EIRENE PEACEBUILDING DATABASE

"Peacebuilding is a swiftly developing field that was, and in many ways still is, struggling with DM&E and its integration. AfP is mandated with laying a foundation for showing greater evidence of the effectiveness and impact of the peacebuilding field. Given this mandate, we seek opportunities to develop and promote practical tools to assist in these efforts. Unlike other development fields, peacebuilding still does not have common indicators to assess the field's desired outcomes, and we also still struggle to understand what are the desired changes peacebuilding aims to affect. From a DM&E point of view, this lack of consensus makes proving impact very challenging. The difficulties of attempting to measure intangible outcomes such as social cohesion, improved trust, and prevention, is a struggle that all peacebuilders are facing, and in many situations, surmounting. Given the needs of the field, AfP was motivated to provide a resource that could begin a conversation around measurement. A proof of concept that would allow us the overcome the question of if we could or should measure, and instead focus on how we are measuring. It is our hope that this tool can inspire further research efforts towards defining key indicators for peacebuilding and seeking some standardization across peacebuilding indicators to begin assessing collective impact. "