http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5338 2013-05-19T03:07:15Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5349 METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSING UNITED NATIONS GENDER MAINSTREAMING POLICIES IN KOSOVO Sharapov, Kiril 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5348 RESOURCES JPD 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5347 Towards Better Policy and Programme Work in Conflict Zones: Introducing the ‘Aid for Peace’ Approach Paffenholz, Thania; Reychler, Luc This article presents the newly developed ‘Aid for Peace’ approach. This approach facilitates the planning and evaluation of peacebuilding, development and humanitarian policies and programmes, in latent or manifest violent conflict or in the aftermath of a violent conflict or war. The ‘Aid for Peace’ framework consists of four parts that focus on the needs for peacebuilding in a given country or area. It tailors the intervention’s objectives and activities towards these needs through identifying its peacebuilding relevance, and develops or evaluates peace and conflict results chains and indicators for understanding its effects on conflict and peacebuilding. Based on the same methodological framework, the approach provides separate guides for planning and evaluating peace and aid policies and programmes. 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5346 Reviving Agriculture in the Aftermath of Violent Conflict: A Review of Experience Muscat, Robert Promoting post-conflict recovery of agriculture differs significantly from promoting development of an agriculture sector in ‘normal’ circumstances. The large body of literature on post-conflict recovery has yet to cover systematically the experience of efforts to revive the production sectors of an economy. Based on a selected review of project and programme materials, this article draws together evaluations and lessons learned from many countries’ post-conflict experiences in agriculture.1 It gives attention to the important links between this experience and resumption of long-term development, and with constraints imposed by the need to sustain peace. It is more difficult to rehabilitate agriculture in a post-conflict setting than it is to promote agricultural development under ‘normal’ conditions, that is, conditions of peace and security where violence is limited to ‘ordinary’ crime and banditry. This article explains why this is the case and shares some lessons learned from aid agency experience. Although a substantial body of literature focuses on post-conflict recovery, it does not differentiate between diverse experiences at the sectoral level. 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5345 The PEACE II Programme in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties: A ‘Distinctive’ Development Programme? Lynch, Catherine This paper evaluates the usefulness of the ‘distinctiveness criteria’ in directing European Union structural funds in Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland towards peacebuilding goals. While the criteria are judged to have successfully added a peacebuilding framework to the programme, a number of weaknesses, both operational and conceptual, are found. The article argues that their impact would be sharpened by a stronger focus on evaluation at the micro and meso levels, as well as a more thoughtful qualitative application of the criteria that links actions to the challenges of peacebuilding. The relevance of the conclusions to other areas in conflict is briefly considered. 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5344 Organisational Development for Conflict Sensitivity: The Experience of International NGOs Lange, Maria 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5343 Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation Fast, Larissa; Neufeldt, Reina Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational change, and the need to take a long-term perspective in order to capture the effects of programming all pose substantial challenges to peacebuilding programming for development agencies. This article provides a series of guiding questions for evaluation which can also be used in the planning and monitoring stages of a peacebuilding or conflictsensitive development programming.1 Drawing upon the work of scholars and practitioners working in the fields of development and peacebuilding, the article presents a process to generate strategic building blocks for a comprehensive approach to evaluating peacebuilding programming. 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://aladinrc.wrlc.org:80/handle/1961/5342 EDITORIAL JPD 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z