AfP works to raise the bar for peacebuilding practice by setting minimal standards for peacebuilding DM&E across the field. We build on existing efforts to validate these standards and work towards adopting and integrating them across the field through capacity building initiatives.
AfP’s #CreativityInCrisis video series highlights innovative, local, and practical solutions to global DM&E challenges. This series allows AfP to spotlight creative research methodologies, novel solutions to complex problems; while at the same time amplifying voices from the frontlines and creating a culture of shared learning.
To learn more about the #CreativityInCrisis video series please reach out to Shaziya DeYoung.
This video highlights the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and their Farmer to Foodbanks program that was successful in reimagining a better food distribution system for all while responding to emerging needs of the community with regards to food security and livelihood sustainability.
This video highlights Local Action Fund (LAF) as they explain how they created an early warning and early warning (EWER) system using the social media platform WhatsApp
This video features International Care Ministries (ICM) as their team in the Philippines talk through some of the challenges COVID-19 posed to their programming and how they were able to use chatbots to creatively overcome these challenges.
This video features Chemonics as their Iraq regional team talks through some of the challenges COVID-19 posed to their Monitoring & Evaluation processes and how they were able to use social media platforms to creatively overcome these challenges.
This final video of the GIS series explores how the geoBoundaries team got started in GIS and offers tips and tricks on how other individuals can also get started in GIS! This video highlights open-source software and tools available to get started on a GIS journey.
In conversation with the geoBoundaries team as they introduce, THE WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN, FREE AND RESEARCH-READY DATABASE OF POLITICAL ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES. This database is an online, open license resource of boundaries (i.e., state, county) for every country in the world tracking approximately 300,000 boundaries across 199 entities, including all 195 UN member states, Greenland, Taiwan, Niue, and Kosovo.
This video features Nuru International, and how they were able to use remote sensing technology using Landat 8 satellite imagery to track growth of livelihoods in North East Nigeria to inform their development responses.
In conversation with Castelline Tilus, Co-Founder of Ayiti Analytics, this video explores the Haiti Health System Dashboard and talks through the dashboard’s inception using geo-tagged information, ways to use the dashboard to inform effective responses, challenges encountered through the creation of this resource, and next steps for the dashboard.
AfP’s #CreativityInCrisis Video explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS). What is GIS? What are some of the techniques we can use in GIS? How do we use GIS for data collection and programming? This video aims to address some of these questions and highlight related remote data collection technologies currently being used in the peacebuilding field!
AfP’s #CreativityInCrisis Video 2.2 on Data Sampling Techniques explores other data sources that can be used to triangulate findings from sampling techniques used for rapid data collection.
AfP’s #CreativityInCrisis Video 2.1 explores Data Sampling Techniques that were used on a national level with the Rapid Emergency Response Surveys (RERS) piloted by Utz Pape and the World Bank Group across 4 countries (Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen).
AfP’s #CreativityInCrisis Video 1 highlights the Rapid Emergency Response Surveys (RERS) piloted by Utz Pape from the World Bank Group to collect data via phone surveys across 4 conflict countries (Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen). It narrates the methodology used exploring the challenges faced, results and limitations of the RERS, and lessons learned.
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