October 11, 2011

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has published a video on the Real-Time Evaluation of the humanitarian response to the 2010 Pakistan floods carried out by DARA, featuring Riccardo Polastro, Head of Evaluations at DARA. The video underlines the key challenges the humanitarian response faced in Pakistan.

Claude Hilfiker, former senior evaluation officer OCHA; Currently, Head of Evaluation at WIPO

This Inter-agency Real Time Evaluation in Pakistan is the first to use a workshop as the main feedback mechanism which allows people to actively participate in the framing of recommendations, and hoping therefore they will also better implement them in order to improve the response.

Manuel Bessler, former head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Pakistan; currently, Head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit

It is a very important exercise that has ownership, that was discussed, that was negotiated, that was fought through and saw through by people that work here, that stay here and have to carry on.