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Peace Parks in Southern Africa: Bringers of an African Renaissance?
Briefs & Development
The pursuit of an African Renaissance has become an important aspect of regional cooperation between South Africa and its neighbours. Transfrontier conservation areas, or ‘Peace…
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation
Briefs & Development
In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…
The Institutional Paradox of Community Based Wildlife Management
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Over ten years of social and ecological monitoring and evaluation, planning effort, policy change, legislative reform, donor support and pilot design have taken place for…
Multi-County Cooperation Around Shared Waters: Role of Monitoring and Evaluation
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Sustainable development of freshwater resources shared by two or more countries and reducing the risk of conflict between the riparians requires the development of effective…
Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
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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…
Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Laying the basis for a sustainable political order in the aftermath of civil war requires a broader perspective on the state than the one commonly…
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
Briefs & Development
A critical appraisal of the dominant conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies usually deployed in Africa and elsewhere reveals its narrow vision. Despite UDHR's enunciation of…
Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries
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Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, systemwide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund…
Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes
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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…
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for GEF International Waters Projects
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Effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in project and program management. If done well, an M&E plan and the…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
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This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Natural Resource Management and Research
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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have long been important for funding agencies to assess actual change against stated objectives, and thus to judge whether development assistance…
Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation
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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…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking Change Together
Briefs & Development
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…
Building the Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador
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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…
Peace, Conflict, and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
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For states experiencing conflict, climate change adaptation is rarely, if ever, an immediate priority: issues such as national defence, the prevention of further loss of…