Paula Garb
Director
Georgia-Abkhazia Project
January 2000

"Action Evaluation is a methodology to enable all participants across projects to recognize the motivations, values, and interests necessary to negotiate consensus on shared goals and promote reflexive evaluation among key stakeholders as they move forward.

This method has been crucial to our distinctive second track diplomacy successes. It has helped us chart our goals and plans as we go along, kept us on track, pushed us to keep our promises to each other, and signaled us to switch gears when necessary. Action Evaluation is more than an effective process to articulate goals and gather data systematizing that is normally done in the design and implementation of conflict resolution processes. Action Evaluation process and content enable participants to recognize the motivations, values and interests necessary to negotiate consensus on shared goals so as to promote reflexive evaluation among key stakeholders as they move forward. This methodology will be a vital tool for team building and conflict resolution in developing real coordination among projects involved in the Georgian-Abkhazia peace process."