A conflict-specific framework has been developed to integrate the different aspects of an intervention that can be evaluated. It serves both to provide a platform for the field’s thinking about current evaluations and to highlight gaps in the evaluation process requiring further research and refinement. The framework is structured around three themes, each of which has an essential question to guide thinking.
Goals and Assumptions explores the use of conflict analysis when planning an intervention and the theoretical and ideological basis of an organisation’s strategy. This theme asks: Why and how is the agency conducting this particular intervention?
Process Accountability assesses the implementation of an intervention from the perspectives of management, cost-accountability and process. This theme asks: How was the intervention operationalised?
Range of Results considers the results achieved through the intervention, both in the immediate term and with respect to the longer and broader impact on society. This theme asks: What were the short and long-term results of the intervention?
Beyond these themes, two additional concepts have been expanded to provide typologies by which one can discuss ideas essential to the evaluation of conflict intervention. The first, Focus of Change (p.34), addresses what an interaction is seeking to influence, while the second, Tiers of Influence (p.38), considers who an intervention is targeting.
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