Case Study

This self-guided modular curriculum breaks the project cycle down into easily manageable stages as they relate to the design, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding projects and programs. The modules are meant to enable peacebuilders to learn simple, practical, and effective tools to design high quality programs and follow them up with rigorous monitoring and evaluation....

The final scope of this case study is to monitor the gradual change in perception, behavior and approach towards conflict resolution methods, their application and the level of engagement between the school associations and their respective local communities. ...

One of the main focus of this case study is to observe the participation of women amongst the Angolan School Parliament as well as their active interaction within it. ...

The goal of this case study is to analyse in depth the impact of Search for Common Ground's capacity building trainings on new emerging practices of Zanzibar radio stations. ...

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....

In January 2012, Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Nepal finished a project called Women Building Community Peace in Eastern Terai. Funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), this project’s overall goal was to strengthen the role of women and girls in the Eastern Terai to be a positive force for peacebuilding at the local level....

This one-page document gives a high-level overview of what we have found most successful in our programs.   ...

The Institute for Conflict Research, based in Belfast, has performed independent evaluations of PeacePlayers International's local program for several years. In this, their most recent evaluation, they examine the way the organization's programming has evolved over the years to offer a more comprehensive approach to peacebuilding and youth development in Belfast. ...

This evaluation was commissioned by a Steering Committee of bilateral cooperation donors and aid agencies, to review conflict prevention and peacebuilding policies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Drawing on examples from a portfolio of projects funded by Steering Committee members, the evaluation is designed to provide general conclusions relevant to all international interventions in the eastern DRC. A team of fifteen consultants representing eight nationalities was deployed to design and carry out the evaluation over a period of twelve months between 2009-2010....

  The struggle against poverty is political and economic, but it is also a cultural struggle. Poverty is centrally related to voice, participation in public discourse, and access to the public sphere. This perspective requires a new approach from policymakers who need to understand poverty as a matter not only of economic factors, but also of voice and agency....

The importance of social accountability for development effectiveness has increasingly been acknowledged in recent years. This Trainer’s Guide focuses on the role of communication techniques and approaches for generating genuine citizen demand for accountability. Communication campaigns can motivate and activate citizens to stand up and hold their government accountable....

Over the last decade counterterrorism experts working in or outside of government have learned a valuable lesson: going after terrorists is necessary but not sufficient. Programmes to prevent people from becoming terrorists in the first place are also vital, but their effects are not well understood....

This report brings together the results of a research project on the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of security system reform (SSR) programmes. It focuses particularly on donor-supported SSR programmes, but with reference throughout to local ownership of and capacity for M&E activities. ...

This article describes a participative ranking methodology for identifying local understanding of reintegration and adjustment of potential value in programme planning and evaluation. It was applied in the context of girls formerly associated with fighting forces in Sierra Leone....

The Africa Program for Education Impact Evaluation seeks to build in-country capacity to develop and implement rigorous evaluation of policy interventions to improve schooling outcomes, particularly students’ learning achievement. The objective is to provide policy makers with solid evidence to shape education programs and position them to deliver results on the ground....

  1. Defining Concepts and Techniques for Impact Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2. Key Steps in Designing and Implementing Impact Evaluations ....

This case study looks at the Ubon Institute for Skill Development (UBISD), with which Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) implemented a technical cooperation project for five years beginning in 1988. UBISD is a Thai government facility in northeastern Thailand for training young people in various vocational skills....

Mercy Corps recently undertook a study to explore the links between conflict and drought resilience among pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia. The research provides strong evidence of the contributions of Mercy Corps peacebuilding programming to pastoralists’ abilities to productively cope with and adapt to the recent drought....

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. ...

Programs to actively support young people's employment prospects have existed for decades in industrialized countries; however, they are relatively new in developing nations. In a broad sense, youth livelihood interventions support young people's means to earn a living, and include training, public service, youth entrepreneurship, and financial services....