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Evaluation of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Portfolio review
Austin, Greg Chalmers, Malcolm G.
Austin, Greg
Chalmers, Malcolm G.
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2004
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P1. The purpose of the Portfolio Review is to describe the programmes and associated
activities that are being evaluated. Since its main purpose is descriptive, it draws heavily
on existing official documents as appropriate. It should be noted that Her Majesty¿s
Government (HMG) has not previously commissioned a comprehensive overview of the
Conflict Prevention Pools (CPPs) from the perspective required for the Evaluation. Though
various forms of overview of each of the two CPPs have been prepared, the purposes and
therefore the content of these have been different from the purpose at hand.
P2. This brief `analytical history¿ of the Conflict Pools will provide an account of how and
why the CPP¿s have developed in the way that they have. The Portfolio Review does not
aim to provide the analytical framework for meeting the key objectives of the evaluation,
as set out in the Terms of Reference (ToRs). This has been done in the Inception Report,
and this Portfolio Review should not be read in isolation from the Inception Report.
P3. The Portfolio Review provides a description of the CPPs, their funding, their projects,
and their administrative processes to a level of detail appropriate to the purposes of the
Evaluation and the agreed length of the document. For a document of this length (a planned
20 pages plus annexes) to address a program of more than 600 million operating in some
100 countries, and involving the interests of five separate departments of state in the UK,
not to mention significant other stakeholders outside the UK, difficult choices about the
scope and detail of material to be included had to be made. As we crystallize our priorities
for what to include in the final version of the Portfolio Review, given the constraints of
length, we would invite comments as to further material that could be included.
P4. The Portfolio Review has involved London-based research, including interviews with
officials as well as review of documentary sources. This work has included collection of
preliminary information on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of current programming
effectiveness and administration. In respect of existing CPP activities, it supplements the
Inception Report as a guide to the authors of the case studies. For the Portfolio Review,
we interviewed some 25 officials across five departments. The main purpose of interviews
in the Portfolio Review stage was to support the effort of getting down on paper, for the
first time, a comprehensive description, with an appropriate level of consistency, of all of
the purposes, all of the key processes, and all of the activities of the CPPs.
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Austin, G., Chalmers, M. G., [in association with] Bradford University, Channel Research Ltd, PARC & Associated Consultants (2004). Evaluation of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Portfolio review. London: DFID. Evaluation report (EV 647).
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