Measuring Peacebuilding: Challenges, Tools, Actions
Publisher: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
Author(s): Svein E. Stave
Date: 2011
Topics: Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
How can the effectiveness of peacebuilding operations in countries marked by conflict be better measured? This policy brief examines the steps needed to improve the measurement of peacebuilding work, highlights the technical and political problems this work faces, and makes recommendations for action by organisations in the field. The experience of peacebuilding initiatives around the world has in recent years led to increased efforts to develop new and improved tools to measure their effects. Many projects are already underway, led by key civilian and military actors such as the United Nations itself to defence agencies, government departments, the World Bank, and NGOs.