A meeting on "Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: What have we learned?" was hosted by Norway 16-17 February 2011. This joint workshop was attended by some 65 participants from the DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EVALNET) and the International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), together with other policy experts and evaluators, and took stock of lessons from the testing phase.

The draft guidance was used to evaluate conflict prevention and peacebuilding programmes in a number of conflict-affected and fragile countries. Major joint evaluations were conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka, and the guidance was used by donors, country stakeholders and NGOs to inform various other reviews and evaluation work.

At the workshop we discussed the wealth of policy and evaluation lessons coming from these experiences and decided on the way forward for revising and updating the guidance based on these experiences. More about this work

Agenda: Workshop Agenda 

Documents and Presentations:

DAY ONE

Opening session

• Key Developments on the Conflict and Fragility Agenda (INCAF Secretariat)
•  OECD Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding 
  (Printed copies in English and French will be available at the workshop)
• Summary Record, Bern Meeting on Application of the Draft Guidance, January 2008

Sessions 1-2. Policy Lessons

Southern Sudan

• Aiding the Peace: A Multi-donor Evaluation of Support to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities in Southern Sudan 2005-2010 (Evaluation Report, 2011)
• Policy Brief: Aiding the Peace in Southern Sudan (2011)
• Southern Sudan Policy Summary (PowerPoint)

 

Sri Lanka

• Donor-Supported Activities in Conflict-Sensitive Development and Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka (Evaluation Report, 2009)
• Evaluation of Donor Activities in Support of Conflict-Sensitive Development and Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka (PowerPoint) 

 

German Civil Peace Service

• Evaluation: The German Civil Peace Service (PowerPoint)

 

Afghanistan

• Swedish Peacebuilding: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan (PowerPoint, FOI, 2009)

 

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Joint Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo  (PowerPoint)

 

Haiti

• Evaluation of Norwegian Support to Peacebuilding in Haiti (Evaluation Report, Norad, 2009) 
• Policy Lessons from the Evaluation of Norwegian Support to Peacebuilding in Haiti 1998- 2008 (PowerPoint)
• Haiti: Evaluative Lessons

Session 3. Challenges and lessons

Context as starting point 

• Working with the grain to change the grain: Beyond the MDGs  (Document)
• Taking Context as a Starting Point (Phil Vernon, PowerPoint)

 

Whole of Government Engagement

• Room document 5  (Document for discussion, Bennett)
• Norway’s Whole-of-Government Approach and its Engagement with Afghanistan Report and Policy Brief
• U.K. Whole of Government: Afghanistan Country Programme Evaluation (DFID 2009)

 

Ownership and alignment

• Statebuilding, ownership and legitimacy: the dilemmas and contradictions of external state building (Document for discussion, Eriksen)
• The Legitimacy of the State in Fragile Situations (Document for discussion, Norad)
• Political Economy Analysis with a Legitimacy Twist (For Reference)

 

DAY TWO

Session 4. Evaluative Lessons