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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Main Authors:	Gaarder, Marie, Annan, Jeannie
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	BENEFICIARIES CIVIC EDUCATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONFLICT CONFLICT PREVENTION CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONFLICTS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DATA COLLECTION METHODS DEMOBILIZATION DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DISARMAMENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRUG ETHNIC DIVERSITY EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATORS EX- COMBATANTS EX-COMBATANT EX-COMBATANTS EXCOMBATANTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS EXPERIMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATIONS EXPERIMENTS FLEXIBILITY GENOCIDE HUMAN RIGHTS IFC IMPACT EVALUATION INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LEARNING METHODOLOGIES METHODOLOGY NATIONS NEGOTIATION NGO PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PEACE PEACE RESEARCH PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPERS POLARIZATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAMS QUALITATIVE DATA REBELS RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION RELIABILITY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIO SCIENCES SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL REINTEGRATION SUPERPOWER SURVEY DATA TARGETING TECHNIQUES UNIVERSITIES VALIDITY VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT WAR WORLD DEVELOPMENT fragile states quasi-experimental design encouragement design conflict analysis
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17912584/impact-evaluation-conflict-prevention-peacebuilding-interventions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15856

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spelling	okr-10986-158562021-04-23T14:03:23Z Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions Gaarder, Marie Annan, Jeannie BENEFICIARIES CIVIC EDUCATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONFLICT CONFLICT PREVENTION CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONFLICTS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DATA COLLECTION METHODS DEMOBILIZATION DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DISARMAMENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRUG ETHNIC DIVERSITY EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATORS EX- COMBATANTS EX-COMBATANT EX-COMBATANTS EXCOMBATANTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS EXPERIMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATIONS EXPERIMENTS FLEXIBILITY GENOCIDE HUMAN RIGHTS IFC IMPACT EVALUATION INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LEARNING METHODOLOGIES METHODOLOGY NATIONS NEGOTIATION NGO PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PEACE PEACE RESEARCH PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPERS POLARIZATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAMS QUALITATIVE DATA REBELS RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION RELIABILITY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIO SCIENCES SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL REINTEGRATION SUPERPOWER SURVEY DATA TARGETING TECHNIQUES UNIVERSITIES VALIDITY VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT WAR WORLD DEVELOPMENT fragile states quasi-experimental design encouragement design conflict analysis 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. 2013-09-26T15:36:16Z 2013-09-26T15:36:16Z 2013-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17912584/impact-evaluation-conflict-prevention-peacebuilding-interventions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15856 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6496 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	BENEFICIARIES CIVIC EDUCATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONFLICT CONFLICT PREVENTION CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONFLICTS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DATA COLLECTION METHODS DEMOBILIZATION DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DISARMAMENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRUG ETHNIC DIVERSITY EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATORS EX- COMBATANTS EX-COMBATANT EX-COMBATANTS EXCOMBATANTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS EXPERIMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATIONS EXPERIMENTS FLEXIBILITY GENOCIDE HUMAN RIGHTS IFC IMPACT EVALUATION INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LEARNING METHODOLOGIES METHODOLOGY NATIONS NEGOTIATION NGO PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PEACE PEACE RESEARCH PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPERS POLARIZATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAMS QUALITATIVE DATA REBELS RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION RELIABILITY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIO SCIENCES SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL REINTEGRATION SUPERPOWER SURVEY DATA TARGETING TECHNIQUES UNIVERSITIES VALIDITY VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT WAR WORLD DEVELOPMENT fragile states quasi-experimental design encouragement design conflict analysis
spellingShingle	BENEFICIARIES CIVIC EDUCATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONFLICT CONFLICT PREVENTION CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONFLICTS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DATA COLLECTION METHODS DEMOBILIZATION DEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DISARMAMENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRUG ETHNIC DIVERSITY EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION RESULTS EVALUATORS EX- COMBATANTS EX-COMBATANT EX-COMBATANTS EXCOMBATANTS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS EXPERIMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATIONS EXPERIMENTS FLEXIBILITY GENOCIDE HUMAN RIGHTS IFC IMPACT EVALUATION INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LEARNING METHODOLOGIES METHODOLOGY NATIONS NEGOTIATION NGO PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PEACE PEACE RESEARCH PEACEBUILDING PEACEKEEPERS POLARIZATION PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAMS QUALITATIVE DATA REBELS RECONCILIATION RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION RELIABILITY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIO SCIENCES SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL REINTEGRATION SUPERPOWER SURVEY DATA TARGETING TECHNIQUES UNIVERSITIES VALIDITY VICTIMS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT WAR WORLD DEVELOPMENT fragile states quasi-experimental design encouragement design conflict analysis Gaarder, Marie Annan, Jeannie Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
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description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Gaarder, Marie Annan, Jeannie
author_facet	Gaarder, Marie Annan, Jeannie
author_sort	Gaarder, Marie
title	Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
title_short	Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
title_full	Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
title_fullStr	Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
title_full_unstemmed	Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
title_sort	impact evaluation of conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2013
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17912584/impact-evaluation-conflict-prevention-peacebuilding-interventions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15856
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