Evaluating international humanitarian action: reflections from practitioners
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Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Boxes viii
Abbreviations x
ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and
Performance in Humanitarian Action xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
About the Editors and Contributors xv
Foreword xix
1 Introduction 1
Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton
Who is this book for? Iz The international humanitarian system
and trends in humanitarian assistance I'4 The growth of
humanitarian evaluation /10 Introduction to the case studies /12
The contributors /16 Learning from the case studies /17
2 Somalia: Towards Evaluating the Netherlands'
Humanitarian Assistance 19
Phil O'Keefe, TedKliest, John Kirkby and Wiert Flikkema
Objectives of the study /21 Designing the evaluation /21
Compiling the teams and preparing for work /23 Analytical
approach /25 Scope and limitations of the evaluation /i6
Approaches to the evaluation of the cases /28 Fieldwork:
understanding the situation on the ground /30 Getting to
conclusions /\$2 Writing up /34 Self evaluation /%6
Impact and follow up /38
3 Exploring the Swedish Emergency Relief Experience in
the Horn of Africa 39
Adrian Wood
Landing the contract /30. Compiling the team /41
Familiarization and preparing for the planning meeting /43
Meeting up /4s Field process: adjusting to reality /40,
Writing up /53 Feedback and finalization /54
Dissemination /5s Reflections and conclusions /\$6
4 Evaluating Slda's Complex Emergency Assistance in
Cambodia: Conflicting Perceptions 59
Claes Lindahl
The art and the science of evaluation / 59 Origins of the
mission and selection of the team /61 Coping with the Terms
of Reference /63 Not developing a methodology /6s
The narrow timeframe /66 Fieldwork /66 Report
writing /d j Lessons for humanitarian assistance evaluation /68
Conclusions: more of a science, but still mostly an art / ]2
5 Doing Study 3 of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency
Assistance to Rwanda: The Team Leader's Perspective 74
John Borton
Landing the contract /yS Losing the Team Leader and starting
work /70, Assembling the team /83 Back up and support
issues /86 Fieldwork methods /87 Preparing the draft
report /90 Preparing the final report /qs Follow up /o,8
Some concluding comments /o,9
6 Mission Possible: Six Years of WFP Emergency Food Aid
in West Africa 102
Raymond Apthorpe
Team composition /104 Team dynamics /105 Terms of
Reference and field reality /107 Relations with our client's
country directors /i 11 Fighting false socio political assumptions
and the limitations of 'consultancy' /112 Getting from evidential
findings to conclusions and then policy recommendations /114
Briefing and debriefings in Rome and in country /i 17
An independent evaluation? /120 A final proposition /120
7 Review of the International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies' Tajikistan Programme 122
Peter Wiles
Context for the review /124 Setting up the review /125
Preparations before the fieldwork /126 The fieldwork /127
Functioning of the team /128 Debriefing /128 Writing
the report /129 The report and its follow up /129
Reflections/131
8 A Self evaluation of my Experience Reviewing Australia's
Official Assistance in Response to the 1997 98 Papua
New Guinea Drought 133
David A. M. Lea
Setting up the evaluation and team formation /134
Contracts /135 Terms of Reference /135 Briefings /137
Developing methodology /138 Selection of study areas /140
Undertaking fieldwork /140 Team coherence /142
Relations with the commissioning agents /143 Writing the
report /144 Reflections on the Review process /148
9 An Experimental and Inclusive Approach to Evaluation as
a Lesson learning Tool: Groupe URD's Work on the Post
Hurricane Mitch Emergency 1S3
Frattfois Grunewald, Claire Pirotte and Veronique de Geoffroy
Initiation of the programme /153 The work of the Task
Force /155 The period prior to the mission /156
The mission /159 After the mission /163 Conclusions /168
10 UNICEF DFID Joint Evaluation of UNICEF's Kosovo
Emergency Preparedness and Response 171
John Telford
The 1999 Kosovo crisis and UNICEF strategy /174 Setting
up the evaluation and recruiting the team /175 Starting work:
reviewing the TOR and planning /176 Field methods and
organization /177 Fieldwork /179 Team dynamics /181
Coming to a team position /182 Writing up: modus
operandi /183 Debriefing and finalization /184
Reflections on method and process /185
11 Conclusions 190
Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton
The diversity of the studies /190 Lessons for the practicalities
of 'doing' humanitarian evaluations /196 Improving the
approach to humanitarian evaluations /208
References 212
Index 217
Maps, Figures and Boxes
Maps
2.1 Somalia 20
3.1 Horn of Africa 40
4.1 Cambodia 60
5.1 Rwanda 75
6.1 Liberia 103
7.1 Tajikistan 123
8.1 Papua New Guinea 139
8.2 Papua New Guinea delivery points 141
9.1 Central America 154
io. 1 Kosovo 172
Figures
1.1 Principal resource flows and routes between donors and beneficiaries
within the international humanitarian system 5
1.2 Long term trends in bilateral humanitarian assistance 8
1.3 Timeline of the case studies 14
2.1 Contrasting perceptions of agencies and recipients 32
5.1 Organizational structure of the JEEAR 77
9.1 What did we observe in the field? 162
Boxes
2.1 List of interventions selected for study 24
2.2 Checklist for case studies 27
2.3 A summary of major evaluation findings 36
3.1 Summary of the main aspects of the Terms of Reference 46
3.2 Summary of recommendations 55
5.1 Study 3 timetable 78
5.2 Composition and inputs by the Study 3 team 84
6.1 Selected recommendations of the study 118
7.1 Review recommendations 130
8.1 A summary of the Review's findings 146
9.1 Roles and actors prior to the mission 159
9.2 Summary of the conclusions and recommendations 163
10.1 Summary of the Terms of Reference for the DFID UNICEF
joint evaluation of UNICEF's Kosovo emergency preparedness
and response 173
10.2 Main conclusions and recommendations 186
11.1 Characteristics of humanitarian evaluations 198 |
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