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Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be
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This chapter explores the state of the art of evaluation in peacebuilding. After reviewing recent developments (section 2) and current practice (section 3), it proposes…
Developing a Prototype Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluating Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Projects
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This product is part of the RAND Corporation technical report series. Reports may include research findings on a specific topic that is limited in scope;…
Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa
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The chapter describes some of the political challenges involved in managing the transition from emergency activities to longer-term 'developmental' policies in Rwanda and Burundi. In…
Encouraging Effective Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Towards DAC Guidance
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This report outlines an approach for developing guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. It draws on a broad document review and interviews with…
Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field
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The Maitland Watershed Partnerships (MWPs) is a multi-stakeholder forum established in 1999 in an agricultural watershed in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. This paper presents 10 lessons…
Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
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The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we…
Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation
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Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational…
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation
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In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
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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…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
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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…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
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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…