Evaluations & technical assistance

Evaluations list

The scale and breadth of DARA’s field research and evaluation work gives the organisation an unparalleled overview of what works well and what does not in aid – based on direct experience and evidence from the field:


Evaluation of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) pilot phase
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The report of DARA’s evaluation of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) pilot phase has been published. The CBHA is a partnership initiative by 15 leading organisations which aims to strengthen the coordination and capacity of the NGO [...] Read more...

Evaluation of a Cross-Border Project in Ipiranga covering vulnerable unregistered populations
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The Asociación Comité Ipiranga (ACI) offers social support to unregistered rural populations that do not have access to basic public social services. DARA’s team evaluated three aspects of the support projects ACI implements: health, education, and food security [...] Read more...

Evaluation of capacity development and its impact on institutionalization of emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and Conflict/Disaster Risk Reduction (C/DRR) in the education sector in the West and Central Africa region (WCAR).
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UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) contracted 2 DARA consultants to conduct a multi-country evaluation study of its emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and conflict/disaster risk reduction (C/DRR) capacity development and institutionalization [...] Read more...

IASC Evaluation of humanitarian interventions in South and Central Somalia from 2005-2010
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This ex-post evaluation has been managed by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) supported by Danish Refugee Council on behalf of the IASC and funded by Danida, DFID, SDC, and SIDA. The Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) [...] Read more...

Inter-agency Real Time Evaluation (IA RTE) of the Humanitarian Response to the Floods in Pakistan
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This evaluation was listed by UNICEF as one of the best evaluations in recent years. The evaluation was commissioned by the Inter‐Agency Standing Committee (IASC), funded by OCHA and undertaken by a team of four evaluators between January and March 2011. [...] Read more...

Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation of the Humanitarian response to Pakistan’s Displacement Crisis in 2009
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This evaluation was listed by UNICEF as one of the best evaluations in recent years. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) commissioned an inter-agency real-time evaluation to obtain real-time analysis and feedback to better focus and adjust on-going [...] Read more...

Impact Evaluation of World Food Programme’s School Feeding Programme in Cambodia 2000-2010
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The impact evaluation of the national school feeding programme in Cambodia is commissioned by the World Food Programme. The programme is designed to benefit more than half a million of children in Cambodia’s most vulnerable areas. Through the school feeding [...] Read more...

Evaluation of DG ECHO’s action in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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DARA has been commissioned by ECHO (the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office) to carry out the “evaluation of DG ECHO’s action in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)”. The evaluation purpose is twofold. On the one hand it will look at the relevance [...] Read more...

IA-RTE Philippines of the Humanitarian Response to Typhoons Ketsana and Parma
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The IA-RTE provided a snap shot of the current situation including real-time feedback and learning to the UNCT and to the IASC locally. The main objectives will be to learn from the initial phase of the response and to identify lessons that need to be taken forward [...] Read more...

Technical Assistance to the AECID’s Humanitarian Office in the context of Haiti’s crisis and the Spanish EU Presidency
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Haiti’s earthquake hit the country on the 12th of January. The following day, the Head of the Spanish Cooperation’s (AECID) Humanitarian Office contacted DARA to receive its support for the international emergency response. Spain in the context of the EU Presidency [...] Read more...