DM&E Resources for USAID-CMM 2012

It’s that time of year again: the annual USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Call for Proposals. So begins one of the busiest proposal months of the year.

CMM is notoriously difficult to successfully apply to; it is truly necessary to ‘have all your ducks in a row’ before submitting the proposal. This year’s APS calls for increased consideration of gender in the proposed project, and increased consideration towards partner ‘capacity’ development, in addition to the traditional emphasis on ‘people to people’ approaches.

Over the past several months, the Learning Portal for DM&E for Peacebuilding has been aggregating a range of documents relating to the design, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding. Listed below are a few resources we’ve collected that we’ve found to be particularly useful when crafting CMM proposals.

CMM-Specific Resources
Theories of Change and Indicator Development in Conflict Management... by USAID-CMM

General Peacebuilding Design Resources
Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Con... by Cheyanne Church and Mark Rogers
Do No Harm handbook by CDA Collaborative Learning Projects Inc.

Gender-Specific Resources
ICAF Gender Marker by United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee

Evaluation-Specific Resources
Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activi... by OECD-DAC
Checklist for Building Organizational Evaluation Capacity by Boris B. Volkov and Jean A. King
Checklist for Developing and Evaluating Evaluation Budgets by Jerry Horn
Evaluation Design Checklist by Daniel L. Stufflebeam

Source: http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org