Maximizing Peace-building Potential To integrate conflict sensitivity into Citizens# Charter Afghanistan Project (CCAP), thus strengthening processes, plans and ultimately positive development outcomes.
1. What are the key drivers of conflict at the district and village levels?
2. To what degree doCDPs actively address, or unintentionally exacerbate, these underlying drivers of conflict within the specific area covered by the plans?
3. To what degree are the processes employed to develop and implement CDPs themselves conflict sensitive?
4. How can CDPs be adapted to maximise potential positive impacts on underlying drivers of conflict?
Geographic focus areas:
# Daikundi: 5 CDCs in Nili
# Bamyan: 5 CDCs in 1 district
# Herat: 5 CDCs in urban and 5 CDCs in rural (Zanda Jan)
Data gathering and analysis processes:
1. Refine scope of analysis: Agreeing on core objectives of analysis, identifying focus areas, developing and refining research questions, developing criteria for selected social organisers/ geographic focus areas.
2. Literature review: Identify key conflict drivers, actors and how CCAP intersects with these. Use this to refine research questions further.
3. Develop detailed research methodology: Identify key groups to engage, develop interview questions, identify PRA tools for community engagement (building from existing tools used in CCAP), lay out ethnical guidelines and communications plan, design training for social organisers. Methodology should allow us to capture detail on conflict profile (history of violence, social, demographic, cultural make-up etc.), key conflict actors, drivers of conflict and conflict dynamics.
4. Train social organisers: Training provided on gathering data, using detailed methodology. Probably two days in focus areas. Should include research ethics alongside use of specific tools.
5. Field work/data collection: Series of focus group discussions with different interest groups (these need to be identified through steps 1, 2 and 3 above), complemented by Key Informant Interviews with important stakeholders at local and sub-national level (mostly in the field, but potentially in Kabul also). FGDs should be led by the social organisers.
6.  Participatory analysis: Bring key field staff together to jointlyanalyse findings from field work. This would take the form of a facilitated workshop. This might focus on first agreeing on key conflict drivers in each location, and then discussing how CDPs intersect with these. It could also include reflections on the process of undertaking the analysis, which could be captured and fed back into the training outline.
7. Report writing: Draft report developed, including recommendations.
8. Validation workshop: Bringing social organisers and potentially representatives from communities to discuss and agree on headline findings and discuss implications.
9. Finalise report
Outputs:
1. Local level conflict analysis for four areas, with recommendation on how CDPs intersect with conflict issues in each location.
2. Aggregated recommendations about howCDP development and implementation processes can be adapted to better account for conflict dynamics.
3. Training module and materials for social organizers on conducting conflict analysis.
4. Final report.