Mapping

Dear Colleagues/Experts,       The International Peace and Development Training Center (IPDTC) is inviting expert professionals, policy makers and practitioners for its upcoming Autumn Programs. The programmes are designed for UN agencies, governments and national and international organisations....

The general aims and specific objectives of participatory mapping initiatives vary significantly. This variation is directly related to the end-use to which these maps will be put, which in turn is influenced by the audience that will view and make decisions about the content of these maps....

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in the rural areas of developing countries. Working with poor rural people, governments, donors, NGOs and many other partners, IFAD focuses on country-specific solutions to empower poor rural women and men to achieve higher incomes and improved food security....

Media development seeks to support and promote a pluralistic, editorially independent and financially sustainable media sector. An independent media sector buttresses key governance goals such as voice, accountability, and transparency -- not through dissemination of messages about these issues, but through its very existence....

Acclaimed  by  policy  makers  and  practitioners  from  national  and international  organizations  and  governments  as  one  of  the  best  programs  of  its  kind  in  the world, The PCTR program is a five-day intensive training which provides middle and senior-level experts with  a  forum  for  reflection  and  professional  development  in  a  dynamic  and  stimulating environment ...

The goal of this handbook is to help NGO staff, and particularly, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff to move beyond using network as a metaphor and understand how to measure and map them. More specifically, this handbook is designed to help NGO staff accomplish the following objectives: (a) understand what network analysis is, (b) how to collect network data, (c) how to create visual maps of the network, and (d) how to analyze the network data for program/project development or evaluation. ...

This study aims to contribute to the collective understanding of how development can play a role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. It brings together diverse strands of current thought on the link between development on the one hand and conflict prevention and peacebuilding on the other....

Conflict assessments are diagnostic tools that are designed to help Missions: 1) identify and prioritize the causes and consequences of violence and instability that are most important in a given country context; 2) understand how existing developmentprograms interact with these factors; and 3) determine where development and humanitarian assistance can most effectively support local efforts to manage conflict and build peace. Conflict assessments are meant to provide a broad overview of destabilizing patterns and trends in a society....