Evaluation is a key tool in efforts to improve accountability and performance in the operation of the international humanitarian aid system. However, humanitarian aid has been subjected to less rigorous monitoring and evaluation procedures than those applied to development aid. As the share of...
The ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action has been monitoring the quality of evaluations of humanitarian action for the past five years. The positive news is that evaluations have become more deeply ingrained in the humanitarian sector. The not-so-good news is that the quality of the evaluations...
When it accepted the introduction of the cluster approach in pilot countries in 2005, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) called for an external evaluation to be performed after two years, to assess the mechanism’s progress and effectiveness. In 2007 the IASC designed the terms of reference...
