Evaluation
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…
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.…
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…
UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact, and Learning to Learn
2014
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Routledge
Charles T. Hunt
This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN…
Encouraging Effective Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Towards DAC Guidance
2008
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation's Development Assistance Committee
This report outlines an approach for developing guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. It draws on a broad document review and interviews with…
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…
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
2019
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UNEP Evaluation Office
Dave Balfour
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
The Impact of Transfrontier Conservation Areas on Regional Integration
2013
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South Africa Institute of International Affairs
Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott
Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) have been established or are under discussion in various locations within Southern Africa. The aim is to have 18 TFCAs in…
The Institutional Paradox of Community Based Wildlife Management
2004
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Project for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Richard Hasler
Over ten years of social and ecological monitoring and evaluation, planning effort, policy change, legislative reform, donor support and pilot design have taken place 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…
Monitoring and Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programs in Humanitarian Settings: A Scoping Review of Terminology and Focus
2018
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Conflict and Health
Jura L. Augustinavicius, Claire Greene, Daniel P. Larken, Wietse A. Tol
Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an…
Development and Peacebuilding: Disparities, Similarities, and Overlapping Spaces
2017
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The Practice of International Development
Carl Stauffer
The nexus between development and peacebuilding has been highly contested, yet to conflate these two fields of practice is disingenuous. Building on a case study…
Assessing Impacts of Environmental Peacebuilding In Caquetá, Colombia: a Multistakeholder Perspective
2021
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International Affairs, Chatham House
Hector Morales-Muñoz, Katharina Löhr, Michelle Bonatti, Luca Eufemia and Stefan Sieber
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as what kind of postwar peacebuilding…
Looking Back When Looking Forward: Peacebuilding Policy Approaches and Processes in Africa
2010
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Walter Lotze and Cedric De Coning
The United Nations, through the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), has attempted to institutionalise sustained attention to and the…
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
2012
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation's Development Assistance Committee
OECD
The high human, economic, political and social costs of violent conflict– coupled with a growing sense that such suffering and devastation could be avoided or…
Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding
2013
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Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict
Mike Jobbins
This chapter explores the integration of humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding in conflict and immediate postconflict settings. It begins with a brief overview of international humanitarian…
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)…
Peace Parks in Southern Africa: Bringers of an African Renaissance?
2005
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The Journal of Modern African Studies
Marloes Van Amerom and Bram Büscher
The pursuit of an African Renaissance has become an important aspect of regional cooperation between South Africa and its neighbours. Transfrontier conservation areas, or ‘Peace…
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…
Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding: Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice
2016
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Pravina Makan-Lakha
Pravina Makan-Lakha shares the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes’ (ACCORD) experiences and challenges with developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within its role…
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.…
The (Im)possibilities of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of High-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Afghanistan
2020
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Environmental Hazards
Rodrigo Mena and Dorothea Hilhorst
Conflict aggravates disaster risk and impact through increased vulnerability and weakened response capacities. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster governance are needed – but often…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and Overseas Development Institute
Katie Peters, Kerrie Holloway, and Laura E.R. Peters
This working paper reviews the state of the evidence on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in conflict-affected contexts. It is intended to stimulate a more explicitly…
Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine
2019
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Tobias Ide and Amit Tubi
Environmental peacebuilding has attracted great scholarly and political interest in recent years, but little knowledge is available on the interface of education and environmental peacebuilding.…
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…
Environmental Cooperation as the Instrument of Conflict Transformation in East Asia
2018
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Journal of Comparative Politics
Cabada Ladislav and Sarka Waisova
East Asia is an area with high number of political militarized conflicts, but also with high biodiversity and fast environmental degradation. A decade ago there…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Marwan Haddad
This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…
Contestation and Reconstruction: Natural Capital and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions
2014
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Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Roger Zetter and Brad Blitz
Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion…