On Thursday, June 25th, DME for Peace hosted Dr. Tammy Smith, Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist at the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, for a Thursday Talk on how the UN Peacebuilding Fund adapted its M&E approach to better accommodate complex and dynamic environments.
The UN Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) was established in 2006 to encourage timely, innovative and politically risky programming in countries emerging from conflict or deep political crisis. Mandated to maintain a "light footprint", the PBF first gained M&E capacity in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, the Fund focused its evaluation efforts exclusively on producing final evaluations as a means of addressing both learning as well as the accountability concerns of donors. In line with its move toward greater and earlier forms of design and implementation guidance to Fund recipients, in 2014, PBF redesigned its M&E approach to better accommodate complex and dynamic peacebuilding settings. The new approach lays out a three-step process of distinct moments of reflection and opportunities for recalibration through an evaluability assessment, midterm partnership review and final evaluation in programming countries. PBF has begun rolling out this new framework in 2015 and looks forward to discussing some of the anticipated benefits but also some of the persistent challenges it faces moving forward.
For more information, visit: dmeforpeace.org/discuss/adapting-complex-and-dynamic-environments-un-peacebuilding-funds-new-me-approach
How to register
Watch the recording at https://vimeo.com/131775397
