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Alternative Approaches to Evaluatating Peacebuilding Initiatives
Briefs & Development
This paper reflects on the use of evaluative approaches to peacebuilding and why they are important as alternatives to formal evaluations. The authors provide a…
Global Governance
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This paper explores methodological approaches that can be used to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation initiatives at the projects and programme levels. It examines…
UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact, and Learning to Learn
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This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Guidelines: The Establishment and Development of TFCA Initiatives Between SADC Member States
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Transfrontier Conservation and the establishment and development of Transfrontier Conservation Areas are recognised as a mechanism that is appropriate for delivery on a number of…
Needs Before Tools: Using Technology in Environmental Conflict Resolution
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Environmental conflict resolution practitioners have become increasingly interested in using information technology to work collaboratively across sectors. Discussions to date, however, have focused on specific…
Climate Change and Conflict: Making Sense of Disparate Findings
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This introduction to the special issues starts with a general overview of the literature. The relationship between climate, climate change, and conflict has been empirically…
Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
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Advocates of transboundary conservation argue that borderlands can be a source of cooperation between neighboring states that previously engaged in conflict. It has been stated that, by…
External Evaluation - "Good Water Neighbours Project" - Concluding Report of Years 2012-2014
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The Good Water Neighbor (GWN) project is the flagship project of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) since 2001. FoEME's main objective is to…
Protecting Groundwater
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Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation
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This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…
Building for the Longterm: Avoiding the Resource Curse in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s natural resources offer both hope and risk. Many people look to mining and oil to drive development as the international presence winds down. But…
Contestation and Reconstruction: Natural Capital and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions
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Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion…
Political Violence, Land Reform and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe
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The article examines the impact of politically-motivated violence in Zimbabwe following the 2000 referendum and the accompanying it controversial land reform on children's health, measured…
Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
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Peacebuilding countries are concentrated in areas of heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts, and almost certainly lack the capacity to manage these impacts. In spite…
Afghanistan: Western Basin Water Resources
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The Western Basin Water Resource Management and Irrigated Agriculture Development Project is a ‘sector’ project under the Natural Resources Sector in Afghanistan. The project was based…
Afghanistan Reconnected: Regional Economic Security Beyond 2014
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Afghanistan’s economic development is at a critical and exciting juncture as international troops withdraw at the end of this year, and the country elects a…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation: Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability
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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially…
National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change
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This report re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. In the…
Mitigating Human Rights Impacts
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A briefing outlining principled corporate management and digging deep to rebuild trust as mechanisms for mitigating human rights impacts and provides guidelines for creating human…
Wicked Problems in Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Making Progress in Measuring Progress Through the New Deal
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Peacebuilding and its relatively new partner in international policy discourse and practice—statebuilding—are moving in increasingly larger circles with the recognition that business cannot be done…
Thinking Creatively About Methodological Issues in Conflict-Affected Societies
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Conducting interviews and collecting data with which to evaluate peacebuilding programming may be problematic in many conflict-affected societies. However, many researchers do not document their…
The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding: Enabling Action -- Managing Risk
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Local peacebuilding has been embraced in principle by many donors, but the practice of external support to local initiatives needs further systematic study. While previous…
The Limits of Formal Metrics During Conflict and Post-Conflict Transition: Exploring Opportunities for Qualitative Assessment in Sri Lanka
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Peacebuilding as an approach to assisting states in the transition from war to peace has been around since the mid-1990s, and has become a policy…
The Flow of Management Practices: An Analysis of NGO Monitoring and Evaluation Dynamics
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Which characteristics of NGOs are associated with the adoption of modern management practices and to what extent have those practices become standardized? Based on a…
Testing Conflict Sensitivity of Development Projects in Ghana an Evaluation of Two Projects in Ejisu-Juaben District, Ashanti Region
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There has been serious concern about the nexus between development assistance and conflicts in the recipient nations. Thus, donors have been rethinking their assistance packages…
Swedish Development Cooperation in Transition? Lessons and Reflections from 71 Sida Decentralised Evaluations (April 2011-April 2013)
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This report presents the findings of a review of 71 decentralised evaluations of Swedish development cooperation carried out during 2011-2013, through Sida’s framework agreement for…
Project Evaluation: Summary Report Tunisia Development of Rural Regions Integrated Water Resources Management (AGIRE)
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Water is already a scarce and over-used resource in Tunisia. The rising demand, combined with the effects of climate change, could lead to more conflicts…
Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes
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The goal of this document is to improve the effectiveness of DFID programmes and the measurement of their impacts by providing DFID Advisers with the…
Peace With Strings Attached: Exploring Reflections of Structure and Agency in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding Funding
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This article examines Northern Ireland's peacebuilding process by analysing perspectives about economic assistance to determine if the peacebuilding process contributed to the reification of structure…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
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Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…