ABSTRACT
This chapter explores one avenue for addressing those challenges: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). It reviews and critically assesses current M&E tools within the UN peace operations apparatus. It identifies and analyses the extant literature on M&E in policing. It also draws together the major shortcomings and challenges associated with approaches in relation to the specific M&E needs of police in peace operations. The chapter examines that the M&E approaches employed by the UN to date may be necessary but are not sufficient for the short- or longer-term needs of UN police (UNPOL). The UN's main method of evaluating peace operations performance is through Results-Based Budgeting (RBB). The utility of a benchmarking approach to M&E in peace operations has been increasingly recognised and gradually employed as a technocratic means of gauging progress towards peace consolidation, draw-down and eventual withdrawal of UN peace operations.
