Strategic Religious Engagement Evaluation Toolkit Webinar
Peace practitioners and government officials have demonstrated increased interest in strategic religious engagement (SRE), or the process of collaborating and partnering with religious communities and/or faith-based organizations (FBOs) to advance shared humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding goals.
Despite this growing attention in faith-based partnerships, however, questions persist about their efficacy. Many reports and analyses have documented the wide and diverse range of projects now being implemented with religious communities and FBOs. Far fewer efforts have been made to systematically evaluate why and under what conditions such initiatives do or do not contribute to their intended outcomes.
Responding to the need to strengthen the evidence base for SRE, the U.S. Institute of Peace developed the Strategic Religious Engagement Evaluation Toolkit (StREET). This toolkit is one of the first frameworks designed specifically to assist with the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of programs that involve governmental and non-governmental partnerships with faith actors. It outlines how to track the progress, performance, and impact over a specific time period in order to assess the effectiveness of strategic religious engagement (SRE), or the process of collaborating with religious communities, institutions, and/or faith-based organizations (FBOs) to advance shared humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding goals.
What You'll Learn
- Gain a deeper appreciation for the roots of strategic religious engagement (SRE) and what it means today.
- Strengthen your knowledge of best practices for monitoring and evaluation.
- Recognize, through examples, ways to adopt an SRE lens for monitoring and evaluation.
- Identify sample tools to incorporate into your own practice.
