HOW INSIDER MEDIATORS ARE BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES IN “THE WORLD’S WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS” In Yemen, nearly 24 million people are in need of humanitarian support or urgent protection. Years...
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Violence against children in Tanzania – Does it affect child education?
Despite Tanzania's efforts to end child violence, awareness on the prevention and strategies are generally inadequate. Violence against children has revealed a profound impact on core aspects of...
Outcome Harvesting: Best Practices for Learning & Reflection
Outcome harvesting is an evaluation approach that allows us to retrospectively identify emergent impact by collecting examples of what has changed in "behavior writ large" (actions, relationships,...
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Outcome Harvesting: More than a Contingency Plan
Chhavi Kotwani, Search for Common Ground In peacebuilding, we often face complex settings where the context continues to evolve, the outcomes of our interventions are not defined at the outset, or...
#NguvuPamoja – Incentivising Digital Peacebuilding in Kenya
Fredrick Ogenga, Ph.D While presenting a M&E Thursday Talk webinar called “Understanding Online Polarization in Kenya-A Digital Peacebuilding Perspective” a couple of weeks ago, the audience raised...
How local Non-Government Organizations in Rwanda (NGOs) are affected by COVID 19?
Celestin Nsengiyumva Since the COVID19 first appeared in China, it was quickly affecting the entire life across the globe. Heath systems, businesses, banking, infrastructures, tourisms, education,...
The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium: Improved Learning and Evaluation for Better Peacebuilding
The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC) is a field-wide effort to address the unique challenges of measuring results and learning from peacebuilding programs. The consortium includes the...
In a World of War, Funders Need Better Guidance on How to Promote Peace
Author, Copyright Holder: Milt Lauenstein This blog was originally published on Inside Philanthropy and published on DME for Peace with the permission of the author. Read the original post here (link...
5 Tips to Ensure Inclusivity is a Cornerstone of the Program Design Process
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16: “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive...
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Violence Reduction - Evidence from around the world
The peacebuilding, development, and human rights fields have engineered powerful, effective tools to reduce violence, spanning the full conflict spectrum from prevention through reconstruction. ...
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Allowing Children to Measure and Report on their Perceived Level of Safety within their Households, Schools and Communities
In the humanitarian sector children are often simply seen as the recipients of assistance designed by others, rather than as agents of change who can help shape how their needs are responded to. In...
Qualitative data as a tool for conflict sensitivity: lessons from Burundi
Author, Copyright Holder: Ella Duncan From 1993 to 2006, an estimated 300,000 Burundians lost their lives to civil war and violent conflict. Reconciliation and rebuilding processes have been arduous,...
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The Future of Religious Freedom in Iraq and Syria: Recommendations from Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Last week, the Religious Freedom Project’s conference at Georgetown University, Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under the Islamic State, allowed Christian, Yazidi, Kakai and Turkmen...
Learning from youth leadership in peacebuilding
Author, Copyright Holder: Rainah Umlauf Following the DC launch of UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on youth, peace and security last(link is external) month, the Washington Network on Children in...
What do we share? Promoting collaboration in peacebuilding & development
In May 2016, in Bujumbura, Burundi, a group of organizations from different sectors came together to answer the question: what do we share? The answer: we share a lot! Across sectors, and in one of...
"The conflict itself has a much more complex reality on the ground"
Author, Copyright Holder: Janice Freeman Three years ago, a political crisis erupted between the government of South Sudan and opposition forces. It quickly escalated into a civil war. With 50,000...
Communicating the Value of Evaluation in Interreligious Peacebuilding
Author, Copyright Holder: Lila O'Brien-Milne The success of an evaluation hinges upon the attitude towards evaluative learning in the community in question in many ways - if an evaluation is not seen...
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Gender Empowerment in Interreligious Peacebuilding Through DM&E
by Lila O'Brien-Milne One element common to violent religious extremist movements of all faiths is advocating for strict adherence to traditional gender roles that tend to disempower women. However,...
Lessons from the Field: Centre Résolution Conflits & Peace Direct's experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Created By dmeforpeace - 03/22/2016 Author, Copyright Holder: Jared Wright Centre Résolution Conflits (CRC) — a local peacebuilding organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — has been...
‘Building bridges: Use of evaluation for decision making and policy influence’: The Evaluation Conclave 2015 in Kathmandu
At the end of 2015 I was fortunate to take part in the The Community of Evaluators' – South Asia (CoE-SA) 3rd Evaluation Conclave in Kathmandu. The Conclave, co-organized with EvalPartners and the...