Evaluation type
Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid Programmes and Aid Strategy in favour of Western Sahara refugees EVAL
In 1987, AECI started its intervention in the Saharawi refugee camps. Since the early days, AECI’s aid strategy has focused on food security and overall humanitarian assistance to the affected population. In the AECI’s year plan 2005-08, Spanish ODA will mostly [...] Read more...
Technical Assistance to the Organising Committee of the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security EVAL
One year after the Madrid bombs, the Club of Madrid organised a unique conference, the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security. Its purpose was to build a common agenda on how the community of democratic nations can most effectively confront [...] Read more...
Workshops on Aid Harmonisation and Conflict Prevention in Burkina Faso. Elaboration of the Study “Towards a new Era in Development Aid: Building Effective Institutional Infrastructure in LCDs” EVAL
As part of UNDP’s Workshop on aid management tools, DARA reviewed the performance of the DAD database in Afghanistan and other applications such as DCAS, UNICEF’s, DevInfo, and the Egyptian Government’s DECODE. The Secretariat of Development Policy and [...] Read more...
Assessment of the Humanitarian Situation in Sudan, and the Consequences of Inaction for the Conflict Affected Population in Darfur EVAL
The assessment study: “Sudan: an unbearable indifference” was commissioned by FRIDE .The report included an assessment of the humanitarian situation in Sudan, and the consequences of inaction for the conflict affected population in Darfur. The report analysed [...] Read more...
Security and Defence Reform in Serbia and Montenegro EVAL
The program aimed to encourage and support senior elected officials and other civilian and military leaders in Serbia-Montenegro committed to undertaking critical reform issues. The Club of Madrid brought together experienced international leaders from among the [...] Read more...
DARA presents lessons from real-time evaluations at the 26th ALNAP Meeting
ALNAP has published the report “The role of national governments in international humanitarian response to disasters” of the 26th ALNAP meeting held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16th-18th November 2010. Riccardo Polastro, Head of Evaluations at DARA, presented [...] Read more...
Tsunami Evaluation Coalition: phases one and two
On the 26th of December 2004, nearly 230,000 people died or disappeared and two million lost their homes in Asia and Africa, as a result of the worst natural hazard in recent times. Simultaneously, the largest humanitarian operation in history was initiated: the first system-wide study of a humanitarian response to be conducted since development of the approach following the Rwandan genocide. Read more...
Evaluation of the ICRC policy on Internally Displaced Persons
DARA participated in the first evaluation of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs). The evaluation was the first to look at the organization's operational position towards IDPs with the aim of [...] Read more...
Thematic Study of the Paris Declaration, Aid and Development Effectiveness
DARA's participation in the evaluation process of the Paris Declaration was a great opportunity to engage in one of the most important ongoing evaluation exercises in recent years. DARA provided the theoretical and conceptual evaluation framework for the second [...] Read more...
DARA Peer Reviews First Sector-wide Guide to Real-Time Evaluations
Guide to Real-time Evaluations of Humanitarian Action The guide to real-time evaluations (RTEs) published in March by the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), deals with one of the most demanding yet increasingly [...] Read more...