RapidHistory

Symptoms

Actor-GroupCharacteristics

Actor-GroupRelationships

Political Economy

Tributaries flow into the

main channel of the river

and help identify the highest

priority strategic needs

MSTC River

Triggers & Scenarios

Identifying Strategic Needs

Strategic Needs & Operational Implications

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So what?

Operational Implications

• Four Products1. Raw Notes (within 1 week)2. Executive Summary – both Word and

PowerPoint – including DRAFT Recommendations (Monday)

3. Summary Report – 12 pages (within 1 month) distributed to a wide audience

4. First Context Monitoring Team Conference Call (with regional, support office, and Global Centre support)

• Leadership for ongoing context monitoring shifts to Senior Management Team

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Recurring Themes:1. Good Governance

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2. Peacebuilding & Reconciliation2. Peacebuilding & Reconciliation

3. Strengthened Civic Participation & Civil Society Space

4. Sustainable Economic Development & Equitable Distribution of Resources

Compared to OECD

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Referenced by:

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Conflict-sensitivity Consortium

OECD Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding ActivitiesAims to improve ability to analyse dynamics of conflicts to impact programme and project planning and advocacy in emergency situations NGO emergency response, development and advocacy staff ‐ Focus on chronic political instability, not just violent conflict ‐ Sees conflict as cyclical with periods of peace followed by conflict ‐Collection of tools to analyse actors, symptoms and political economy of conflict, generate future scenarios, and analyse strategic and operational implications ‐ Effort pending on scope of data collection and workshop

International Alert – 2009 External Review