Erin McCandless will be participating as a trainer and resource person in a course on “Gender Responsive Peacebuilding” for UN staff members (June 3-6). The course aims to develop new methods for linking peacebuilding, gender responsiveness, and design, monitoring and evaluation (DM&E) of programming, linked to policy frameworks. The course is sponsored by UN Women and United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office training for UN staff, and Dr. McCandless will be leading sessions on Gender Responsive Peacebuilding for Design, Monitoring and Implementation, and participating in sessions on Economic Recovery.
Last week Dr. McCandless participated in an North-South theorist-practitioner dialogue of experts assessing the field of Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA), in Toronto, Canada. The group is aiming to advance global consensus around the status of PCIA, the theories and assumptions driving it and the critical tools of its engagement. The group will be preparing a special issue of the Journal of Peacebuildling and Development to document these issues and to move the dialogue forward. Dr. McCandless delivered a paper at the meeting on “Peacebuilding Design and Measurement in the United Nations and the New Deal”. For more information on the project, see: http://www.peacebuild.ca/en/
