Repository of Tools for Peacebuilding impact measurement
As part of the Impact Hub’s effort to strengthen?UN system-wide capacities to measure peacebuilding impact, we have developed an online repository to support ongoing and emerging efforts across the system and beyond.?
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This repository aims to enhance awareness of and access to peacebuilding measurability resources – including for programming, monitoring, reporting, policymaking and decision-making. It also seeks to foster greater coherence and mutual awareness within the UN system by consolidating existing tools, databases, indicators/frameworks, guidance notes, and platforms currently used to identify, assess, and measure peacebuilding impact.?
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The entries are categorized into four main types of tools: conflict analysis, conflict/displacement tracker, programming guidance, and results/impact measurement.
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We encourage our UN agencies, funds and programmes, as well as external partners across the peacebuilding community – such as civil society, Member States, International Financial Institutions, and the private sector to submit additional entries that aim to measure evidence-based, transformative impact of peacebuilding interventions.?
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Conflict Analysis
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OCHA | Works to establish common format and standards for datasets to ensure that the data used by humanitarian orgs can be easily integrated. The platform provides datasets that remain up-to-date and relevant and other operational information that are critical for humanitarian response. Specializes in geospatial and logistical data. | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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OCHA | Founded in 2017 by OCHA to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian response through data, the platform aggregates data from different UN agencies, NGOs and governments on crisis data, humanitarian needs assessments, and geospatial data | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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IOM | Conflict Sensitivity Analysis System (CSAS)* ?Conflict Sensitivity? |
IOM is systematically integrating conflict sensitivity into its systems, frameworks and operations in fragile and conflict-affected settings. As part of these efforts, the Organization has developed tools and guidance and undertaken country-level mainstreaming processes. It also leads multiple efforts across various interorganizational forums at global and country levels to promote conflict sensitivity initiatives. This is in line with IOM’s commitment to the Recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. | |
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Conflict Analysis
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IOM | Durable solutions to internal displacement (DSID) data and analysis | IOM has been at the forefront of interagency efforts to deliver higher quality and better harmonized data and analysis to inform durable solutions to internal displacement, including as global co-chair of the DSID Task Force. At the country-level, IOM continues to support the role out of DSID recommendations to establish baselines and monitor the progress of IDPs along solutions pathways. At the same time, IOM’s various products and tools help to inform durable solutions programming, including intentions surveys, multi-sectoral and sectoral needs assessments, and protection analysis and protection monitoring reports. | |
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Conflict Analysis
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FAO | The Guide to Context Analysis is intended as an accessible and practical learning tool for FAO offices and implementing partners to document and institutionalise their knowledge of a context to inform programme design, implementing and strategic decision making. | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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OCHA | Allows humanitarian organizations, governments, researchers, and other stakeholders to share and find datasets relevant to humanitarian crises, promoting transparency and collaboration.? | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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OCHA | KoboToolbox, designed by UN OCHA in 2014, allows users to design surveys and data collection forms for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) and web-based platforms. It can collect data in offline settings. Once data is collected, it can be synced to the KoboToolbox server for real-time monitoring, analysis, and reporting. The platform includes basic data analysis tools, allowing users to visualize data through graphs, tables, and exports in various formats (CSV, Excel, etc.). | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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IOM | Solutions Mobility Index (SMI) | The Solutions and Mobility Index (SMI) supports identification of root causes and factors associated with fragility to develop evidence-based actions. Launched in 2022, SMI calculation promotes stability and informs the delivery of durable solutions to protracted displacement. | |
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Conflict Analysis
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UNEP | Provides real-time environmental insights on: global environment trends, interactive dashboards and visualizations, focus on environmental goals, impacts towards the SDGs, environmental monitoring and alerts, integrated data from multiple sources, regional and national data, environmental risk, and more.? | ||
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Conflict Analysis
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UNEP |
Offers detailed information on protected areas around the world, including national parks, nature reserves, and conservation areas. Data includes geographical boundaries, management practices, and conservation objectives. |
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Conflict Analysis
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UNEP | Serves as a central hub for tracking global environmental trends and key issues related to climate change, biodiversity, pollution, and sustainable development. The platform combines diverse data sources and visualizations to support informed decision-making and action on environmental challenges. | ? | |
