From Combatants to Peacemakers Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (M &E) Plan Final Version

The program covers 16 communities in 12 districts of Nepal, with a focus on Terai and hill regions. The project is effective from October 1, 2015, to March 31, 2017, and is implemented by Pro Public with the support of USAID. The main beneficiaries of the project are ex-combatants and host community members of the 16 selected communities. The program's objectives are to create social dialogue groups and community mediation centers that promote reconciliation between ex-combatants and host community members, strengthen relationships between ex-combatants and host community members through peace events, and bridge existing gender, caste, and ethnic divides. The implementation framework focuses on training beneficiaries on dialogue facilitation and mediation, making them dialogue facilitators. The team in Kathmandu will provide support to dialogue facilitators through regular visits, participation in events, and coaching via phone. The project aims to prevent/reduce violence, promote reconciliation, and expedite the social integration of ex-combatants in their communities. The geographic focus of the project is 16 communities in 12 districts, with 15 communities considered as new settlements for ex-combatants and Purandhara VDC of Dang being an old settlement. The project will bring together ex-combatants and host communities, conflict victims, Local Peace Committee members, women, community mediators, and marginalized groups, including Dalits, Muslims, and Janajatis. The project's guiding principles include a community-based approach, ensuring the participation of community members, conflict victims, and ex-combatants in the M&E process. The project will also ensure clarity by receiving timely and relevant information directly from communities, participation by ensuring the effective participation of women, ethnic groups, and marginalized groups, transparency by sharing project documents and budget with government stakeholders, and accountability by planning and executing activities in a timely manner. The theory of change for the project is that peace comes through the transformative change of a critical mass of individuals, their attitudes, behaviors, and skills. The project will teach selected individuals how to deal with conflicts in a constructive manner and facilitate understanding between different groups. At the output level, the project will bring together ex-combatants and host communities, conflict victims, and Local Peace Committee members through a people-to-people approach. The project's monitoring and evaluation plan is crucial to track progress, adapt changes in activities when needed, and determine if project activities lead to the desired outcome. The plan includes a community-based approach, ensuring the participation of community members, conflict victims, and ex-combatants in the M&E process. The project will also ensure clarity by receiving timely and relevant information directly from communities, participation by ensuring the effective participation of women, ethnic groups, and marginalized groups, transparency by sharing project documents and budget with government stakeholders, and accountability by planning and executing activities in a timely manner.