Evaluations
The Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding provides for the pre-, post- and long-term evaluations of Outward Bound Peacebuilding programs. A participant questionnaire and interview protocol has been developed in consultation with experts in the field, and includes a baseline evaluation, a monitoring evaluation conducted one month after the core experience, and continuing assessments one and two years after program delivery. The evaluation results are to be analyzed and reported by an independent consultant. The one year evaluation reports of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding's Sri Lanka program and the Middle East program are expected at the end of 2009.
The goals of the evaluation process are to:
- Identify and assess short- and long-term program goals.
- Establish measurable outputs, outcomes and impacts.
- Improve peacebuilding programs for greater efficacy and impact.
- Share experiences with other organizations and actors involved in peacebuilding initiatives.
- Share best practices amongst Outward Bound centers.
- Share experiences with other organizations, institutions and individual actors involved in peacebuilding initiatives.
- Establish experiential education as a proven methodology to be applied to conflict mitigation and management, reconciliation and peacebuilding.