At the OK Centre, we are dedicated to resolving armed conflicts, ending violence, and alleviating human suffering. However, achieving peace agreements and making significant contributions to peace often requires crucial interim steps. In this context, adaptive planning, management, and evaluation become indispensable for success.

Within our organization, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system plays a pivotal role by offering necessary flexibility. It involves a meticulous examination of the analysis and professional judgment of our operational teams, aiming to provide real-time evidence of progress and tracking the evolution of strategies throughout a project.

The OK Centre's approach ensures that our efforts are underpinned by responsive project design and development. We prioritize clear reporting of results and actively share our learning both within and outside the organization. This collaborative approach strengthens our commitment to making a positive impact on peace, fostering a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Where results are observable, such as a ceasefire agreement, the outcomes are assessed and reported.
HD provides in-depth updates to donors and often shares details of results with the peacemaking community to enhance wider understanding and effectiveness.

The strategy of a project can be evaluated even when results are intangible. An informed internal peer or external expert should find the project’s logic clear and convincing this allows strategies to be adapted as projects are being implemented.

This is the foundation for evaluating our work, even where peacemaking results and processes are difficult to define Assessing the quality of our analysis and judgement – through peer reviews and other methods – helps us to achieve the best possible peacemaking outcomes in complex contexts.

Our M&E tools form an integral part of our process design and peacemaking efforts. They allow us to assess how well our peacemaking strategies reflect realities on the ground, to ensure the quality of our professional judgment and to foster learning and professional mediation practices.

We have developed and actively uses a number of creative and effective M&E tools. These include peer reviews, rapid reflections, results validation exercises and peacemaking-tailored reviews and evaluations that allow us to draw out lessons and insights directly from real-time and past mediation efforts.

Our Results Framework and Records of Results then capture big and small achievements along the peace pathways that our engagements have taken.