How to use the toolkit
The toolkit is divided into four sections to help you navigate to the parts that are most relevant to you.
A toolkit for design, monitoring and evaluation
A toolkit for design, monitoring and evaluation
A toolkit for design, monitoring and evaluation
This chapter helps you to think through how to do the following:
This chapter will guide you through a process that helps to achieve the following:
Analyse your context: This includes looking at the range of conflict dynamics present, of which one outcome may be joining a VE group. This helps prioritise the needs your programming should address together with looking at whether VE is the priority.
Define and evidence theories of change (ToCs): Put into place the collaborative design and use of ToCs across all projects to support critical thinking amongst project staff, test assumptions upon which interventions are based, and define clear directions for the change that is expected.
Develop appropriate indicators: Develop indicators through a participatory process with relevant stakeholders. Use a range of indicators to mitigate against unrealistic assumptions about the programme impact on PVE.
Use an adaptable indicator bank that offers a range of adaptable indicators covering the different UNDP programming areas.
All the exercises in this chapter take a conflict and gender-sensitive approach. Guidance (such as questions and examples) specifically relating to conflict and gender sensitivity are integrated into the tools.
This chapter will help you with the following:
This chapter will help you with the following:
With two-thirds of all countries in the world experiencing a terrorist attack in 2016, terrorism has become an unprecedented threat to international peace, security and development, feeding off violent conflict. As conflicts have grown in intensity and number over the past decade, terrorist attacks have also increased and spread. According to the UN Secretary-General, preventing conflict and sustainable development should be the primary focus to change this trend; recognising that development is the best way to tackle the poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity and public services that feed despair.
Programming should begin with a robust analysis of what is happening on the ground and why, using this to inform programming to ensure that interventions 'do no harm' and support mechanisms that prevent conflict and build peace
Ensure that there is a clear and shared understanding with UNDP and government and civil society partners of what PVE is from the outset.
PVE programmes are a politically sensitive field of activity conducted in complex and volatile contexts. Any PVE programme should include regular risk management throughout the project cycle.
Gender identities, and how they intersect with other identity markers such as age, class, geographic location, sexual orientation, marital status, disability and ethno-religious background, determine people's positions of relative power or vulnerability. Understanding how diverse groups are affected will support PVE efforts.
Build a process to think through the nature of how a community-level PVE programme selects beneficiaries and understand how the sensitivities and challenges around this.
Put in place a strategy for developing UNDP and partner personnel capacities, confidence and resources for M&E. This includes creating a culture of reflection and learning within a project team. Staff need to be able to discuss project successes and failures in a supportive environment.
This useful table summarizes the principles of good PVE programming.
Key considerations for the three stages of evaluation.
Offers guidance on planning an evaluation in a PVE context and set evaluation questions relevant for a PVE context
