Monitoring and evaluation in police capacity building operations: ‘women as uniform?’

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The monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of police capacity building operations is becoming increasingly important as the international agenda expands to sustainable peace building. This paper argues that M&E practice in police capacity building inherently impacts upon the effectiveness of reform. Accordingly, we critically analyse the utilisation of conventional M&E approaches. We apply this critical analysis to the issue of gender‐sensitive reform, as an example of the social aspects of police capacity building operations - illustrating the dangers of crude ‘objective’ measurements in complex social change processes. In conclusion we propose the incorporation of participatory approaches in the M&E of police capacity building.View full textDownload full textKeywordsmonitoring and evaluation, police reform, capacity building, local ownership, gender‐sensitive reform, participationRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2011.581440