Evaluation
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Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
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Since the mid-1990s, numerous methodologies have been developed to assess the management effectiveness of protected areas, many tailored to particular regions or habitats. Recognizing the…
Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Laying the basis for a sustainable political order in the aftermath of civil war requires a broader perspective on the state than the one commonly…
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
Briefs & Development
A critical appraisal of the dominant conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies usually deployed in Africa and elsewhere reveals its narrow vision. Despite UDHR's enunciation of…
Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries
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Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, systemwide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund…
Conserving Forest Biodiversity in Times of Violent Conflict
Briefs & Development
Forests are often frontiers, and like all frontiers, they are sites of dynamic social, ecological, political and economic changes. Such dynamism involves constantly changing advantages…
Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes
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An evaluation approach that is collaborative and elicitive may well serve as a catalyst for transforming relationships of power, standing in stark contrast to more…
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for GEF International Waters Projects
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Effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in project and program management. If done well, an M&E plan and the…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
Briefs & Development
The Biodiversity Support Program's Armed Conflict and the Environment Project ran from 1998 to 2001 to identify and raise awareness about the negative impacts of…
Towards Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Specific Reference to the Model of Kumar Rupesinghe
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The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to claim the lives of ordinary citizens. This is despite the efforts of the international…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
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This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Natural Resource Management and Research
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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have long been important for funding agencies to assess actual change against stated objectives, and thus to judge whether development assistance…
Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation
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An approach to evaluating the effectiveness of management of protected areas is proposed. This approach has been used in developing an evaluation strategy for the…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking Change Together
Briefs & Development
Mae Arevalo, Irene Guijt and Kiko Saladores have brought together a reflective theme issue that explores some of the opportunities and challenges of moving towards…
Refugees and Host Environments -- A Review of Current and Related Literature
Briefs & Development
The natural environment of refugee hosting areas - or better: the neglect of it - is not only a sad chapter in the annals of…
Building the Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador
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When the peace agreement ending 12 years of civil war in E1 Salvador was signed at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City in January 1992, it…
(Brundtland Report) Our Common Future, Chapter 11: Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment
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1. Among the dangers facing the environment, the possibility of nuclear war, or military conflict of a lesser scale involving weapons of mass destruction, is…
Peace, Conflict, and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
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For states experiencing conflict, climate change adaptation is rarely, if ever, an immediate priority: issues such as national defence, the prevention of further loss of…