Relevance to Stakeholders

  The PCTR is a five-day intensive program which provides experts, practitioners and policy makers with a forum for reflection and targeted, relevant professional development in a dynamic and stimulating environment.  Given the issues it addresses, it is also relevant for those working in political, gender, security, human rights, development, and humanitarian fields, donors, and diplomats, working in areas affected or threatened by war and armed conflict or in post-war situations. ...

Evaluation criteria and standards evolve through theory, practice, reflection, discussion, research, and meta-evaluation. This paper strives to identify processes that can be employed to achieve credible and useful evaluation findings about relevance.   ...

  The Gender and SSR toolkit is an initial response to the need for information and analysis on gender and SSR. It is designed to provide policymakers and practitioners with a practical introduction to why gender issues are important in SSR and what can be done to integrate them. ...

A stakeholder is a person who has something to gain or lose through the outcomes of a planning process of project. In many circles these are called interest groups and they can have a powerful bearing on the outcomes of political processes....

Stakeholder analysis is a process of systematically gathering and analyzing qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account when developing and/or implementing a policy or program.  Stakeholder analysis yields useful and accurate information about those persons and organizations that have an interest in your policy or program....

  This paper reports on an advanced research workshop that took place in April 2007 on Evaluation of Community based Psychosocial Programmes in Areas A¡ected by War and Terrorism. The workshop was sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The three day workshop was set up to bring together a wide range of stakeholders in psychosocial programmes in areas affected by war and terrorism from providers of those programmes.The focus of the workshop was programme evaluation and the methodology adopted by its organisers....

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

This tip sheet on gender and peacebuilding provides specific guidelines on how to systematically integrate gender aspects (i.e. the socially determined roles attributed to women and men) in programme strategy, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also outlines thematic points of engagement for mainstreaming gender considerations throughout the conflict cycle....

In the light of such unintended and negative effects of humanitarian aid, the future goals of assistance were formulated with modesty: to do some good or – at least – to Do No Harm when offering assistance to areas in crisis....

This conflict analysis Tip Sheet1 summarizes seven tools that can be used to assess different characteristics of a conflict in a structured way. It focuses our attention on particular aspects of a conflict, to bring order into a confused conflict perception....

The Tip Sheets (section three) of this handbook are designed to link SDC’s peacebuilding policy and the ten principles (section one) with the CSPM instrument (section two). While the CSPM leads you stepby- step through the Programme Cycle Management (PCM) with procedural indications, the Tip Sheets provide both methodological as well as thematic guidance....

The Capacity Assessment Methodology User’s Guide provides UNDP and other development practitioners with an overview of UNDP’s approach to Capacity Development and Capacity Assessment and a step-by-step guide to conducting a capacity assessment using UNDP’s “default” Capacity Assessment Framework and Supporting Tool. ...

This guide describes a five-step process for engaging stakeholders in developing evaluationquestions, and includes four worksheets and a case example to further facilitate the planningand implementation of your stakeholder engagement process. ...

This book draws on the work of thinkers and doers throughout the world who have grappled with the challenge of planning complex institutions, especially health systems and development projects. Their problem: Conventional planning methods often do not work....

This publication is aimed at organizations, community groups, students and academics who wish to use MSC to help monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects. It is a form of particpatory monitoring and evaluation which collects stories of significant change to capture project impacts. ...

This paper shares the first results of an ongoing collaborative action research whereby, ten development organizations joined hands to explore a diverse mix of PME approaches with the aim of dealing more effectively with complex processes of social change....

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. ...

Development agencies are consistently required to improve their performance, in terms not only of project outcomes, but also of the quality of their programming and their institutional capacity. In a very practical sense, evaluations are now perceived as learning opportunities....

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....

These modules focus on two of the major challenges in evaluation: getting an answer to the question about whether the program has an effect, and whether the evaluation results are useful to people involved in the program. ...