Evaluation
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…
Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development
2018
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New Directions for Evaluation
Thomas Archibald, Guy Sharrock, Jane Buckley, and Stacey Young
International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…
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 in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Guidance from Global Evaluation Practitioners
2021
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International Development Evaluation Association
Hur Hassnain
This book is perfectly timed as an essential guide to help evaluators become better equipped, and contribute to evaluation practice that demonstrates its relevance 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…
Evaluating Peace Operations: The Case of Cambodia
2012
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Journal of International Peacebuilding
Jeni Whalan
This article applies Diehl and Druckman’s evaluative framework to the case of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC, 1992-1993), finding it to be…
Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation
1998
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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
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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…
Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation
2005
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Larissa A. Fast and Reina C. Neufeldt
Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational…
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…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
1999
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Security Dialogue
Charles-Phillipe David
Developing a Prototype Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluating Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Projects
2011
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Center for Military Health Policy Research
Marla C. Haims, Melinda Moore, Harold D. Green, and Cynthia Clapp-Wincek
This product is part of the RAND Corporation technical report series. Reports may include research findings on a specific topic that is limited in scope;…
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…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology
2018
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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 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…
Community Defined Measures of Success and Inclusive Research in Peacebuilding
2018
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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…
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…
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.…
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
David Jensen
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…
Application of the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Development Organizations in North Rift Region of Kenya
2015
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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…
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…
An Exploration of the Limitations of Bureaucratic Organizations in Implementing Contemporary Peacebuidling
2014
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Cooperation and Conflict
Andrew P. Williams and Berhanu Mengistu
This article seeks to unpack the implications of contemporary peacebuilding for bureaucratic organizational forms. It argues that if the contemporary peacebuilding literature is taken as…
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…
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…
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
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking Change Together
1998
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IIED
Irene Guijt, Mae Arevalo, and Kiko Saladores
Mae Arevalo, Irene Guijt and Kiko Saladores have brought together a reflective theme issue that explores some of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards…
‘‘Show Me Your Impact’’: Evaluating Transitional Justice in Contested Spaces
2012
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Evaluation and Program Planning
Colleen Duggan
This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice – the field…
Sensibilidade ao Conflito e Construção de Paz Ambiental em Conservação: Lições Aprendidas com a Conservation International
2022
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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…
Evaluation in Conflict Zones: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Kenneth Busy and Colleen Duggan
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges particular to the conduct and use of evaluations in conflict zones. It does this through examining the…
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…