1. 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

2. Strategic Needs & Operational Implications

3. So what? 3
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4. 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

5. Recurring Themes: 1. Good Governance5
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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.

6. 2. Peacebuilding & Reconciliation6
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7. 3. Strengthened Civic Participation & Civil Society Space

8. 4. Sustainable Economic Development & Equitable Distribution of Resources

9. Compared to OECD

10. 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