Public Policy Protocols for Participatory Alternative Conflict Management & Peace and Security Monitoring & Evaluation RL Vol XIII No 555 MMXIX

Public Policy Protocols for Participatory

Alternative Conflict Management & Peace and Security Monitoring & Evaluation

System Principles and Indicator Development Processes for Peace and Security Monitoring and Evaluation –

International Partnership for Peace and Security – Greater Horn & Great Lakes of Africa

Public Lecture Respublica Litereria - RL Vol XIII No 555 MMXIX

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Former Chairperson of the AU Anti-Corruption Advisory Board &

Professor of Public Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms

https://addisababa.academia.edu/CostyCostantinos

Abstract

The post-World War II human community had the firm belief that a global collective security system capable of limiting the misery of people living under conflicts and complex emergencies would have emerged. Seventy years on, notwithstanding an array of declarations, communiqués and action programmes, the humanitarian crisis in Africa continues unabated, while rapid political developments continue to make new demands on individuals and communities already at the brink of collapse. In this sense, human security that complements state security, enhances human rights, and fortifies human development is vital to the region. Human security thus brings together the human elements of security, of rights, of development.

In the Greater Horn and Great Lakes of Africa, the history of establishing security sector programmes has a long history. The IGAD Security Sector Programme is aimed at building national capacity to promote regional securing cooperation. It comprised of enhancing judicial capacity, optimising interdepartmental cooperation, enhancing border control, providing training and promoting strategic cooperation. On the other hand, the regional programme in Great Lakes Region consists of the joint security management of common borders: disarmament of pastoralists, disarmament and repatriation of all armed groups demining and mine action, combating illicit small arms and light weapons and trans-national crime and terrorism.

The main issue here is how have these declarations been monitored. In an effort to answer this, the paper develops an M&E system. M&E should be understood as an integral part of day-to-day IPPS management, collecting, recording, communicating, analysing and using information for the purpose of decision-making, by which states can identify and solve implementation problems, and assess progress in relation to what was originally planned. M&E can be used to track the procurement, delivery of inputs, the progress of activities and the achievement of outputs. Evaluation occurs only periodically and requires a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis of information to determine not just whether or not the targeted results have been achieved, but why and how. In evaluation, the objectives and design of a programme can be, and should be, questioned to assist member states in decision-making, strengthen programme design and implementation, and stimulate partnership with other actors.

Key words: Greater Horn of Africa, Great Lakes of Africa, peace, security, monitoring, evaluation, capacity-building,

see paper here or  https://www.academia.edu/39709849/Public_Policy_Protocols_for_Participatory_ACM_Peace_and_Security_M_and_E_RL_Vol_XIII_No_556_MMXIX