Learning from Nine Examples of Peacebuilding Evaluation

Appendix Two:
Summit Agenda
Peacebuilding Evaluation Project:
Evidence Summit
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 9 am – 5 pm
United States Institute of Peace
2301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
It is well known that key stakeholders in the peacebuilding field face significant
challenges in monitoring and evaluating their initiatives. Increased
pressure to demonstrate effectiveness, constrained budgets, and rising
standards of what counts as credible evidence all must be managed. But it
is also the case that organizations are identifying creative ways to address
these challenges. The Evidence Summit has been organized to learn from
these efforts. The goal of the Summit is two-fold:
• To showcase organizations’ most successful efforts at evidence gathering
and evaluation.
• To bring a diverse group of practitioners, policymakers, and methodologists
together to provide input on how the evidence of impact can be made even
stronger.
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The premise of the Summit is to build on success. By identifying, critiquing,
and then disseminating these successes, it provides tangible examples of
how evaluation can and is being improved in the peacebuilding field.
The day-long event is primarily devoted to a series of break-out sessions.
In each session, representatives from a total of nine organizations, chosen
through a competitive review process, each present what they consider their
most successful effort to assess the peacebuilding impact of one of their
initiatives.
The cases presented at the Evidence Summit cover:
• The approach used to prevent, manage, or recover from violent conflict
• The appropriately applied evaluation methodology
• The manner in which the collected data was analyzed to determine the
success of the approach
• The observed strengths and weaknesses of the evaluation methodology