Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Three of the most important reasons for developing a good Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning system for any peacebuilding program is that it is the way to measure the impact of our interventions, it helps to create a learning environment among the team and with those with whom we work and it ensures effective operations. The following websites specifically deal with and/or offer resources for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, some general M,E&L tools and some specific to peacebuilding.

  • Eirene Peacebuilding Database™
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    The Eirene Peacebuilding Database™ is a comprehensive collection of 3,381 indicators from 2,008 publicly available peacebuilding resources.

    It is the culmination of nearly two years of work to search, catalog, curate, and share peacebuilding key indicators that will help you all better assess your work and measure impact. It puts forward program approaches, indicators, and measures currently being used in peacebuilding across seven program areas: Social Cohesion; Governance; Violence Reduction; Dispute Resolution; Perceptions of Safety & Security; Resilience; and Trust.

  • How to evaluate innovative peacebuilding: the experience of Smart Peace
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    Smart Peace is an initiative of Conciliation Resources.

    Smart Peace has launched a series of guides introducing the various Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning methods utilized over the course of this ground-breaking project on innovative peacebuilding.

  • International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
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    The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is a global leader in funding, producing, quality assuring and synthesising rigorous evidence. We support studies and reviews that examine what works, for whom, why and at what cost in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs). We are also a global advocate for the generation and use of quality evidence in development decision-making.

    In 2020 they published Building peaceful societies: an evidence gap map.

  • Everyday Peace Indicators
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    The Everyday Peace Indicators research approach investigates alternative, bottom-up indicators of peace and how such bottom-up information can be meaningfully integrated into policy processes. The approach employs an inductive, participatory approach to the generation of indicators in order to measure difficult-to-measure concepts such as peace. Taking its cue from studies in sustainable development, the research approach asks community members to identify their own measures of peace. The EPI approach is based on the premise that local communities are best placed to identify changes in their own circumstances, rather than relying on external ‘experts’ to identify indicators for them.

  • MERL for Peacebuilding Programs – Handbook
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    Introduction to Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning (MERL) concepts with examples for peacebuilding and conflict resolution programs. This handbook can be used to train HQ staff, local staff or partner organizations in MERL. Each chapter ends with a learning exercise.

  • Results-Based Management Websites
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    This site reviews Results-Based Management handbooks, RBM guides, tools and websites.