Leading the field to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and learning practices and promote a strong culture of adaptive management

The PEC was a field-wide response to address the unique challenges to measuring and learning from peacebuilding programs. The PEC was funded through the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York across three grants from 2011 - 2019.

As PEC efforts concluded in early 2019, the legacy of the PEC boasts a long list of learning activities, learning products, and resources, including the development of the DM&E for Peace learning platform that continue to influence the sector. The PEC further developed and hosted an impressive record of practitioner participation in many events, webinars, M&E Thursday Talks, Peacebuilding M&E Solutions Forum, and the Peace Project Mentorship Program.

We have also observed and measured indisputable changes in the culture of peacebuilding evaluation which has shifted since we first started this work in 2011.

The culture of evaluation in peacebuilding HAS changed in the following ways:

• There is a greater acceptance of the need for monitoring & evaluation;

• There is less (overt) resistance to evaluation;

• There is more use of evaluative tools and methods and more experimentation with complexity-aware methods that are relevant for peacebuilding processes;

• The quality of evaluations is improving, although more organizations could be sharing their evaluations with others – an area where more progress is needed.

Notable policy achievements include contributions to: USAID’s Procurement Reform linking design and implementation, supporting adaptive management and promoting better use of data, USIP CVE Taskforce report, CSIS’s Stabilization Assistance Review Report, and the Global Fragility Act - bringing DM&E issues to the forefront of new legislation and policies.  

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