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Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE)

An overview of MPICE, a framework for measuring conflict transformation and progress in conflict environments. Covers the purpose, organization, and sample metrics for measuring human rights.

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Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE)

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  1. Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE)

  2. Overview • Purpose of MPICE • Organization of MPICE • Sample of Human Rights Metrics

  3. Purpose of MPICE: Measuring Conflict Transformation • Conflict Drivers Motivations and means for violent conflict • Institutional Performance • Capacity of indigenous institutions to • resolve or overcome conflict • peacefully

  4. Organization of MPICE MPICE is divided into five sectors or end states: • Safe and Secure Environment • Political Moderation & Stable Governance • Rule of Law • Sustainable Economy • Social Well Being

  5. Organization of MPICE • Goal: A higher-order objective that an intervention is intended to achieve. (50) • Indicator: Variable that provides a valid means to determine whether the goal is being met. (150) • Measure: Empirical data (quantitative or qualitative) that provide a reliable method of assessing the extent to which an indicator is present or absent. (550)

  6. Data Collection Methodologies • Methodologies are selected because they are best suited to collect the data required for a given measure • Data are collected using one of four methodologies: • Content Analysis (CA) • Quantitative Data (QD) • Survey and Polling Data (S/PD) • Expert Knowledge (EK)

  7. Safe and Secure Environment • Drivers of Conflict • GOAL: • Diminish Use of National Security Forces for Political Repression • INDICATOR: • Are security forces used to repress political opposition? • MEASURES: • Number of arbitrary arrests and disappearances of opposition group members attributed to state security forces (QD) • - Percentage of public who report that they or their family have suffered abuse or excessive use of force by state security forces (S/PD)

  8. Safe and Secure Environment • Institutional Performance • GOAL: • Strengthen Accountability to Legitimate Political Authority • INDICATOR: • Do military and intelligence services respect human rights? • MEASURES: • Violations of human rights standards are investigated, adjudicated, and punished. (QD) • Citizens perceive that the military and intelligence services respect human rights. (S/PD)

  9. Rule of Law • Drivers of Conflict • GOAL: • Diminish Injustice • INDICATOR: • Is the legal system used as an instrument of repression? • MEASURES: • Detainees/prisoners are subject to torture or inhumane treatment (by identity group) (EK) • Percentage of citizens who fear law enforcement agencies will abuse them if arrested. (S/PD)

  10. Rule of Law • Institutional Performance • GOAL: • Respect for Human Rights Strengthened • INDICATOR: • Do civilian government authorities respect human rights? • MEASURES: • Number of political prisoners. (QD, EK) • Percentage of prisons and detention centers operating in compliance with international human rights standards (QD, EK)

  11. Political Moderation • Drivers of Conflict • GOAL: • Diminish Political Grievances • INDICATOR: • Are atrocities committed against opposition identity groups on a systematic basis? • MEASURES: • Number of incidents of political violence (e.g. extrajudicial killings, disappearances, destruction of property) (QD)

  12. Political Moderation • Institutional Performance • GOAL: • Strengthen Respect for Minority Rights • INDICATOR: • Do minority groups and disenfranchised populations enjoy guarantees for fundamental civil and political rights? • MEASURES: • Perception of citizens that it is possible to exercise political and civil rights (Freedom of religion/assembly/press/speech/ association) without fear of retribution (S/PD) • Percentage of citizens who feel they could file a human rights complaint without suffering reprisal (S/PD)

  13. Selection Process • Match your strategic goals to generic MPICE goals • Select indicators that are valid representations of the goals • Identify measures that tap the essence of the indicator in your context • Can the data required actually be collected? • If not, use a different methodology

  14. Tailoring Process • Word the measures you have selected so they conform to the context • In Haiti “violent armed groups” equate to gangs • Identify the level at which the data should be collected (e.g. national, regional, provincial) • Determine how often the data should be collected (monthly, quarterly, annually)

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