We aspire to be thought leaders within the field of Monitoring and Evaluation for peacebuilding, our commitment to learning with our partners gaining widespread recognition.
Our approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning helps us generate information, data and research to better understand the potential and impact of local peacebuilding, and to build on this information with our partners.
Central to our MEL approach is the leading role our partners take in the development and implementation of their own learning and development. Peace Direct functions as a focal point, providing capacity building, guidance and information on trends, tools, and methods.
We support our partners to develop their own logical frameworks and theories of change, to collect and analyse their own qualitative data, and conduct feedback sessions with project participants.
We are always looking to test new methods and tools, and adapt them to fit our partners’ context and capacity, whilst maintaining the highest standards in research methods and ethics.
What we do
Putting the local first in Monitoring and Evaluation
Peace Direct conducts research into how M&E can hinder or enhance locally led programming, and how M&E can better enable programmes to adapt to changes in context.
We have developed an online tool to help you analyse and develop your own Monitoring and Evaluation tools, and develop your learning.
Stopping at success
We are launching two new research projects which focus on how different contexts, systems and structure enable or inhibit the development of local civil society.
The first, Stopping at Success, will look into how international support to local organisations and projects can limit the risks of dependency and plan for a successful exit at the outset. The second, Facilitating Financial Sustainability, will look at what conditions are necessary in order to ensure local organisations are financially sustainable.
Both research projects will collaborate with research consortium members in the USA and around the world, will provide support to local activities to test theories, and will result in comprehensive case studies and evaluations.
This research is running for the next three years and we will share learning and reports along the way.
