Real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s response to the Syrian refugee emergency in Jordan, Lebanon and northern Iraq
As the Syrian refugee emergency continues to escalate, with the 1 million mark reached in March, UNHCR has initiated a real-time evaluation of its response, focusing particularly on those countries receiving the largest numbers of refugees. The primary purpose [...] Read more...
ALNAP Meeting: Who is this evidence for? 
Riccardo Polastro, Head of Evaluations at DARA, speaks at the ALNAP Evidence and Knowledge meeting March 2013. Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Chad
WFP-UNHCR Mixed Method Impact Evaluation in Chad The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Chad CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCRCOUNTRY ChadTEAM Pierre Leguéné* Covadonga [...] Read more...
ALNAP: A call for evidence-based decision-making in humanitarian response
Source: ALNAP By Riccardo Polastro The ALNAP 2013 Annual Meeting held in March focused on evidence following the increasing demand of donors and humanitarian agencies for evidence-based and measurable responses. Evidence of needs and how we respond to [...] Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Bangladesh
WFP‐UNHCR Food Assistance Impact Evaluation in Bangladesh The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Bangladesh CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCR COUNTRY Bangladesh [...] Read more...
Study: How to Define and Measure Value for Money in the Humanitarian Sector
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and one of its long-standing partners in contexts strained by armed conflicts, the International Committee if the Red Cross (ICRC) have commissioned InDevelop, in collaboration with GRM and DARA, [...] Read more...
How to improve humanitarian aid evaluation practices
Following the London, Geneva and Washington ALNAP Community of Practice workshops within the context of the Strengthening Humanitarian Evaluation Capacities initiative, in DARA we hosted one in Madrid on January 31st. A small but representative group of the Spanish [...] Read more...
Workshop: Strengthening humanitarian evaluation capacities
DARA will host an ALNAP workshop for Spanish-based evaluators 31st January- Strengthening evaluation capacities: Consultation and peer-learning with evaluators. The workshop will be an opportunity for evaluators to meet and share the practical issues facing [...] Read more...
Post-conflicts and post-disaster needs assessments: Development of capacity and tools
EuropeAid has awarded a five-member consortium, of which DARA is a partner, the project: "Post-conflict and post-disaster needs assessment: development of assessment capacity and tools". The consortium is led by Particip, and is composed of the European Center [...] Read more...
Evaluation of Rapid Response to Population Movements (RRMP) Programme
DARA has been selected to carry out the Evaluation of the Rapid Response to Population Movements (RRMP) Programme for UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC suffers one of the most protracted humanitarian crisis in the world. The [...] Read more...
