Learning and Doing with DME for Peace

This review is the result of a desire to reflect on and learn from the ongoing activities of the DME for Peace project, a knowledge sharing platform focused on best practice for Peacebuilding M&E, and was carried out as a part of the Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC) grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Carnegie). Between March 1, 2013 and March 31, 2015, the DME for Peace project of Search for Common Ground (SFCG) implemented activities as a part of the PEC, led by the grant prime Alliance for Peacebuilding (AFP). This review examines the period from March 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014; this period covers the entirety of the grant barring the final quarter which was ongoing during the time of this Review.

The overall goal of the PEC is to expand the current understanding of evaluation practices in the peacebuilding community and facilitate field-wide change by developing methodological rigor in peacebuilding evaluation, promoting shared learning and transparency, and encouraging the use of evidence to inform policy. DME for Peace and its associated activities focused on the PEC outcome of Improving the Culture of Evaluation and Shared Learning. To develop a field-wide culture of transparency, open inquiry, and shared learning from both successes and failures for the improvement of peacebuilding practices and impact, DME for Peace continued to develop as a hub for practitioners, evaluators and academics to share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor and evaluate peacebuilding programs. The objective of the Review was to examine the effectiveness and relevance of DME for Peace project activities in increasing shared knowledge of Peacebuilding M&E.

This entry was posted in Reports, Resources and tagged ILT, United States, USA Evaluations on August 24, 2015.

CCR Evaluation

Our first Congressional Leadership program addressing race was completed in September, 2012 and resulted in four trips to districts across the US with Members of Congress, as well as one pilgrimage to Alabama and many DC events. The outcomes of those trips and events has been compiled into a final evaluation and we are currently using this evaluation to improve our current Congressional Leadership program (CLI).

This entry was posted in Evaluations, Resources and tagged USA Evaluations on February 5, 2014.