OTHER EVENT – Preventing deadlocked or violent elections: lessons from Kenya

Quaker House Square Ambiorix 50, Brussels

Efforts by the international community to prevent election violence have evolved over the last few years. There is broad recognition today that prevention mechanisms need to address root causes of violence through a more coherent approach. Quaker organisations such as the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) have contributed to reducing post-election violence in Kenya by […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – M&E Thursday Talk – Critical Friends: Using external actors to catalyze reflection

'Critical Friends: Using external actors to catalyze reflection' is part of a webinar series which DME for Peace are hosting. DME for Peace is a global community of practitioners, evaluators, donors, and academics who share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding programs. Through greater collaboration and transparency we hope […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – EPLO Brown Bag Lunch with the Crisis Management Initiative – Experiences with the Critical Friend method for Monitoring & Evaluation

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

For those of us working on peace, development and security, M&E is ultimately a way for organisations and funders to ensure that our engagements in already complicated, fragile and high-risk contexts are as effective as possible and avoid doing harm. The Critical Friend method emerged to respond to the limitations of traditional evaluations on effectiveness […]

CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE NETWORK – Strategic review of EUMM Georgia: Roundtable on Civil Society Perspectives

Tbilisi

The European External Action Service (EEAS), based in Brussels, will shortly carry out a strategic review of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia) as the current mandate of the Mission runs until 14 December 2018. The Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) has been hosting a series of meetings enabling civil society to […]

OTHER EVENT – Better learning for better results: Guiding steps for the design, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding programming

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

How can the peacebuilding field tackle the unique challenges of peacebuilding evaluation and learning? The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC), the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and EPLO invite you to a lunchtime roundtable meeting to present and discuss the PEC’s draft Guiding Steps for Peacebuilding. The document aims to help organisations to enhance how they conduct […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Peace and Stability Strategies for the Private Sector in Afghanistan

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

In the Joint Communication ‘Elements for an EU Strategy on Afghanistan’ published in July 2017, the European Commission and the European External Action Service emphasised the need to support economic development and regional connectivity (i.e. improving transit, transport and energy corridors). The Afghan government has been stressing the need for investment in the construction, transport […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – After the Summit: what’s next in post-Abidjan AU-EU relations in 2018?

European Peacebuilding Liaison Office Avenue de Tervueren 12, Brussels

Relations between the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) are at a turning point in their history. The EU is pushing for a renewed partnership that entails an enhanced responsibility from its African partners, who in turn stress the need not to base the relationship on migration-related issues. The fifth AU-EU Summit, which took […]

CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE NETWORK EVENT – Strategic Review of EUMM Georgia: Gathering Civil Society Perspectives

Brussels Brussels

The European External Action Service (EEAS), based in Brussels, is currently carrying out a Strategic Review of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia) as the current mandate of the Mission runs until 14 December 2018. The Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) has been hosting a series of meetings enabling civil society to […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Early action and the Responsibility to Protect: exchange of views with civil society

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The concept of Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has become an important part of the normative framework related to peace and conflict. While its operationalisation remains a challenge, the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and civil society organisations have developed new policies, tools and mechanisms to improve the use and effectiveness of this principle. […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Waking Up White Reading Group

Quaker House Square Ambiorix 50, Brussels

On Wednesday evenings, starting on Wednesday 21 February 2018, the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) is organising a reading group to explore race and privilege using the book 'Waking Up White and finding myself in the story of race' by Debbie Irving. Would you like to explore issues of race and privilege and what […]