OUR SERVICES

Information-based Solutions

Design and implementation of research projects and assessments to inform peacebuilding programming.
Production of data-informed context insight and learning documentation, including case studies, success stories, lessons learned, and best practices.
Design and delivery of tailored context orientation workshops for local and international organizations to help understand localized dynamics, security configurations, political make-up, economic resources as well as the drivers of tensions and conflicts, especially for newly recruited staff.

Effective Peacebuilding Programming Solutions

Technical Assistance in designing and implementing peacebuilding initiatives as well as major peacebuilding events, including providing facilitation and moderation services.
Deployment of professional mediators in complex dialogue/mediation processes.
Provision of technical support to governmental agencies, especially those with peacebuilding-relevant mandates, to develop and implement peacebuilding strategies.

Empowerment Solutions

Capacity-building for governmental agencies, on a variety of technical and operational topics.
Capacity-building for peacebuilding actors in different peacebuilding processes, as well as mentoring and coaching services on critical thematic areas.
Organizational and institutional development services, to improve the operational capacity of peacebuilding actors, mainly local NGOs and civil society organizations.
Development of peacebuilding curricula targeting specific community segments.

Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Solutions

Provision of M&E technical assistance including but not limited to: design of M&E tools, development of results frameworks, M&E relevant reporting, data protection, retention and control protocols, in addition to capacity building for M&E staff, mainly for local organizations.
Design and implementation of baseline and end line project evaluations as well as third party monitoring and evaluation.

How do we work?

The convictions that guide us:

1. Effective peacebuilding solutions are rooted in reliable and relevant information. We promote adapted and adaptive data as key to exerting adequate solutions to conflicts. PPO provides in-depth analyses and produces information to help peacebuilding actors design insightful and innovative solutions.

2. There is no standardized answer to the question “What works and what does not work in peacebuilding”. The extensive knowledge, experience and network of our team constitute an adept resource to tailor suitable solutions to mitigate and prevent conflicts and support peacebuilding actors in their journey towards positive peace. We consider ourselves connectors; we foster cooperation between different actors, collect different ideas, merge different approaches and align different visions, in order to create mutually impactful programming.

3. We believe that empowering peace actors is key to laying groundwork for effective and sustainable peacebuilding efforts. Our empowerment solutions embrace a complete cycle. We create development strategies for individuals, community and organizations, and we design and apply empowerment solutions based on their needs. To empower relevant actors, we first asses their capacities in order to tailor our response to their needs. In addition, our capacity-building services are paired with mentoring and coaching services as a follow-up mechanism. We believe that this contributes to the sustainability and impact of our services.

4. We envision our work as a process more than as a product; therefore, we highly value the learnings that can be extracted from past and current peacebuilding efforts. PPO has a deep organizational commitment to excellence in monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding interventions. Thorough monitoring allows for immediate adaptations and strategic re-directions as needed, and comprehensive evaluations constitute essential material for learning. We use and permanently work on the development of innovative tools that can best capture the progress and impact of peacebuilding interventions.