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Framing and Responding to Climate-Related Security Risks in Swedish Development Cooperation
Briefs & Development
Societies worldwide are increasingly facing security challenges posed by climate change. The impacts of climate change exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and undermine human security, and the…
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…
The Political Economy of Land Law and Policy Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Institutional Bricolage Approach
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This article provides an overview of the contemporary land reform process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and presents strategies used by local non-governmental organizations…
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…
Enhancing the Efficiacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
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The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by…
Management Effectiveness and Conservation Prioritizing the Protected Areas Using RAPPAM Methodology (Case Study: Khuzestan Province)
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In the world today, where the industrialization of countries is still on the increase, protecting habitats and wildlife will be possible only in protected areas.…
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
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This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
Evaluating Transdisciplinary Approaches
Briefs & Development
Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches to research and innovation can transform policy, perspectives, and behavior to directly address or build capacity towards meeting global challenges. The number…
A participatory approach to peacebuilding evaluation in Seke district, Zimbabwe
Briefs & Development
Mainstream monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of peacebuilding tends to be mainly practitioner-oriented, while under-reporting initiatives by ordinary people who develop an interest to learn from
their…
Conference Report for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
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From October 23-25, 2019, more than 250 scholars, practitioners, decisionmakers, and students from 40 countries came together for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
Briefs & Development
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
Toolkits & Guidance
This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
Briefs & Development
This paper examines conflicts and forest resource politics in Eastern Mau, which is part of the Mau forest complex in Kenya. Conflict hotspots are mapped…
War-Induced Collapse and Asymmetric Recovery of Large-Mammal Populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Briefs & Development
How do large-mammal communities reassemble after being pushed to the brink of extinction? Few data are available to answer this question, as it is rarely…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
Briefs & Development
This working paper reviews the state of the evidence on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in conflict-affected contexts. It is intended to stimulate a more explicitly…
Environmental Decision-Making within a Recovering War Zone: The Republic of Iraq (chapter in "Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation")
Briefs & Development
Iraq faces numerous environmental problems including severe pollution, intertwined with a host of other issues, principally because of decades of war, international sanctions, and general…
Beyond Revenues: Measuring and Valuing Environmental and Social Impacts in Extractive Sector Governance
Briefs & Development
Oil, gas and mining projects can generate substantial revenues for host countries. At the same time, extractive activities generate a range of other positive and…