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Measuring Achievements of Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments
Defining Indicators
Agoglia et al. Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments. Provides a significant volume of outcome
indicators around five aspects of a conflict, including the existence of a sustainable economy. These are
high-level indicators for gauging the overall stability of a situation, rather than the direct success of an
individual project
CDA. Indications for Assessing Aid’s Impact on Conflict. Provides various indications of a project’s
positive and negative effects on the conflict.
Church, Cheyanne and Mark M. Roberts. Designing for Results: Integrating M&E in Conflict
Transformation Programmes. General guidelines on monitoring and evaluating in CAEs. Chapter four
includes a good discussion on indicators and some helpful examples.
DFID. Interim Guidance Note: Measuring and Managing for Results in Fragile and Conflict-Affected
States and Situations. Annex A lists of indicators for high level objectives, and possible data sources.
More focused on country programmes than projects.
Mercy Corps. Evaluation and Assessment of Poverty and Conflict Interventions. Conflict & Economics:
Lessons Learned on Measuring Impact. Provides a menu of 29 peace and conflict indicators and 49
economics and conflict indicators. Each indicator is defined and a list of potential disaggregations is
suggested. There is a useful discussion of how the indicators were selected and measured, including the
tools and surveys that were used.
Indicator Measurement in CAEs
Mercy Corps. Evaluation and Assessment of Poverty and Conflict Interventions: Conflict & Economics:
Lessons Learned on Measuring Impact. Provides several conflict monitoring tools, including a violent
incident reporting form, a disputes and dispute resolution assessment, a scored community relationship
mapping tool, and a conflict and resource mapping tool.
Catley, Burns, Abebe and Suji, Participatory Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners, 2008,
Feinstein Centre. Outlines an eight-step approach to conducting a participatory impact assessment.
Frontline SMS. Frontline SMS is a free software for creating and managing SMS activities such as
making announcements, conducting polls, and automatically replying to incoming SMS. In particular, it is
excellent for managing large mobile phone surveys, and was used in the above example by Colombia
University to gather data in Eastern DRC.
Muaz Jalil. Practical Guidelines for Conducting Research. Provides a review of good practices in
designing and conducting research in line with the DCED Standard.
Sartorius, Rolf and Christopher Carver. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Fragile States and
Peacebuilding Programs: Practical Tools for Improving Program Performance and Results. This
Practical Guidelines for Implementing the DCED Standard. Version 2, July 2013
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