General
Monitoring and evaluating serves as a guiding compass in environmental peacebuilding, facilitating evidence-based decision-making, continuous learning, and the improvement of interventions. As a dynamic field, environmental peacebuilding necessitates tailored monitoring and evaluating approaches that address its unique challenges. These challenges arise from the complex interplay between environmental issues, conflict dynamics, and peacebuilding efforts. By embracing tailored approaches, addressing challenges, and leveraging the interconnectedness of monitoring and evaluation, practitioners can navigate the landscape of monitoring and evaluating in environmental peacebuilding to promote sustainable and transformative change.
Resources
Ukraine/Russia: Die Natur ist auch Opfer dieses Krieges (Nature Is Also the Victim of This War)
International
Polluted rivers, burned forests – rockets, bombs and tanks kill people in Ukraine and destroy buildings, but nature also suffers. The diplomat Illia Karandas warns:…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine's Agony: War Drafts Farmers, Threatens Global Food Supply amidst Russian Conflict
International
As Ukraine continues to resist Russia's aggression, the country faces a dire situation that not only jeopardizes its sovereignty but also endangers global food security.…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
Briefs & Development
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…
A Polluting War: Risk, Experts, and the Politics of Monitoring Wartime Environmental Harm in Eastern Ukraine
Briefs & Development
War always harms the environment. As the fog of war produces unreliable data, it also obstructs our capacity to monitor those harms. While some call…
The Politics of Supply Chain Regulations: Towards Foreign Corporate Accountability in the Area of Human Rights and the Environment?
Briefs & Development
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility (OPEN ACCESS)
Briefs & Development
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 Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
Briefs & Development
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
The Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace: An Evaluation
Briefs & Development
The Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) is a community of practice (CoP or community) that aims to strengthen networking and community building on environmental…
M&E Insights Episode 3: Conflict-Sensitive M&E (with Janet Edmond and Fernando Guerra) [Video]
Toolkits & Guidance
In this video, Janet Edmond and Fernando Guerra share their experience and learning related to conflict-sensitive monitoring and evaluation.
This video is the third episode in…
Environmental Peacebuilding - The Year in Review and the Year Ahead [Video]
Library
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association hosted its annual year-in-review roundtable on “Environmental Peacebuilding: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead” on January 24, 2023. This…
Sensibilidade ao Conflito e Construção de Paz Ambiental em Conservação: Lições Aprendidas com a Conservation International
Briefs & Development
A Conservation International (CI) vê o conflito e a paz como intrinsecamente ligados ao sucesso de nossa missão. Com base em uma década de experiência…
La Sensibilité aux Conflits et la Consolidation de la Paix Environnementale: Enseignements Tirés de Conservation International
Briefs & Development
Conservation International (CI) considere que les conflits et la paix ont un lien fondamental avec la reussite de notre mission. Partant d'une decennie d'experience en…
Sensibilidad ante los Conflictos y Consolidación de la Paz Ambiental en la Conservación: Lecciones Aprendidas de Conservation International
Briefs & Development
Conservation International (CI) ve a los conflictos y a la paz como conceptos que están vinculados de manera fundamental al éxito de nuestra misión. Con…
Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation: Lessons Learned from Conservation International
Briefs & Development
First published in English in December 2022, CI’s “Lessons Learned: Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation” report is now available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Conservation International (CI) sees conflict and peace…
Local Indicators for Climate Security Risk Assessment: Learning from Uganda How to Strengthen Climate Action and Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
In the Kaabong district in the North of Uganda, climate change amplifies conflict drivers that can lead to increased social or violent conflict. Kaabong is a semi-arid…
Managing Environmental Conflict: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer
Briefs & Development
Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer on the drivers…
Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Guidance from Global Evaluation Practitioners
Library
This book is perfectly timed as an essential guide to help evaluators become better equipped, and contribute to evaluation practice that demonstrates its relevance and…
A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
Toolkits & Guidance
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…
Measuring Climate Security: Related Security Threats?
Briefs & Development
It is widely recognized that climate change has the potential to affect the social, economic, and political processes that can lead to instability, insecurity, and…
Opportunities for Danish Stabilisation Policy to Engage with Climate-and Livelihood-Related Conflict
Briefs & Development
This DIIS Working Paper focuses on identifying evolving notions of fragility that could strengthen Danish stabilisation efforts in the Horn and Sahel. It foregrounds notions…
Broadening the Analysis of Peace in Mozambique: Exploring Emerging Violence in Times of Transnational Extractivism in Cabo Delgado
Briefs & Development
This article explores the contemporary expressions of violence and oppression linked to the action of the extractive industry in the northern province of Cabo Delgado,…
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
Briefs & Development
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…
Effects of Armed Conflict on Deforestation and Coca Crops — A Case Study: Caño Cristales, La Macarena National Natural Park Colombia
Briefs & Development
Colombian natural forest occupies more than 50% of the total terrestrial area and has almost 10% of global biodiversity (Prem, Saavedra, & Vargas, 2020). In…
From "Conflict Minerals" to Peace? Reviewing Mining Reforms, Gender, and State Performance in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Library
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…
Effect of Protected Areas on Human Populations in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict, 2005–2018
Briefs & Development
It is widely recognised that conservation policies in protected areas must also favour the development and viability of human populations. Although much research has focused…
Putting Peace Back Into the Peace Corps: Restoring International Volunteering for Development as a Peacebuilding Modality
Library
International volunteering for development is neglected as a peacebuilding model, despite its origins in the early 20th-century pacifist movement. In part, this is due to…
Pioneers of Peace, Implementers of Humanitarianism: Learning from the Ambivalence of Peacebuilders
Library
This article nuances the popular explanation that peace interventions fail because of a culture of peacebuilders unwilling to engage with the local. As a foundational…
Making Sense of Community Natural Resource Governance Perceptions
Briefs & Development
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…
Levels of Conflict Over WIldlife: Understanding and Addressing the Right Problem
Library
Human–wildlife conflicts are complex and defy simple explanations and solu-tions. The fields of conflict analysis and peacebuilding offer insights into theintensity, intractability, and possible approaches…
From Theory to Practice: A Study of Remotely Managed Localised Humanitarian Action in Syria
Library
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…