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Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment Handbook
Civil Society, Conflict, Framework, Civil SocietyThe handbook consolidates good practice for peace and conflict impact assessment from multiple sources and provides a stand-alone, practical approach for peacebuilding practitioners who wish to ensure that the impact of their engagement in fragile communities will, as a minimum 'do no harm', and as a maximum may contribute to peace promotion. The handbook is ideally designed to be used in a...
Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management (HRIAM) Guide & Online Tool
Framework, Human Rights, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management (HRIAM) has been developed as an online tool for companies committed to assessing and managing the human rights risks and impacts of their business activities. In particular, the Guide to HRIAM provides guidance on how to: Identify and assess potential and/or existing human rights risks and impacts Implement mitigation action plans to...
Toolkits: A practical guide to monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
Civil Society, Framework, Civil SocietyThis framework is designed to promote a systematic approach to planning, reviewing and evaluating development work, Toolkits has proved popular and useful to countless development workers around the world. Covering the whole process of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, it includes a range of practical tools that can be adapted to suit different circumstances and brings a common...
Getting it Right: Human Rights Impact Assessment Guide
Framework, Human Rights, Civil SocietyThis framework (online source) provides a step-by-step process for those wishing to take stock of and assess the positive and negative human rights impacts of an investment project in their community. A human rights impact assessment (HRIA) is a process to measure the gap between the human rights commitments of the state (human rights in principle) and the actual enjoyment of these rights...
Impact Evaluations and Development: NONIE Guidance on Impact Evaluations
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe purpose of NONIE is to promote more and better impact evaluations among its members. Issues relating to evaluations in general are more effectively dealt with in the parent networks, and are thus not the primary focus of NONIE. NONIE will focus on sharing of methods and learning-by-doing to promote the practice of IE (impact evaluation). The current Guidance document was developed for...
Impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects: a compendium of approaches
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Media, Academic/Think TankThis paper is a part of the Development Informatics working paper series, which discusses the broad issues surrounding information, knowledge, information systems, and information and communication technologies in the process of socio-economic development. While there has been an increase in the investment in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects, little is...
Abstract: Quantifying the Impacts of the quality of governance on deforestation
Article / Working Paper, Land Governance, Academic/Think TankThe quality of governance is known to have effects on deforestation, together with other social and economic factors. However, assessing the impact of governance quality is a challenging task due to the complex and diverse mechanisms of deforestation as well as limited data availability. In this paper, interrelations between governance quality and deforestation rates are analysed on a global...