Renewable Resources
External Evaluation - "Good Water Neighbours Project" - Concluding Report of Years 2012-2014
2014
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EcoPeace Middle East
The Good Water Neighbor (GWN) project is the flagship project of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) since 2001. FoEME's main objective is to…
Water When It Counts: Reducing Scarcity through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
2018
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World Bank
Paul Christian, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Zwager, and Tobias Siegfried
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water…
Social Capital, Conflict, and Adaptive Collaborative Governance: Exploring the Dialectic
2015
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Ecology and Society
Cynthia McDougall and Mani Ram Banjade
Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more…
Monitoring Ecological Change during Rapid Socio-Economic and Political Transitions: Colombian Ecosystems in the Post-Conflict Era
2017
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Science Direct
Carlos A. Sierra, Miguel Mahecha, Germán Poveda, Esteban Álvarez-Dávila, Víctor H. Gutierrez-Velez, Björn Reuf, Hannes Feilhauerg, Jesús Anáyah, Dolors Armenterasi, Ana M. Benavides, Corina Buendia, Álvaro Duquec, Lina M. Estupiñan-Suarez, and Catalina Go
After more than 50-years of armed conflict, Colombia is now transitioning to a more stable social and political climate due to a series of peace…
Protecting Groundwater
2014
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EcoPeace Middle East
EcoPeace Middle East
Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…
In Search of Protection and Livelihoods: Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Dadaab Refugee Camps on Host Communities
2010
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Government of Kenya, Government of Denmark, Government of Norway
The Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya’s North Eastern Province comprises the three camps of Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, which officially accommodate around 270.000 predominantly Somali…
From Scarcity to Security, Water as a Potential Factor for Conflict and Cooperation in Southern Africa
2015
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South African Journal of International Affairs
Wanjiku Kaniaru
Water scarcity has emerged as a compelling non-military security issue that justifies an expanded human security agenda. This article argues that a buttressed notion of…
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…
Afghanistan: Western Basin Water Resources
2014
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ADB
ADB
The Western Basin Water Resource Management and Irrigated Agriculture Development Project is a ‘sector’ project under the Natural Resources Sector in Afghanistan. The project was based…
Improving Natural Resource Governance: A Key to Ensuring Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines
2010
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Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management
Cynthia Brady, Oliver Agoncillo, Maria Zita Butardo-Toribio, Buenaventura Dolom
Following decades of conflict, in 1996 the Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace agreement with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP);…
Conserving Forest Biodiversity in Times of Violent Conflict
2003
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Cambridge Journals
Jeffrey A. McNeely
Forests are often frontiers, and like all frontiers, they are sites of dynamic social, ecological, political and economic changes. Such dynamism involves constantly changing advantages…
Promoting Conflict Sensitivity in Transboundary Protected Areas: A Role for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessments
2010
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conflict is detrimental to conservation, while conservation is, in many respects, inherently conflictual. How can we reconcile the goals of peace and biodiversity conservation? One…
Gorillas in the Midst: Assessing the Peace and Conflict Impacts of International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) Activities
2008
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats; it can also have a…
Atlantic Council on South Asia Instability [Video]
2013
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C-SPAN
Fatemeh Aman, Shuja Nawaz, Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, Barnett R. Rubin, Barbara Slavin
We are focusing today on Iran and its eastern neughbors, specifically Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. While Iran is often considered a Middle Eastern country, in…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation: Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability
2014
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The World Bank Development Research Group
Shlomi Dinar, David Katz, Lucia De Stefano, Brian Blankespoor
Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility
2023
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Routledge
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, and Anupam Anand, with Shehla Chowdhury and Sierra Killian
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.
Seeking to better understand…
The Political Economy of Land Law and Policy Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Institutional Bricolage Approach
2019
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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 Do We Need to Know to Plan and Evaluate Social Programs and Services?: The Methods of Social Research on Community Needs and Resources
2014
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International Multidisciplinary Conference
Jae-Sung Choi, Chung-Kwon Lee, Myoung-Il Kim, Hye-Jin Kim, and Jung-Woo Kim
Human trafficking is a serious problem faced by many countries in the world. Several studies have highlighted the so called “pushing” and “pulling” factors that…
Theories of Change in Sustainability Science
2019
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Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Christoph Oberlack, Thomas Breu, Markus Giger, Nicole Harari, Karl Herweg, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Peter Messerli, Stephanie Moser, Cordula Ott, Isabelle Providoli, Theresa Tribaldos, Anne Zimmerman, Flurina Schneider
Science-based initiatives generate particular changes towards sustainable development. But why and how does this work? Theories of change (ToCs) can help in understanding the theoretical…
Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
2003
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BioScience
Marc Hockings
Since the mid-1990s, numerous methodologies have been developed to assess the management effectiveness of protected areas, many tailored to particular regions or habitats. Recognizing the…
Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern Within Environmental Flows
2018
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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…
Refugee Camps and Deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021
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Journal of Development Economics
Colette Salemi
To date, there have been few quasi-experimental efforts to evaluate the impact of refugee camps on host landscapes. Yet many stakeholders believe refugee camps lead…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
2014
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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…
Peace Parks and Jaguar Trails: Transboundary COnservation in a Globalizing World
2008
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GeoJournal
Brian King and Sharon Wilcox
An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as…
Project Evaluation: Summary Report Tunisia Development of Rural Regions Integrated Water Resources Management (AGIRE)
2013
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
GIZ
Water is already a scarce and over-used resource in Tunisia. The rising demand, combined with the effects of climate change, could lead to more conflicts…
Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives
2017
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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
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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
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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 and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
2005
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USAID
David Bledsoe and Michael Brown
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we…