Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation

Purpose

This guide outlines steps in developing results frameworks and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans to support WASH programming contributions to peace in fragile and conflict affected contexts (FCCs). The guide does not go into the details of developing an overall results framework and M&E plan, as these would be relevant to any WASH intervention. Instead it focuses on the specific and relevant dimensions of doing so in an FCC. In such situations there is a need to integrate conflict sensitivity as a minimum requirement and to leverage opportunities to contribute to building and sustaining peace through WASH.

Section 1 shows how this guide complements UNICEF’s results-based management and risk-informed programming monitoring approaches. Section 2 outlines key steps to integrate conflict sensitivity to WASH programming results frameworks and M&E plans as a minimum requirement in FCCs. Section 3 focuses on developing peacebuilding results frameworks and M&E plans to support diverse WASH for Peace interventions, and includes illustrative case studies. The Guide includes examples and case studies of efforts at UNICEF country office (CO) level to develop and implement conflict-sensitive/ peacebuilding results frameworks and M&E plans, to frame youth-led peacebuilding contributions through their participation in WASH, and to capture the social cohesion impacts of integrated host-refugee WASH investments.

• Risk-Informed Programme Monitoring – Integrating conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding into M&E
• Developing and implementing conflict-sensitive WASH M&E
• Developing a WASH Peacebuilding Results Framework – What to measure
• Developing and implementing your WASH peacebuilding M&E Plan – How to measure
• Evaluation, learning, and generating WASH for Peace evidence