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Natural Resource Federalism: Considerations for Myanmar
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The management of non-renewable natural resources—oil, natural gas, minerals and gemstones—is a complex job. Governments must draft and implement laws and regulations on an array…
Assessing Impact - Monitoring & Evaluation for Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
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Effective and inclusive monitoring and evaluation systems are essential for assessing the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of any programming, and are particularly critical in conflict-affected…
Environmental Cooperation as the Instrument of Conflict Transformation in East Asia
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East Asia is an area with high number of political militarized conflicts, but also with high biodiversity and fast environmental degradation. A decade ago there…
Conflict Minerals Disclosure Requirements and Corporate Social Responsibility: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
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Among the many topics of concern for companies and investors interested in social responsibility is the use of minerals sourced from war zones and countries…
Vegetation Monitoring in Refugee-Hosting Areas in South Sudan
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Mass population displacements put additional stress on the ecosystems and often lead to conflicts with the host communities, especially in the case of large refugee…
Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives
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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…
Land in the New Urban Agenda: Opportunities, Challenges, and Way Forward
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Land governance underpins all key aspects of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) which was adopted at the closing plenary of the Habitat III, the United…
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue to Manage Natural Resource Competition: A Synthesis of Lessons from Uganda, Zambia, and Cambodia
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Rural development or natural resource management program planning and implementation frequently confront challenges of environmental resource competition and conflict, particularly where common pool resources are…
Efficacy of Informal Peace Committees to Peacebuilding: Evidence from Seke District, Zimbabwe
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In recent years, informal peace committees have rapidly made their mark either as precautionary or as response mechanisms to particular conflicts. Their main purpose is…
Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Climate Resilience: A Guidance Paper for the Philippines
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Climate change and its negative effects are already being felt strongly around the world, and are projected to increase. The brunt of its effects will…
Compliance Dynamics in Trans-Boundary Govenance of Natural Resources
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The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged…
Development and Peacebuilding: Disparities, Similarities, and Overlapping Spaces
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The nexus between development and peacebuilding has been highly contested, yet to conflate these two fields of practice is disingenuous. Building on a case study…
Is "Good Enough" Peacebuilding Good Enough? The Potential and Pitfalls of the Local Turn in Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste
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There is a palpable sense of humility within the United Nations and other international institutions regarding peacebuilding. Rather than seeking to implement the liberal peace,…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Areas Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
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The Transfrontier Conservation Areas(TFCAs)Unit of the Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) of the Southern African Development Community(SADC) Secretariat was tasked to create…
Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South: Conceptual Approaches
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Inhabitants of poor, rural areas in the Global South heavily depend on natural resources in their immediate vicinity. Conflicts over and exploitation of these resources…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation in the Maiko-Tanya-Kahuzi-Biega Landscape
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Conflict-sensitive conservation (CSC) is conservation programming and implementation that takes into account the causes and impacts of conflict and the actors involved in order to…
Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management
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This forum reflects upon the current state of research on post-conflict natural resource management. It identifies two dominant perspectives on environmental peacebuilding in the literature:…
The Fifth Column: Understanding the Relationship between Corruption and Conflict
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At the end of the last century, the Western foreign policy consensus was that increases in global wealth, a more interconnected world, and ever greater…
Land Reform in Afghanistan: Full Impact and Sustainability of $41.2 Million USAID Program is Unknown
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According to land reform experts, land reform is generally understood to be efforts to correct problems with land distribution and rights to its use. Since…
Wicked Problems: Peacebuilding Evaluation Ethic
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An exchange like this is common in organizations and can be frustrating. The project manager feels like he or she is being asked for data…
Peacebuilding, Civil Society and Aid Conditionality in Cyprus: Evaluating Success Without Sustainability and Impact
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This briefing assesses bicommunal peacebuilding in Cyprus as promoted and funded by foreign donors. This is undertaken by considering policy versus outcome-based conditionality and the…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (Pm&E) And Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case of USAID-Safe Program in Gulu District
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This study examined the extent to which Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) enhances service delivery in Uganda. It was carried out on the USAID-SAFE program…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
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In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Local Peace Committees in Africa: The Unseen Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuidling
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This article seeks to unveil the role of Local Peace Committees (LPCs) in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa. Thus, violence emanating from religious extremism,…
Local Experiences of Liberal Peace: Marketization and Emergent Conflict Dynamics in Sierra Leone
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Over the past 20 years scholars have repeatedly highlighted the complex relationship between conflict, peace and economics. It is today accepted that economic factors at…
Is Peace Building Donor Driven? Inside the Dynamics and Impacts of Funding Peace
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The field of peacebuilding and development has engaged in vital discussions on ethical reflective practice, critical pedagogy, and ongoing concerns (Lederach 1997; Miall et al. 2011) about…
Impact and Outcomes: The Ethical Perils of Distancing in Peacebuilding Grant Solicitation
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This paper explores the moral values that are embedded in peacebuilding funder discourse that affect the focus and locus of peacebuilding projects. The paper analyses…
Evaluation of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme
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UN Environment‘s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) programme was launched in 2008. The stated objective of the project is “to strengthen the capacity of fragile…
Factors Affecting Application of Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Nuture Africa
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Donor countries are concerned about development practices in the developing countries where much of the financial and technical investment has been done with little change.…
Decoupling Local Ownership? The Lost Opportunities for Grassroots Women’s Involvement in Liberian Peacebuilding
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Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed…