM) agencies today is one of progressively tightening budgets (Mcllroy 2017) and simultaneous requirements to be more…
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…
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
2003
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Journal of African Law
Shedrack C. Agbakwa
A critical appraisal of the dominant conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies usually deployed in Africa and elsewhere reveals its narrow vision. Despite UDHR's enunciation of…
Managing Environmental Conflict: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer
2022
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Columbia University Press
Joshua D. Fisher
Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer on the drivers…
Global Governance
2014
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OECD Publishing
Ayesha Dinshaw, Susannah Fisher, Heather McGray, Neha Rai, and Johan Schaar
This paper explores methodological approaches that can be used to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation initiatives at the projects and programme levels. It examines…
Enhancing the Efficiacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
2019
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Centre of Religion, Reconciliation, and Peace
Mark Owen and Anna King
The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by…
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…
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…
How Theories of Change Can Improve Education Programming and evaluation in Conflict-Affected Contexts
2018
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Comparative Education Review
Christine Monaghan and Elisabeth King
Theories of change (ToCs) are underutilized in programming and evaluation and seldom analyzed with regard to the challenges and opportunities they present, especially in conflict-affected…
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…