Identifying Strategic Needs Political Economy Rapid MSTC River History Triggers & Scenarios Symptoms Actor-Group Actor-Group Characteristics If the ocean is – a better future for the country, what will help us get there? Relationships Tributaries flow into the main channel of the river and help identify the highest priority strategic needs
Strategic Needs & Operational Implications
So what? 3 World Vision International
Operational Implications Four Products Raw Notes (within 1 week) Executive Summary – both Word and PowerPoint – including DRAFT Recommendations (Monday) Summary Report – 12 pages (within 1 month) distributed to a wide audience First Context Monitoring Team Conference Call (with regional, support office, and Global Centre support) Leadership for ongoing context monitoring shifts to Senior Management Team
Recurring Themes: 1. Good Governance 5 World Vision International 4 strategic needs have been common to virtually every workshop on every continent: good governance, sustainable & equitable economic development, civic participation including robust civil society, and peace & reconciliation processes.
2. Peacebuilding & Reconciliation 6 World Vision International
3. Strengthened Civic Participation & Civil Society Space
4. Sustainable Economic Development & Equitable Distribution of Resources
Compared to OECD
Referenced by: Conflict-sensitivity Consortium OECD Guidance on Evaluating Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities Aims 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