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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OCHA | 3w portal (who, what, where) | A centralized platform for humanitarian organizations to share information about their activities during a crisis. The portal allows humanitarian organizations to upload and share information about their activities, including locations, sectors of intervention, and services provided. The platform enables humanitarian actors to track ongoing activities in real-time, facilitating coordination among different organizations and reducing the risks of fragmented response efforts. | |
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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UN Peacekeeping | First launched in MINUSCA in August 2018, CPAS has since expanded to eight additional missions and is expected to be rolled out in all peacekeeping missions in 2021. CPAS allows missions to assess their operating environment, identify what influence they aim to have, and assess progress towards these goals using data and analysis more systematically. The data and analysis are used to track impact over time, assess performance, inform future plans, and formulate recommendations to decision-makers and mission leadership to enhance mandate implementation and the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping operations as a whole to better achieve global peace and security objectives. | ||
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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FAO | Information System - provide regularly updated and highly accessible assessments of food insecurity in fragile environments and to inform FAO’s evidence-based programming. In 2023, DIEM commenced piloting the integration of conflict and displacement into data collection processes, which will contribute to an improved evidence base on the linkages between food security, conflict, vulnerability, and displacement.? | ||
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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IOM | The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) is a system to track and monitor displacement and population mobility. It is designed to capture, process, and disseminate information to provide a better understanding of the movements and evolving needs of displaced populations, whether on site or in route regularly and systematically. | ||
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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UNHCR | Microdata on IDPs and other persons of interest at UNHCR | ||
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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UNHCR | Provides data on resettlement activities by specific countries, showing the number of refugees resettled to various third countries. The platform also provides annual resettlement trends, refugee population breakdown, resettlement criteria and eligibility, resettlement quotas and allocations, country-specific resettlement programs, interactive data visualization, annual reports and updates, etc. | ||
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Conflict/Displacement Tracker
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IOM | To better assist governments in their support to displaced and vulnerable persons affected by communal conflict and violence, IOM built on its longstanding experience in data collection and community stabilization in WCA to establish the Transhumance Tracking Tool (TTT) in 2018. | ||
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Programming Guidance
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IOM | CBP is a people-centered methodology that approaches communities as having capacities, agency, and motivations to drive positive change. It is a process-oriented approach that uses a series of steps to progressively deepen participation and ownership over time. Finally, CBP is a rights-based approach that emphasizes the responsibilities of local authorities and the inclusion of all groups in the process. The CBP offers a step-by-step approach that covers planning, assessments and recovery phases of programmes and can be used to meet outcomes across humanitarian, durable solutions, recovery, resilience, stabilization, peacebuilding, migration and disaster risk reduction programmes. | ||
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Programming Guidance
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UNEG | Repository of documents published by UNEG | ||
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Programming Guidance
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WHO | The Global Health and Peace Initiative (GHPI) aims to reinforce the role of health in the promotion of peace and to strengthen the role of World Health Organization (WHO) and the health sector as contributors to improving the prospects for peace, e.g. by strengthening social cohesion, dialogue, or resilience to the impact of armed conflict or violence while empowering communities, in the framework of WHO’s mandate and under national ownership. | ||
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Programming Guidance
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OCHA | Not a data tool but a standardized way to structure and encode humanitarian data, using common tags and a consistent format to represent information | ||
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Programming Guidance
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ILO | (also available in French and Spanish) | The guidance seeks to ensure that policies and programmes contribute to peace and prevent harm by enhancing understanding of the relationship between peace, conflict dynamics, and decent work, while clearly defining how initiatives can support peace without exacerbating tensions. A Peace and Conflict Analysis (PCA) offers essential insights, including an overview of peace and conflict trends, a detailed examination of their interaction with decent work, and a practical summary with recommendations on promoting peace through decent work, mitigating conflict risks, and refining programme priorities. | |
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Programming Guidance
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IOM | Peace and Justice?programming | IOM’s peacebuilding toolbox is comprised of several distinct sub-sets of peacebuilding work: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Disengagement, Disassociation Reintegration and Reconciliation (DDRR), Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), Community Violence Reduction (CVR) and community-based conflict management, Transitional Justice (TJ) and House Land and property (HLP), ?Community Policing for conflict management, Security Sector Reform (SSR), and Community Stabilization in conflict settings. | |
