Design

• Does your baseline development process involve partners, key stakeholders and communities affected by PVE?
• Have other relevant baseline assessments, needs assessments and studies been reviewed to inform the development process?

General

• Does the baseline methodology allow for a mixed-methods approach?
• Is the baseline able to collect quantitative and qualitative data?
• Does the baseline methodology allow for flexibility to add or adapt the framing of your intervention?

Risk and conflict sensitivity

• Have risks in data collection and analysis been considered in the methodology?
• Are necessary protocols in place for carrying out the baseline (such as consent forms)?
• Have questions been tested to ensure they are appropriate and safe to ask in the context?
• Are the identities and data of baseline participants protected?

VE/PVE factors and dynamics

• Does the baseline look at social, political, economic, cultural, and psychological factors and not only those directly related to the project objectives?
• Does the baseline look at structural and institutional PVE dynamics (inequalities, legal frameworks, policies, etc.)?
• Does the baseline include information on perceptions towards state institutions (particularly regarding security, human rights and corruption)?
• Does the baseline look at social PVE dynamics (such as family relationships, inter-group tensions, stigma, marginalisation, gender norms, etc.)?
• Does the baseline look at collective sense of injustice?
• Does the methodology allow for weighting and prioritisation of PVE factors and dynamics to aid in understanding which issues are more salient?
• Does the methodology ask questions about how respondents see the factors interrelate?
• Does the evaluation methodology allow for more general feedback which could be relevant to PVE when examined within the context holistically?
• Do gender norms and expectations increase vulnerability to VE of individuals or groups?
• Based on their gender, age and other identity factors, are some individuals or groups more vulnerable to being victims of VE?

Enabling environment

• Does the baseline assess the actual level or risk regarding VE groups in the context?
• Does the baseline reference presence or activity of VE groups in each context?

Resilience

• Does the baseline examine sources of resilience (why people are not engaging in VE)?
• Does the baseline examine existing mechanisms for mediating violence/tensions within a context?
• Does the baseline look at who plays key roles in PVE within the community/target institution, etc.?
• What role do gendered social norms play in supporting resilience?

• Have partners, key stakeholders and communities affected by PVE validated the data?
• Have gender dynamics been considered in the analysis?
• Have other context and conflict dynamics been considered in the analysis?
• Are PVE factors weighted in analysis to develop a better understanding of which factors are more salient to PVE and how these interact?