Assessment

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (Pm&E) And Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case of USAID-Safe Program in Gulu District

2016 | Uganda Management Institute
Ronny Kajaga, Innocent Nuwagaba, and George Mugerwa

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…

Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field

2007 | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Cecilia Ferreyra and Phil Beard

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…

Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process

2006 | International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Sus A. Nan and Paula Garb

This article analyzes a set of negotiations within a coordination network. These negotiations surrounded the establishment and development of a coordination network of citizen peacebuilding…

Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks

2005 | Disasters
Margarita Flores, Yasmeen Khwaja, and Philip White

This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…

Measuring Peacebuilding: Challenges, Tools, Actions

2011 | Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
Svein E. Stave

How can the effectiveness of peacebuilding operations in countries marked by conflict be better measured? This policy brief examines the steps needed to improve the…

Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding

2019 | Resolution Quarterly
Jeffrey Pugh and Karen Ross

Conventional wisdom holds that international education builds cross-cultural capacity, and evaluations of peacebuilding interventions point to significant impacts. Yet, little scholarship links these fields or…

Mainstreaming Failure or a Small Measure of Success? Observations from a Large-Scale PCIA in Post-War Sri Lanka

2014 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Simona Achitei

In May 2009, controversies emerged over Sri Lanka’s human rights record in the last stages of the 27-year civil war between the Government of Sri…

Levels of Conflict Over WIldlife: Understanding and Addressing the Right Problem

2020 | Conservation Science and Practice
Alexandra Zimmermann, Brian McQuinn, and David W. Macdonald

Human–wildlife conflicts are complex and defy simple explanations and solu-tions. The fields of conflict analysis and peacebuilding offer insights into theintensity, intractability, and possible approaches…

International Peacebuilding Goes Local: Analysing Lederach's Conflict Transformation Theory and its Ambivalent Encounter with 20 Years of Practice

2012 | Peacebuilding
Thania Paffenholz

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…

Integrating Knowledge Exchange and the Assessment of Dryland Management Alternatives -- A Learning-Centered Participatory Approach

2017 | Journal of Environmental Management
Susana Bautista, Joan Llovet, Anahi Ocampo-Melfar, Alberto Vilagrosa, Angeles G. Mayor, Cristina Murias, V. R. Vallejo, and Barron J. Orr

The adoption of sustainable land management strategies and practices that respond to current climate and human pressures requires both assessment tools that can lead to…

Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation: A Whole-of-Field Approach

2011 | United States Institute of Peace
Andrew Blum

In May 2010, the Alliance for Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace launched the Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. Over the course of…

Impact and Outcomes: The Ethical Perils of Distancing in Peacebuilding Grant Solicitation

2016 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Reina Neufeldt

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…

ICTs for Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes

2014 | Search for Common Ground
Vanessa Corlazzoli and J. White

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…

How Can Research Contribute to Peacebuilding?

2014 | University of York
Kenneth Bush and Colleen Duggan

How do we know whether or not research contributes to peacebuilding? And, what kind of positive or negative impacts may research have? These two questions…

Help or Hinrance? Results-Orientation in Conflict-Affected Situations

2013 | Swiss Peace
Stefan Bachtold, Roland Dittli, and Sylvia Servaes

Results-orientation, impact assessment, and value for money have been creating a growing buzz in the fields of international cooperation and peacebuilding for the last few…

Evaluation of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme

2016 | United Nations Environment Programme
Emery Brusset

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

2016 | Uganda Technology and Management University
Joseylee S Kasule

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.…

Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development

2018 | New Directions for Evaluation
Thomas Archibald, Guy Sharrock, Jane Buckley, and Stacey Young

International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…

Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice

2010 | Oxford University Press
Hal Culbertson

An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…

Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes

2002 | Contemporary Justice Review
Harry Mika

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…

Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be

2011 | Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management
Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church

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…

Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation

1998 | Environmental Management
Marc Hockings

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…

Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation

2005 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Larissa A. Fast and Reina C. Neufeldt

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…

Did Human Security Forget the Humans? Critically Assessing Evaluations of Interventions With A Human Security Dimension in Sri Lanka

2020 | Conflict, Security, and Development
Albie Sharpe, Husna Razee, and Anthony B. Zwi

During the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2006, a number of countries provided overseas development aid under the aegis of human security…

Contested Boundaries: NGOs and Civil–military Relations in Afghanistan

2013 | Central Asian Survey
Jonathan Goodhand

In recent years there has been a growing focus in academic and policy circles on the changing roles of military and civilian actors in the…

Conflict Transformation and Civil Society: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh

2016 | Europe-Asia Studies
Vincenc Kopecek, Tomas Hoch, and Vladimir Baar

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…

Community Governance and Peacebuilding in Nepal

2015 | Rural Society
Keshav K Acharya

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…

Community Defined Measures of Success and Inclusive Research in Peacebuilding

2018 | Proceedings of the African Futures Conference
Ella Duncan and Carlotta Fassiotti

Participatory research is a tool for community inclusion in peace and development programs. Participation is a popularly promoted concept, but rarely implemented in research. Search…

Collaborative Governance and Conflict Management: Lessons Learned and Good Practices from a Case Study in the Amazon Basin

2019 | Society and Natural Resources
Joshua Fisher, Hannah Stutzman, Mariana Vedoveto, Debora Delgado, Ramon Rivero, Walter Quertehuari Dariquebe, Luis Seclén Contreras, Tamia Souto, Alexandra Harden, and Sophia Rhee

Given the linkages between natural resources and social conflicts, evidence increasingly shows that successful natural resource management requires conflict mitigation and prevention. However, there may…

Civil Society Organizations and Evaluation: Lessons from Africa

2007 | European Evaluation Soiety
Scott G. Chaplowe, Ruth B. Engo-Tjega

The past two decades have seen a drastic increase in the role and expectations of civil society organizations (CSOs) in international development, placing greater demands…