The Alliance for Peacebuilding, Better Evidence Project, and One Earth Future organized a Digital Workshop to promote collaboration among global peacebuilding practitioners on advancing the field’s evidence-based practice. Alliance for Peacebuilding’s Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik and One Earth Future’s Conor Seyle presented findings from their recently released report: Some Credible Evidence: Perceptions about the Evidence Base in the Peacebuilding Field. Here are key themes from the event.

Development and peacebuilding is about tackling complex problems with different stakeholders in contexts that change every day. There is no way to solve these problems without failing. But we are reluctant to talk about failure, especially on the record. Veronica Olazabal from The Rockefeller Foundation, Lane Pollack from USAID, and Leslie Wingender with Humanity United recently spoke about what it takes to learn from failure as part of the InterAction Evaluation & Program Effectiveness Community of Practice.

How can we best communicate the results of an evaluation? Kat Haugh and Jenny Nulty shared new ways to effectively communicate results, make dense and difficult topics more accessible, especially when working cross-culturally, and ways to move beyond the traditional "70-page report" complex. Here are four key takeaways from the conversation.

How can we adapt our programs to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness? Rebecca Herrington spoke about how peacebuilders can use data and evidence to inform decision making and program adaptation, adjust monitoring and evaluation plans to be more user focused, and leverage systems lens to solve complex problems. Here are four key takeaways from the conversation.

Are you preparing evaluate an inter-religious peacebuilding program? Shamsia Ramadhan who is based in CRS’s East Africa Regional Office brings a wealth of knowledge to this discussion from CRS’s work.