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Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern Within Environmental Flows
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The complex nature of freshwater systems provides challenges for incorporating evidence-based techniques into management. This paper investigates the potential of participatory evidence-based techniques to involve…
Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War
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Participatory Monitoring and Evluation, Power Dynamics, and Stakholder Participation: Analysing Dynamics of Participation Between World Vision and Its Stakeholders in The Husalushaka Area Development Programme PM&E
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Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a concept meant to ensure the extensive involvement of project beneficiaries in all stages of the project or programme…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
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Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice
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This dissertation investigates the use of a conflict sensitivity framework in supporting environmental conservation work. Employing an action research methodology, it consists of a multi-phase…
Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development
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International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology
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This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level…
Challenges of Local Ownership: Understanding the Outcomes of the International Community’s ‘Light Footprint’ Approach to the Nepal Peace Process
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This article investigates whether a ‘light footprint’ approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding by the international community more effectively addresses local drivers of conflict than the…
Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations
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The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, triggered by the UN mission there, killed more than 9,000 people and affected nearly 807,000. This disastrous case drew…
How Theories of Change Can Improve Education Programming and evaluation in Conflict-Affected Contexts
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Theories of change (ToCs) are underutilized in programming and evaluation and seldom analyzed with regard to the challenges and opportunities they present, especially in conflict-affected…
Monitoring and Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programs in Humanitarian Settings: A Scoping Review of Terminology and Focus
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Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an…
Measuring Unintended Effects in Peacebuilding: What the Field of International Cooperation Can Learn From Innovative Approaches Shaped by Complex Contexts
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Capturing unintended impacts has been a persistent struggle in all fields of international development, and the field of peacebuilding is no exception. However, because peacebuilding…
The Use of ICTs in Conflict and Peacbuilding: A Feminist Analysis
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The past five years have seen a rapid increase in international attention on and donor funding for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)…
Survey Report on Elephant Movement, Human-Elephant Conflict Situation, and Possible Intervention Sites in and around Kutupalong Camp, Cox's Bazaar
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IUCN Bangladesh, with support from UNHCR, started a project entitled ‘Biodiversity Conflict Mitigation around the Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar District’ with a view to…
Environmental Peacebuilding in South Asia: Establishing Consensus on Hydroelectric Projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin
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Multilateral cooperation on hydroelectric dams in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin has been suggested by a number of academic studies as an economically viable and environmentally…
Conflict Minerals in the Corporate Supply Chain: Is Transparency the Solution to Human Rights Violations in the Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold Supply Chains?
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The European Union has recently enacted the Conflict Minerals Regulation, introducing new transparency requirements for importers of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold from conflict-affected regions.…
Making Cities in Conflict Areas More Resilient: A Conceptual Iteration: Using the Climate Resilience and Security Monitor for Policies in Practice
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By 2050, the UN estimates that 70 percent of the global population will be living in urban areas. Therefore, understanding and anticipating the ability of…
Gender Equality and Empowerment Benchmark: Initial Scoping Research Report
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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) seeks to generate a movement around increasing the private sector’s impact towards a sustainable future for all. In 2015, the…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of…
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…
Linking Mining with Sustainable Development in Afghanistan: The Value of Community-Based Monitoring Approaches
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This research attempts to show that community-based monitoring in the mining sector is rooted in the unease about the negative social and environmental impacts of…
A Framework for Assessing the Impacts of Mining Development on Regional Water Resources in Colombia
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Developing its large-scale mining industry is an economic priority for Colombia. However, national capacity to assess and manage the water resource impacts of mining is…
Food Security and Conflict: Empirical Challenges and Future Opportunities for Research and Policy Making on Food Security and Conflict
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During the previous decade there has been an increased focus on the role of food security in conflict processes, both in the academic and policy…
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…
Resolving Industrial Plantation Conflicts in Indonesia: Can Mediation Deliver?
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During the expansion of industrial plantations across the Global South, forest and land conflicts have emerged on a very large scale. Despite recent reforms of resource…
Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution: Practitioners, Projects, and the Movement
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Environmental conflict is complex and variable, and over time, a concerted field has developed to study processes for collaboration and resolution. This article examines the…
Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution: Practitioners, Projects, and the Movement
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Environmental conflict is complex and variable, and over time, a concerted field has developed to study processes for collaboration and resolution. This article examines the…
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…
Conflict-Sensitive Resource and Asset Management (COSERAM)
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Philippines, especially Mindanao, is marked by political and social unrest, often leading to armed violence. The conflict-affected areas are rich in natural resources – such…