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Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation

2004 | World Development
Bill H. Kinsey

In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…


The Political Economy of Land Law and Policy Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Institutional Bricolage Approach

2019 | Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Christopher D. Huggins and Christol Paluku

This article provides an overview of the contemporary land reform process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and presents strategies used by local non-governmental organizations…


What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence

2011 | Gender & Development
Helen O'Connell

This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…


Using Evaluation as a Learning Process in Post-Conflict Somalia

2019 | Journal of Somali Studies
Ibrahim A. Noor

The purpose of this study is to describe the nature of institutional evaluation in non-governmental social programs in Somalia. A large number of agencies that…


Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions

2021 | Evaluating Environment in International Development
Anupam Anand and Geeta Batra

Remote sensing and geospatial methods are useful, innovative tools for measuring environmental impact. They provide reliable and cost-effective baseline information, help detect changes over time,…


The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding: Enabling Action -- Managing Risk

2013 | Global Governance
Jannie Lilja and Kristine Hoglund

Local peacebuilding has been embraced in principle by many donors, but the practice of external support to local initiatives needs further systematic study. While previous…


The Limits of Formal Metrics During Conflict and Post-Conflict Transition: Exploring Opportunities for Qualitative Assessment in Sri Lanka

2013 | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Sarah Holt

Peacebuilding as an approach to assisting states in the transition from war to peace has been around since the mid-1990s, and has become a policy…


The Dual Track of Democracy Promotion in Post-War Peacebuilding in Cambodia: The Gap Between Institutional Development and Civil Society Mobilisation

2018 | Peacebuilding
SungYong Lee and Park WookBoem

Through consideration of the promotion of democracy in post-war reconstruction in the country, this article aims to explain why anti-government protests in Cambodia have recently…


Swedish Development Cooperation in Transition? Lessons and Reflections from 71 Sida Decentralised Evaluations (April 2011-April 2013)

2013 | Sida Studies in Evaluation
Ian Christoplos, Anna L. Hedqvist, and Jessica Rothman

This report presents the findings of a review of 71 decentralised evaluations of Swedish development cooperation carried out during 2011-2013, through Sida’s framework agreement for…


Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern Within Environmental Flows

2018 | Environmental Management
John Conallin, Craig A. McLoughlin, Josh Campbell, Roger Knight, Troy Bright, and Ian Fisher

The complex nature of freshwater systems provides challenges for incorporating evidence-based techniques into management. This paper investigates the potential of participatory evidence-based techniques to involve…


Restoration of Damaged Land in Soceities Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon

2012 | Routledge
Aida Tamer-Chammas

Societies emerging from armed conflict face multiple social, political, and economic challenges. Natural resource management has been hailed as a tool for post-conflict peacebuilding because…


Remembering the Red Sea Marine Peace Park

2016 | Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas
Michelle Portman and Yael Teff-Seker

This chapter aims to share the background of the Marine peace park (MPP) Korea initiative and explores implications and lessons from the experience of the…


Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

2014 | 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…


Peacebuilding Without Peace? On How Pragmatism Complicates the Practice of International Intervention

2020 | Review of International Studies
Pol Bargués

The International Relations (IR) literature has strongly criticised the invasive and top-down nature of liberal peace, facilitating a reinterpretation of the practice of international intervention…


Peacebuilding Through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire

2009 | Security Studies: Feminist Contributions
Heidi Hudson

With the hypothesis in mind that discrimination against women increases the likelihood that a state will experience internal conflict, this article contends that considering gender…


Peace Operation Success: The Evaluation Framework

2012 | Journal of International Peacebuilding
Paul F. Diehl and Daniel Druckman

This article outlines and summarizes the Diehl and Druckman evaluation framework that is used in the case studies that follow. An overview of the decision…


Peace & Sustainability: An Evaluation of the United Nations' Peacebuilding Missions in Afghanistan

2019 | Lund University
Natalie Varady

This study is an evaluation of the peacebuilding missions in Afghanistan, made by the United Nations, in relation to policies of sustainable development. The theoretical…


Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives

2017 | 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 | 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…


Monitoring and Evaluation of a Participative Planning Process for the Integrated Management of Natural Resources in the uThukela District Municipality (South Africa)

2014 | University of Pretoria
Magalie Bourblanc

This paper intends to monitor the changes in perceptions and behaviour of stakeholders induced by the Afromaison participatory process, which is aimed particularly at helping…


Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa

2009 | 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…


Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach

2012 | 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…


Mind the Gap: The Importance of Local Institutional Development in Peace-Building-Funded Security Interventions

2013 | Conflict, Security, and Development
Sari Graben and Ann Fitz-Gerald

In this paper, the authors analyse current spending priorities of the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF)-funded security sector reform (SSR) programmes. They conclude that these spending priorities…


Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding

2019 | 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 Sense of Community Natural Resource Governance Perceptions

2020 | Forest Briefs, IUCN
IUCN

How do you encourage the participation of communities and traditional institutions in enhancing landscape governance in and around protected areas? Ask them. Understanding attitudes and…


Local Peace Committees in Africa: The Unseen Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuidling

2016 | The Journal of Pan African Studies
Abdul K Issifu

This article seeks to unveil the role of Local Peace Committees (LPCs) in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa. Thus, violence emanating from religious extremism,…


Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period

2011 | Water International
Chizuru Aoki, Ali Al-Lami, and Sivapragasam Kugaprasatham

As part of the United Nations assistance for the reconstruction of Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme implemented a large-scale initiative in the Iraqi marshlands…


Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

2000 | 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…


Land in the New Urban Agenda: Opportunities, Challenges, and Way Forward

2017 | World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
Bahram Ghazi, Danilo Antonio, Katia Araujo, Oumar Sylla, Rebecca Ochong, and Susana R. Williams

Land governance underpins all key aspects of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) which was adopted at the closing plenary of the Habitat III, the United…


From Theory to Practice: A Study of Remotely Managed Localised Humanitarian Action in Syria

2020 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ghassan Elkahlout and Kareem Elgibali

With unique strengths, problems, and challenges, localisation is an increasingly important modality for humanitarian relief. Based on the primary research including interviews with practitioners who…