Phoenix
The Phoenix network seeks to find alternatives to standard results frameworks for unstable environments.
The Phoenix network seeks to find alternatives to standard results frameworks for unstable environments. The need to systematically assess the performance of conflict prevention, stabilisation operations, peace-keeping and peace-building, is increasing. However traditional tools, usually based on elaborate plans, objectives and indicators, are clearly insufficient. To overcome this challenge, Phoenix has brought together a team of experts (individuals and institutions) to create operational tools based on solid applied research.
The Partners:
Fafo is an independent and multidisciplinary research foundation focusing on social welfare and trade policy, labor and living conditions, public health, migration and integration, and transnational security and development issues. Fafo works within both a domestic Norwegian and larger international context.
The University of Queensland’s ‘Building Peace and Stability: Measuring Effectiveness of Peace and Capacity Building Operations’ project aims to develop a comprehensive framework for assessing the performance and effectiveness of international policing missions, including peace operations and police capacity building.
SADEV - Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation is a government funded agency that evaluates Swedish international development cooperation and the reform cooperation in Eastern Europe. SADEV initiates and performs high-quality evaluations of the Swedish international development cooperation – independently or in collaboration with others, and distributes them to decision-makers and other stakeholders in order to improve and strengthen the Swedish international development cooperation.
With 50 years of experience, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) is Norway’s leading independent centre for research and information on international political and economic issues, and on areas of central relevance to Norwegian foreign policy. NUPI undertakes long-term basic research as well as short-term applied research and advisory services. Central to all NUPI’s work is interdisciplinary collaboration, both within the institute and with other institutes and bodies in Norway and abroad.
With the S² Group, Logos Technologies has developed a unique core competency in the emerging social sciences field of system-wide monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for conflict prevention and peace-building interventions. Through previous operational experience and association with a USG-sponsored Research and Development (R&D) efforts to improve national efforts to plan for implementing and evaluating progress in global conflict environments, Logos Technologies has become a leader in metrics development and analysis.
FOI is an assignment-based authority under the Swedish Ministry of Defence. The core activities are research, method and technology development, as well as studies for the use of defence and security. FOI provides its customers with leading expertise in a large number of fields such as security-policy studies and analyses in defence and security, assessment of different types of threats, systems for control and management of crises, protection against and management of hazardous substances, IT-security and the potential of new sensors.
Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a Finnish independent non-profit organization, works to resolve conflict and to build sustainable peace. CMI was founded in 2000 by its Chairman President Martti Ahtisaari. The headquarters of the organisation are in Helsinki, Finland.
International Development Research Centre Canada (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. The support of IDRC is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.
CMC Finland is a governmental institution and a centre of expertise in civilian crisis management. The main tasks of CMC Finland are to train, recruit and deploy experts for international civilian crisis management, peacebuilding and humanitarian response missions as well as to conduct research focusing on the main tasks. CMC Finland acts as a national head office for all seconded Finnish experts.
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