Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17912584/impact-evaluation-conflict-prevention-peacebuilding-interventions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15856 |
| Summary: | The international community is paying
increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's
population that lives in fragile and conflict affected
settings, acknowledging that these settings represent
daunting development challenges. To deliver better results
on the ground, it is necessary to improve the understanding
of the impacts and effectiveness of development
interventions operating in contexts of conflict and
fragility. This paper argues that it is both possible and
important to carry out impact evaluations even in settings
of violent conflict, and it presents some examples from a
collection of impact evaluations of conflict prevention and
peacebuilding interventions. The paper examines the
practices of impact evaluators in the peacebuilding sector
to see how they address evaluation design, data collection,
and conflict analysis. Finally, it argues that such
evaluations are crucial for testing assumptions about how
development interventions affect change -- the so-called
"theory of change" -- which is important for
understanding the results on the ground. |
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