Evaluation
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
2014
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UNDP
Henrik F. Larsen
A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
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…
Pioneers of Peace, Implementers of Humanitarianism: Learning from the Ambivalence of Peacebuilders
2020
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Lise Philipsen
This article nuances the popular explanation that peace interventions fail because of a culture of peacebuilders unwilling to engage with the local. As a foundational…
Peacebuilding and Development Trainings: What's Not Working and What We Should Be Doing Instead
2019
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Elizabeth McClintock and Aline Brachet
Peacebuilding and development are two sides of the same coin yet integrating the two processes remains an ongoing challenge. One tool for achieving such integration…
Peace With Strings Attached: Exploring Reflections of Structure and Agency in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding Funding
2013
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Peacebuilding
Patlee Creary and Sean Bryne
This article examines Northern Ireland's peacebuilding process by analysing perspectives about economic assistance to determine if the peacebuilding process contributed to the reification of structure…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) in Community Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
2010
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Evaluation
Lisa Bornstein
Peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA) is a tool that potentially can improve the quality of development work in conflict zones. PCIA’s conceptual strengths and…
Pcia Theory in Field Practice: World Vision's Pursuit of Peace Impact and Programming Quality Across Sectors
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Valarie V Kamatsiko
This article provides a critical reflection of World Vision’s field practice with Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) related frameworks drawing from experiences in Kenya,…
Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives
2017
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Environmental Management
Koen Kusters, Louise Buck, Maartje de Graaf, Peter Minang, Cora van Oosten, and Roderick Zagt
Integrated landscape initiatives typically aim to strengthen landscape governance by developing and facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms. These are institutional coordination mechanisms that enable discussions, negotiations, and…
Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field
2007
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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Cecilia Ferreyra and Phil Beard
The Maitland Watershed Partnerships (MWPs) is a multi-stakeholder forum established in 1999 in an agricultural watershed in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. This paper presents 10 lessons…
Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process
2006
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International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Sus A. Nan and Paula Garb
This article analyzes a set of negotiations within a coordination network. These negotiations surrounded the establishment and development of a coordination network of citizen peacebuilding…
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…
Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
2005
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USAID
David Bledsoe and Michael Brown
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ted Paterson, Barry Pound, and Abdul Q. Ziaee
Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…
Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
2005
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Disasters
Margarita Flores, Yasmeen Khwaja, and Philip White
This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…
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…
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
2012
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Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Lesley Pruitt
Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
2000
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Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.
Marisol Estrella, Jutta Blauert, Dindo Campilan, John Gaventa,Julian Gonsalves, Irene Guijt, Deb Johnson, and Roger Ricafort
This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from…
Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation: A Whole-of-Field Approach
2011
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United States Institute of Peace
Andrew Blum
In May 2010, the Alliance for Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace launched the Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. Over the course of…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
2010
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law
Tracey Holland
The world’s peace-building and development organizations increasingly are incorporating human-rights frameworks into the myriad of activities now under their purview. Slower to develop, however, are…
How Can Research Contribute to Peacebuilding?
2014
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University of York
Kenneth Bush and Colleen Duggan
How do we know whether or not research contributes to peacebuilding? And, what kind of positive or negative impacts may research have? These two questions…
Help or Hinrance? Results-Orientation in Conflict-Affected Situations
2013
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Swiss Peace
Stefan Bachtold, Roland Dittli, and Sylvia Servaes
Results-orientation, impact assessment, and value for money have been creating a growing buzz in the fields of international cooperation and peacebuilding for the last few…
Theory of Change Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Programming
2014
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UKCIP
Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn, and Patrick Pringle
In this Guidance Note, we describe the Theory of Change approach and explain why it is a good fit for climate change adaptation programming. We…
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…
Forested Landscapes for Equity: End Evaluation Report
2020
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Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
Dieuwke Klaver, Hermine ten Hove, Jan Brouwers, Bram De Groote, and Jarl Kampen
This report presents the End Evaluation of the Forested Landscapes for Equity Programme, as implemented by the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) over the period 2016-2020.…
Examining the Role of WASH Services Within Peace- and Statebuilding Processes
2012
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Tearfund
Leni WIld and Nathaniel Mason
This synthesis report presents the findings of a one-year research project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by Tearfund and ODI,…
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…
Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice
2018
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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…