Governance
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.…
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…
Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks
2010
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Geography Compass
Brian King
Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks…
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 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…
Did Human Security Forget the Humans? Critically Assessing Evaluations of Interventions With A Human Security Dimension in Sri Lanka
2020
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Conflict, Security, and Development
Albie Sharpe, Husna Razee, and Anthony B. Zwi
During the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2006, a number of countries provided overseas development aid under the aegis of human security…
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 Local Ownership in the Architecture of International Peace
2012
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Ethnopolitics
Oliver P Richmond
‘Local ownership' and ‘participation’ have become buzzwords for international intervention, whether military, humanitarian or developmental, by the UN, World Bank, agencies or non-governmental organizations. This…
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.…
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Charles Hunt
This chapter explores the potential of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) informed by Complexity theory for UN peace operations. An emphasis on policing recognises that UN…
At the Heart of REDD+: A Role for Local People in Monitoring Forests?
2010
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Conservation Letters
Finn Danielsen, Margaret Skutsch, Neil D. Burgess, Per M. Jensen, Herizo Andrianandrasana, Bhaskar Karky, Richard Lewis, Jon C. Lovett, John Massao, Yonika Ngaga, Pushkin Phartiyal, Michael K. Poulsen, S. P. SIngh, Silvia Solis, Marten Sorensen, Ashish Te
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is a policy mechanism now agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
Challenges of Local Ownership: Understanding the Outcomes of the International Community’s ‘Light Footprint’ Approach to the Nepal Peace Process
2018
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
This article investigates whether a ‘light footprint’ approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding by the international community more effectively addresses local drivers of conflict than the…
Analogue Crisis, Digital Renewal? Current Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
2020
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Globalizations
Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding, with the United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’…
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…
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 Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
2021
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Rachel Glennerster, Claire Walsh, Lucia Diaz-Martin
Impact evaluations can produce useful insights on how to design programs and policies that can increase women’s and girls’ empowerment and help us better understand…
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 Human Security Peace-Building Agenda
2011
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Third World Quarterly
Edward Newman
International peacebuilding in post-conflict societies has helped to bring armed conflicts to an end and reduced the recurrence of war. According to some scholars, peacebuilding…
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…
Indigenous Negotiations Resource Guide
2021
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Conservation International
Vince McElhinny, Minnie Degawan, Patricia Dunne, and Alli Cruz
This Resource Guide is a tool for Indigenous communities to operationalize their right to FPIC and to effectively engage in negotiations when they choose to…
Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations
2018
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International Peace Institute
Lucile Maertens and Malkit Shoshan
The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, triggered by the UN mission there, killed more than 9,000 people and affected nearly 807,000. This disastrous case drew…
Protecting the Environment during Armed Conflict: From Principles to Implementation
2021
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Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)
Emma Hakala and Freek van der Vet
Conflict-related damage to the environment has become widespread and causes sustained harm to public health, ecosystems, and peacebuilding.
The International Law Commission (ILC) will finalize its…
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…