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Forested Landscapes for Equity: End Evaluation Report
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This report presents the End Evaluation of the Forested Landscapes for Equity Programme, as implemented by the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) over the period 2016-2020.…
Did Human Security Forget the Humans? Critically Assessing Evaluations of Interventions With A Human Security Dimension in Sri Lanka
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During the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2006, a number of countries provided overseas development aid under the aegis of human security…
Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention Ecosystem Mapping: The State of Play and the Path to Creating a Community of Practice
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T his report is part of the new initiative on Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention, hosted at the NYU Center on International Cooperation in New…
Assessing Context-Specific Peacebuilding Approaches in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: From High-Level Mediation to Middle-Out Linkage in Syria and from Adaptive Mediation to Nationally-Owned Peacebuilding in Mozambique
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As contemporary armed conflicts become increasingly complex, peacebuilding actors have been unable to prevent or respond effectively to related crises. Considering the policy trends evoked…
Contesting the Climate: Security Implications of Geoengineering
Briefs & Development
Scientists predict higher global temperatures over this century. While this may benefit some countries, most will face varying degrees of damage. This has motivated research…
Effectiveness of Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation on Achievement of Community-Based Water Projects in Tanzania
Briefs & Development
The Government of Tanzania is struggling to implement water projects throughout the country to ensure that 90% of the population has access to clean and…
Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: Are Transboundary Landscapes a Promising Solution?
Briefs & Development
Maintaining the health of biodiversity and ecosystem services is becoming an increasingly important concern for the global community. The biodiversity-rich Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region…
Contesting Localisation in Interfaith Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria
Briefs & Development
Amidst a ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding, donors have seized on the idea of ‘localising’ peacebuilding programmes. Donors have sought to include actors who have local…
The (Im)possibilities of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of High-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Afghanistan
Briefs & Development
Conflict aggravates disaster risk and impact through increased vulnerability and weakened response capacities. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster governance are needed – but often…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
Briefs & Development
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Satellite Imagery in Conflict-Affected Areas: How Technology Can Support WFP Emergency Response
Briefs & Development
The past decade has witnessed a boom in the availability of satellite data whether from established space agencies or from the private sector. Unique in…
Eyes in the Sky (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
Briefs & Development
Regions of active conflict are typically data poor, access for environmental measurements is limited and many contemporary conflicts show no sign of conclusion. Earth observation…
Intertwined but Apart: Natural Heritage in Cultural Property Protection (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
Briefs & Development
International attention has focused on the widespread damage to cultural heritage in recent armed conflicts, with conspicuous international effects. International aid to affected sites has…
USAID's Women, Peace, and Security: Implementation Plan
Briefs & Development
USAID developed this Implementation Plan to support the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) through concrete, effective, and coordinated action across our…
Conflict in Abundance and Peacebuilding in Scarcity: Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Climate Change and Conflict
Briefs & Development
Over the past decade, academic and policy communities have given significant attention to the potential connections between climate change and conflict (climate-conflict). While the degree…
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
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…
What Works in Practice? Responding to Complexity in International Development Monitoring and Evaluation
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The integration of complexity into study and practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has been accompanied by increased demands on M&E teams. Practitioners must now meet accountability…
Using Evaluation as a Learning Process in Post-Conflict Somalia
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The purpose of this study is to describe the nature of institutional evaluation in non-governmental social programs in Somalia. A large number of agencies that…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
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While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
Theories of Change in Sustainability Science
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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…
Social Dialogue: A Tool of Social Reintegration and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Nepal
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Successfully reintegrating former rebels into civil society is a crucial task in post conflict countries. In the aftermath of a decade-long conflict (1996-2006) in Nepal,…
Peacebuilding and Development Trainings: What's Not Working and What We Should Be Doing Instead
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Peacebuilding and development are two sides of the same coin yet integrating the two processes remains an ongoing challenge. One tool for achieving such integration…
Peace & Sustainability: An Evaluation of the United Nations' Peacebuilding Missions in Afghanistan
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This study is an evaluation of the peacebuilding missions in Afghanistan, made by the United Nations, in relation to policies of sustainable development. The theoretical…
Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding
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Conventional wisdom holds that international education builds cross-cultural capacity, and evaluations of peacebuilding interventions point to significant impacts. Yet, little scholarship links these fields or…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
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This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
Designing Peacebuilding and Conflict Management Training in Nigeria: National Peace Academy Experience
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Peacebuilding and conflict management capacity building through training has become a trend and is also considered a mechanism to help in rebuilding and stabilising post-conflict…
Collaborative Governance and Conflict Management: Lessons Learned and Good Practices from a Case Study in the Amazon Basin
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Given the linkages between natural resources and social conflicts, evidence increasingly shows that successful natural resource management requires conflict mitigation and prevention. However, there may…
Adaptive Co-Management and Conflict Resolution for Rewilding across Development Contexts
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Achieving Organisational Learning in Natural Resource Management
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The reality of public sector natural resource management (NRM) agencies today is one of progressively tightening budgets (Mcllroy 2017) and simultaneous requirements to be more…
A Perception-Based Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Approach to Foster Effective Co-Management of the Marine Protected Areas in Northwest African
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In Northwest Africa, the last two decades were characterized by the establishment of many marine protected areas (MPAs) that are considered to be major fisheries…