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Evaluation is often perceived as externally driven, in the case of development NGOs as something that donors want to be done – for reasons of accountability. While accountability is one purpose, evaluations in fact present unique learning opportunities. Evaluations build on good planning and a functioning monitoring system and are meant to inform decision-making. In recent years, evaluation of peacebuilding engagement has received increasing attention, for instance in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This section will present the key aspects of evaluation in an introductory presentation and then gather resources that explain evaluation planning, management and utilization in detail. It has to be mentioned here, that evaluation should already be considered in the planning stages of a project or programme.

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  • Evaluation as Learning. An introduction. This lecture provides an overview of what evaluation is and what evaluation in peacebuilding means.
  • Church, Cheyanne/Rogers, Mark M., Designing for Results. Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs (Chapters 7-11), Search for Common Ground/United States Institute of Peace/Alliance for Peacebuilding, 2006. <http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/ilr/ilt_manualpage.html> (accessed 14 April 2009). Church and Rogers provide a comprehensive and very practical overview of what steps need to be taken for an evaluation of peacebuilding interventions.
  • Lederach, John Paul/Neufeldt, Reina/Culbertson, Hal, Reflective Peacebuilding. A Planning, Monitoring, and Learning Toolkit (Chapter 12: Evaluation as Learning), Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Catholic Relief Services East Asia Regional Office, 2007, pp. 63-66. <http://kroc.nd.edu/sites/default/file/reflective_peacebuilding.pdf> (accessed 14 April 2009). Lederach et. al. put their focus on evaluation as learning. It does not provide a guide for how to conduct evaluations, but instead offers suggestions for enhancing the learning potential of evaluations.
  • Lewis, Helen, "Evaluation and Assessment of Interventions", in: Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess (eds.), Beyond Intractability, Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Posted: September 2004 <http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/evaluation/> (accessed 24 April 2009)
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC), Guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities (Working draft for application period), OECD 2008. <http://www.oecd.org/secure/pdfDocument/0,2834,en_21571361_34047972_39774574_1_1_1_1,00.pdf > (accessed 14 April 2009) This OECD-DAC guidance working draft is the result of an ongoing collaborative project by the OECD DAC networks on Development Evaluation and on Conflict, Peace and Deveopment Co-Operation. The guidance, that went through a one-year application process in 2008, aims to provide directions to those undertaking the evaluation of conflict prevention and peacebuilding projects. The main section takes the reader through the key elements of the evaluation process.
  • Elliott, Michael/d'Estrée, Tamra Pearson/Kaufman, Sanda, Evaluation as a Tool for Reflection, in: Burgess, Guy/Burgess, Heidi, Beyond Intractability. Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Posted: September 2003 <http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/Evaluation_Reflection/> (accessed 16 June 2009)

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