Humanitarian Assistance
How Theories of Change Can Improve Education Programming and evaluation in Conflict-Affected Contexts
2018
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Comparative Education Review
Christine Monaghan and Elisabeth King
Theories of change (ToCs) are underutilized in programming and evaluation and seldom analyzed with regard to the challenges and opportunities they present, especially in conflict-affected…
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…
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…
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…
Delivering the Promise of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL's Response to the Syria Conflict
2021
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Progress in Disaster
Sonny S. Patel, Bernard McCaul, Gabriela Cáceres, Laura E.R. Peters, Ronak B. Patel, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) has helped to reduce global disaster risk, but there has been a lack of progress in disaster…
From "Conflict Minerals" to Peace? Reviewing Mining Reforms, Gender, and State Performance in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
2021
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The Extractive Industries and Society
Claude Iguma Wakenge, Marie-Rose Bashwira Nyenyezi, Sylvia I. Bergh, and Jeroen Cuvelier
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting…
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…
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
2020
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World Development
Tobias Ide
Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It…
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…
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2015
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Hydrological Sciences Journal
Ashok Swain
Water-management issues cut across all sectors of governance and have a critical bearing on many post-conflict challenges. The imperative of adequate water supply, and the…
Nexus Meets Crisis: A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water Energy Food Nexus
2015
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International Journal of Water Resources Development
Brendan Bromwich
Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…
Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
2014
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Climatic Change
Richard Matthew
Peacebuilding countries are concentrated in areas of heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts, and almost certainly lack the capacity to manage these impacts. In spite…