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A. Managing a large quantity of data is critical for successfully implementing and monitoring
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs. The DDR program
established by the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) following the end of Liberia’s civil war in 2003,
however, did not incorporate an information management system from the beginning, resulting in
double registration of ex-combatants and violence in the capital… [Read More ...]
B. As part of the United States Government (USG)'s response to the Syrian conflict, Civil Affairs
Soldiers from the 92nd CA Battalion formed a Knowledge Management Team to support the USG
Syria Transition Assistance Response Team in Turkey. This team filled a critical gap in information
sharing between the interagency and partner nations/organizations... [Read More ...]
C. Lack of recruitment of woman field specialists compromises the implementation of monitoring,
evaluation, and research tools, namely, household surveys, and assessments conducted through
Key Informant Interviews. In Syria, the sensitivity of the U.S. role in supporting anti-Regime
entities requires a stringency that complicates the options for recruiting local field specialists and
has meant that hiring women is especially challenging… [Read More ...]
D. In areas of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, local nationals who work for foreign contractors
and partners are often targeted for their association with a foreign entity. In particular, employees
of USG contractors and partners are at especially high risk… [Read More ...]
E. Female Engagement Teams (FETs) were established by International Security Assistance Force in
Afghanistan in 2009 to influence Afghan women as part of counter-insurgency strategy. However,
some FETs in southern Afghanistan from 2010 to early 2012 reported many of their engagements
as successes without culturally-appropriate indicators to evaluate whether or not there were
substantive outcomes to their varied activities... [Read More ...]
F. The Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute collaborated with the U.S. Institute of Peace
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a metrics framework for Measuring Progress in
Conflict Environments (MPICE). The first major use of this framework was in Haiti for the Haiti
Stabilization Initiative… [Read More ...]
G. As part of a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded research grant, the non-
governmental organization Mercy Corps implemented monitoring and evaluation in three of their
programs in Uganda, Indonesia, and Ethiopia, in order to examine the relationship between
economic development and stability… [Read More ...]
H. The independent Finnish organization Conflict Management Initiative utilizes an Internal Review
as part of its M&E processes in order to create space for organizational reflection. This review
process could be beneficial for any organization involved in conflict intervention because it
cultivates self-awareness of how the organization affects the conflict system… [Read More ...]
I. An open-source knowledge platform was created by several international non-governmental
organizations to provide thousands of practitioners with best practices and lessons learned on
Design, Monitoring & Evaluation for Peace… [Read More ...]
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