Measuring success in complex settings: GPPAC’s experiences with planning, monitoring and evaluation

Developing a planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) system for a global network is a challenge across the world. Moreover, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) is working in the field of conflict prevention, an area that in itself is still struggling with finding adequate monitoring and evaluation methods.

This article outlines how the GPPAC PM&E system has been set up, the challenges faced while developing the system and the way these challenges were addressed. As the GPPAC PM&E system is still being developed further, this article is based on the experiences of GPPAC so far and literature on evaluation, networks and conflict prevention.