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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…
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…
Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States
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Efforts to help fragile states move onto a path toward stability and sustainability continue to face enormous challenges. Climate change is one of these challenges.…
Nexus Meets Crisis: A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water Energy Food Nexus
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Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
ICTs for Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
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This document is one of a series of Practice Products developed under the Conflict, Crime, and Violence Results Initiative (CCVRI). The full set of products…
Theory of Change Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Programming
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In this Guidance Note, we describe the Theory of Change approach and explain why it is a good fit for climate change adaptation programming. We…
Battlefields of Method: Evaluating Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka
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The chapter starts with a discussion of the research literature on peace processes and its relevance to the design and practice of evaluating such efforts.…
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…
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…
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…
Evaluation and Monitoring of Long-Term Peace and Enviornmental Education Program in a Region of Intractable Conflict
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Managing long-term peace and environmental education programs toward positive encounters and peace building in a region of intractable conflict requires constant evaluation and monitoring of…
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding: the role of new media
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This research paper compiles and elaborates on key challenges, opportunities and lessons for the use of new media monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding activities. It draws…
Food Insecurity and Conflict Dynamics: Causal Linkages and Complex Feedbacks
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This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, with particular emphasis on the Sahel, and 2) the potential…
Restoration of Damaged Land in Soceities Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon
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Societies emerging from armed conflict face multiple social, political, and economic challenges. Natural resource management has been hailed as a tool for post-conflict peacebuilding because…
Risk-Averse to Risk-Willing: Learning from the 2011 Somalia Cash Response
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In 2011 the humanitarian community faced a difficult question. Could large-scale cash transfers provide an effective alternative to food aid delivery in South Central Somalia…
Peace Operation Success: The Evaluation Framework
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This article outlines and summarizes the Diehl and Druckman evaluation framework that is used in the case studies that follow. An overview of the decision…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
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When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
International Peacebuilding Goes Local: Analysing Lederach's Conflict Transformation Theory and its Ambivalent Encounter with 20 Years of Practice
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This article examines how peacebuilding theory has influenced the shift from the international to the ‘local’ in the practice of international peacebuilding and analyses the…
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
‘‘Show Me Your Impact’’: Evaluating Transitional Justice in Contested Spaces
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This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice – the field…
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
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The high human, economic, political and social costs of violent conflict– coupled with a growing sense that such suffering and devastation could be avoided or…
What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence
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This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…
PeacePlayers International: A Case Study on the Use of Sport as a Tool for Conflict Transformation
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Since 2001, PeacePlayers International has helped over 50,000 young people overcome deep ethnic, religious or social divides in their communities through basketball. The authors describe…
Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period
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As part of the United Nations assistance for the reconstruction of Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme implemented a large-scale initiative in the Iraqi marshlands…