Reflection Process

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....

Drawing on the findings of RPP regarding factors that contribute to effectiveness and impacts of peacebuilding, and on the experience of practitioners, this Working Paper offers an approach to reviewing program quality that addresses organizational needs for feedback, assessment and learning short of a formal evaluation.  In Section 2, this Working Paper offers some general introductory comments on evaluation in peacebuilding....

In efforts to measure empowerment, do indicators mean what they are supposed to mean? Are the values they reflect appropriate? This paper examines the measurement of three dimensions of empowerment: resources (the conditions under which choices are made); agency (the process by which choices are made); and achievements (the outcomes of choices)....

In this interview, Sharon Morris, Director of the Youth & Conflict Division at Mercy Corps, reflects on recent progress and achievements made in the advancement of peacebuilding design, monitoring and evaluation. She praises the maturation thus far of peacebuilding DM&E, and implores practitioners to have more faith and confidence that our approaches will be validated by the evidence collected through evaluation....

This document walks through exercises to reflect on thought processes around ambiguity, turbulent environments, and adaptive strategies. ...

Sharing Results is Part 10 in a ten part series called How to Preform Evaluations from Canadian International Development Agnecy. This guide looks at sharing results from two perspcetives. ...

When we talk about the current state of DM&E in the peacebuilding field, we often lament the fact that we do not have an established evidence base of what works, and that our methodological approaches are still not that sophisticated compared with other disciplines such as education and health....

A product of the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the day-long Evidence Summit, which was held in December 2011 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, and this report were made possible in part thanks to support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and USIP....

When we talk about the current state of DM&E in the peacebuilding field, we often lament the fact that we do not have an established evidence base of what works, and that our methodological approaches are still not that sophisticated compared with other disciplines such as education and health....

This glossary defines and discusses 20 core terms related to conflict transformation in the work of the Berghof Foundation. ...

Outcome Mapping recognizes that development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environment. The originality of this approach lies in its shift away from assessing the products of a program to focus on changes in behaviour, relationships, actions, and activities in the people, groups, and organizations it works with directly....

This book is about the effectiveness of peace practice. ...

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 ...

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....

This report examines the broader utility of social media for the adoption of health promoting and protective behaviours. ...

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 Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme has for almost a decade undertaken research on the role of knowledge in policy processes, which it has endeavoured to translate into practical advice. This paper reflects on some of this work managing capacity development processes and draw implications for future practice. ...

How do you develop your outcome mapping progress markers? Or what guides you in developing related indicators? Here is a paper - “A Complementary Approach to Developing Progress Markers” – that is based on the analysis of 32 sets of progress markers from 13 different Outcome mapping projects in Africa; Latin America; South and South-East Asia and Canada. ...

This paper is from the Reflection Series emerging from the ECDPM Study on Capacity, Performance and Change. The paper responds to one of the general study’s main findings, which is that current monitoring and evaluating (M&E) practices do not fully recognise the combination of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ characteristics that make up effective capacity....

Search for Common Ground has been working in Nepal since February 2006 with the mission to transform the way the world deals with conflict: away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. With a multi-pronged program to support the peace process, SFCG combines media with community peacebuilding work that translates into the production of two nationally and 17 locally broadcast radio programs and community-based activities with youth, children and other key actors in the peace process. ...