Learning from Nine Examples of Peacebuilding Evaluation

Key Takeaways for the Organization and the Field
• Several commenters noted that this type of internal and informal monitoring
is often not convincing to donors, who need more rigorous evidence. Such
rigorous evidence is eventually necessary as well to provide a more substantive
reality check within the organization itself. FoEME noted that they
continue to learn about evaluation and improve their evaluation practices. It
will be interesting to see if the organization can maintain their strong internal
learning practices while integrating more substantial, more rigorous external
evaluations into their systems.
• Overall, the most important contribution of FoEME’s presentation was to
raise interesting questions about where program management stops and
evaluation starts. A key takeaway for many participants was the idea that
informal monitoring and evaluation can be a key component of an overall
learning strategy. Moreover, it was clear that FoEME’s work on internal processes
such as program design and routinized monitoring has made their
evaluations more valuable because learning systems can absorb the findings
of these efforts.
For more information on FoEME and this evaluation, visit
www.foeme.org/www/module=projects.
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