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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…
Conflict Transformation and Civil Society: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
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If Armenian and Azerbaijani negotiators ever agree on the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh, it will not necessarily resolve the long-running conflict, because any peace treaty…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
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This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream…
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
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This chapter explores the potential of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) informed by Complexity theory for UN peace operations. An emphasis on policing recognises that UN…
Aid to the Enemy: Linking Development and Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula
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This article discusses the link between development and peacebuilding to analyze South Korean aid activities in North Korea in the context of the Korean conflict,…
Advocacy for Development: Effectiveness, Monitoring, and Evaluation
Briefs & Development
Monitoring and evaluation of advocacy for development is an emerging field. Many CSOs, donors and evaluators are now involved with advocacy. Questions of how to…
Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding: Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice
Briefs & Development
Pravina Makan-Lakha shares the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes’ (ACCORD) experiences and challenges with developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within its role…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
Briefs & Development
In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Mapping Resource Conflicts with Probabilistic Network Models
Briefs & Development
Resource conflict management is an increasingly interesting topic for both scientific advancement and policy analysis. This study provides decision makers with a data-driven tool as a…
Practical Guide: Mining and Communities
Briefs & Development
Working in partnership with Kabinet Cisse (Guinea-based consultant) and more than a dozen authors, especially those affiliated with Insuco, Lien De Brouckere was the lead…
Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre
Briefs & Development
The Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre (AEDC), a co-operative venture between UNEP and the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), funded by UK Department for International Development…
Trends in ICT for Relief and Development: from Mobile Data Collection to Data Driven Decision Making
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At CRS we employ information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) across the gamut of our programming-from our signature activities in emergency response, agriculture and…
Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development
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This article reviews evaluation methods used in the field of international development to draw lessons for the specific challenges of evaluating climate change adaptation. The…
Community Governance and Peacebuilding in Nepal
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This study is based on an institutional analysis of twenty-six grass-roots level organizations which is examined by organizational surveys and three focus group discussions. Findings…
Application of the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Development Organizations in North Rift Region of Kenya
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Today, many development organizations are using Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBME) system to showcase their impact in peoples’ lives. The RBME is a systematic…
Guide on Gender Mainstreaming: Environmental Management Projects
Briefs & Development
Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital to the achievement of other development goals, such as poverty reduction…
Social Capital, Conflict, and Adaptive Collaborative Governance: Exploring the Dialectic
Briefs & Development
Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more…
"We Have No Voice for That": Land Rights, Power, and Gender in Rural Sierra Leone
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Much attention has recently focused on the lease of land throughout the global south to nations and corporations in the global north. It is argued…
Análisis, Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos por el Aqua en América Latin y el Caribe
Briefs & Development
Conflicts over water in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased considerably in recent years, reaching high levels of complexity and impacts on economies, the…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
Briefs & Development
With the conflict in Syria soon to enter its fifth year, large parts of the country have been laid to waste by intense fighting, bombardment…
From Scarcity to Security, Water as a Potential Factor for Conflict and Cooperation in Southern Africa
Briefs & Development
Water scarcity has emerged as a compelling non-military security issue that justifies an expanded human security agenda. This article argues that a buttressed notion of…