Evaluation of the Nonviolent Peaceforce Project with the Civilian Protection Component of the International Monitoring Team in Mindanao, Philippines

On 27 March 2014, after over forty years of Moro insurgency in Mindanao, the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro. An International Monitoring Team was put in place in 2004 to monitor the agreement, adding a unique Civilian Protection Component (CPC) in 2009. The CPC is led by three local NGOs and an international NGO (Nonviolent Peaceforce - NP). In January 2014, NP awarded mediatEUr and Initiatives for International Dialogue a contract to carry out an impact evaluation of its programme in support of the CPC. This report is the result of such evaluation, aimed at assessing NP's lessons to date from the CPC and deliberate future directions.