Strengthening organisational capacities to build peace - research report

25 Aug 2016
15

Strengthening organisational capacities to build peace – research report

UNOY Peacebuilders, a member of the Global Coalition for Conflict Transformation, in pleased to present their latest research report: Youth Impact for Peace: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Six European Youth Organisations.

 Suggested Reading Conflict Background GCCT

By UNOY Peacebuilders

We are very happy to present our latest research report: Youth Impact for Peace: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Six European Youth Organisations!

The research was a cooperative effort of the International Secretariat of UNOY Peacebuilders and five of its European member organisations, namely Service Civil International Service Civil International (SCI), The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR), Fundació Catalunya Voluntària (FCV), The European Intercultural Forum e. V. (EIF) and International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development (CEIPES), supported by independent researcher and former UNOY staff, Celina Del Felice.

The research focused on understanding current processes and practices of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) through a peer-review organisational assessment of the six participating organisations.
Youth Impact for Peace

Youth organisations all over the world are faced with on-going challenges on their daily work. One of these challenges is their organisational capacities concerning monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) practices. Considering the growing need and interest to improve such organisational capacities UNOY decided to engage in a long term, organisational development project, namely Youth Impact,  with the ultimate aim of improving the MEL practices of youth peace organisations. This research report is the result of the first phase of the project.

This report presents our findings, addressing the following questions:

  • How do youth peace organisations monitor and evaluate their work and learn from it?
  • What suggestions for improvement emerge from analysing MEL practices?

Broadly, this report provides a strong basis for better understanding of current MEL practices in youth peace organisations in Europe and what needs to be done to improve them.

This report is of particular interest to youth peace organisations, but we strongly engage anyone who is interested in the topic to take advantage of this very useful resource!

On top of our research, we are also developing a detailed assessment tool providing an insight into what constitutes a good MEL practice and we also aim to develop a set of practical guidelines to help youth peace organisations improve their MEL practices.

UNOY Peacebuilders are a member of the Global Coalition for Conflict Transformation, comprised of organizations committed to upholding and implementing the principles of conflict transformation. 

This article was originally published on UNOY Peacebuilders’ website and is available by clicking here. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of TransConflict.


Interested in writing for TransConflict? Contact us now by clicking here!

What are the principles of conflict transformation?

FacebooktwitterlinkedinmailFacebooktwitterlinkedinmail

FacebooktwitterlinkedinrssFacebooktwitterlinkedinrss
,

About Post Author

TransConflict undertakes conflict transformation projects and research.

15 Responses

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Latest posts

Sign-up for regular updates!

Support TransConflict

Follow TransConflict on Twitter!

Archive

Show Buttons
Hide Buttons