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Programming Guidance
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FAO | The Programme Clinic is a structured participatory analysis designed to identify and integrate “conflict-sensitive” strategies into the design and implementation of FAO interventions. The objective is to minimise the risk of any negative or harmful impacts as well as maximise any positive contributions towards strengthening and consolidating conditions for sustainable peace The Programme Clinic is both an approach for informing conflict-sensitive design and an experience that contributes to building the capacity of participants to more naturally engage in conflict-sensitive thinking. | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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OCT | Compendium of Good Practices for Measuring Results in Counter-Terrorism and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (CT/PCVE)? Summary of the Compendium is available in: English |
This Compendium of Good Practices for Measuring Results in Counter-Terrorism and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (CT/PCVE) is a collaborative effort between diverse institutions within the European Union and the 51影院, as part of joint efforts in funding, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and learning from interventions in the fields of CT and PCVE. Both organizations recognize the importance of strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and learning in support of more targeted, efficient, and impactful technical assistance for the benefit of end recipients across Member States. The development of the Compendium was informed by the first independent UN system-wide meta-synthesis of evaluation results under the 51影院 Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy commissioned by the Resource Mobilization, Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group of the 51影院 Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact in 2021 with the financial support of the State of Qatar, which recommended strengthening evaluation knowledge and capacities among internal and external stakeholders. The Compendium is intended to support programme managers, evaluators, and M&E experts in effectively monitoring and evaluating the results of CT/PCVE initiatives, as well as to further build the Community of Practice on M&E for CT/PCVE. | |
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Result and Impact Measurement
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World Bank | Central repository for global development data, providing users with access to a vast range of indicators from international sources. Includes databases on: world development indicators, statistical capacity indicators, education statistics, gender statistics, health and nutrition population statistics, and more | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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ILO | ILO’s handbook includes an index of social cohesion/peace indicators, as well as baselines and endline survey questions.? | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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UNDP | Impact Measurement Tool and Guidance Note | The tool is accompanied with a detailed Theory of Change for core prevention and peacebuilding engagement, that consists of 4 levels (individual, institutional, structural, systemic) and contains over 30 granular Theories of Change, with over 80 sample indicators. | |
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Result and Impact Measurement
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UN Volunteers |
Contains some evidence, knowledge products, and research into volunteerism and peacebuilding. The Knowledge Portal contains tools and models as well as new evidence on the integration of voluntary efforts for peace building.? ? |
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Result and Impact Measurement
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OCT |
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Toolkit for PCVE Action Plans This toolkit is available in: English |
Designed to support organizations involved in the development and/or implementation of action plans to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism (PCVE action plans), this Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Toolkit, shares practical steps on how to develop and implement a MEL Plan to support a PCVE action plan. The Toolkit caters to organizations at different stages of the PCVE action plan process, aiming at individuals and organizations, such as local and national governments, regional organizations and international and civil society organizations – with little or no experience in monitoring and evaluating. | |
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Result and Impact Measurement
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UNHCR | Includes data visualization and dashboards, situation updates, population figures, geospatial data, country and regional operations, partnership and collaboration, reports and documents, humanitarian indicators and more.? | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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FAO | The document provides operational guidance and inspiration to project and technical staff on how the Organization’s work can contribute to peace – and how to measure those contributions. | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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UN Women | Tracks progress towards SDG 5 (gender quality) across indicators such as SDG 5.1 (end all forms of discrimination against women and girls) | ||
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Result and Impact Measurement
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UN HABITAT | Provides key data and indicators related to urban development, sustainability, and quality of life in cities worldwide. Information includes global and local indicators, SDG monitoring, city and region-based data, key urban development themes, time series data, interactive visualizations, policy and planning support and collaborations with global partners.? |
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