Evaluations
DARA’s IA-RTE Philippines preliminary findings
DARA will publish a report in the following weeks on its Inter-Agency-Real-Time Evaluation (IA-RTE), commissioned by OCHA, of the humanitarian response to typhoons Ketsana and Parma, which swept through the Philippines in September and October 2009. Lying [...] Read more...
Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation (IA-RTE) of the Humanitarian Response to Typhoons Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines
During the third quarter of 2009, three typhoons swept across the Philippines. Typhoons Ketsana and Parma struck on the 26th of September and on the 3rd of October, causing extensive flooding. Typhoon Mirinae caused further casualties and destruction when it struck [...] Read more...
Evaluations of DIPECHO Actions Plans in Central America
DG ECHO selected DARA in 2007 to evaluate the DIPECHO Action Plans in Central America in order to analyse how their programmes have helped the at risk population and the institutions prepare and respond to subsequent Disasters. Since 1990, more than ten million [...] Read more...
Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation of the humanitarian response to Pakistan’s 2009-2010 Displacement Crisis
DARA launches its report on the Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA RTE) of the humanitarian crisis that affected Pakistan from mid 2009 until 2010, the largest internal displacement the world has experienced this century. The report, commissioned by the Inter [...] 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...
Mid term Evaluation of the WFP Country Programme in Mozambique
Members of DARA were commissioned to assess the WFP Country Programme in Mozambique. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the degree to which objectives had been achieved according to UNEG’s evaluation criteria [link to UNEG site]. Mozambique remains [...] Read more...
Inter-Agency Standing Committee Real-Time Evaluation in Mozambique
A group of Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) agencies commissioned DARA to carry out a real-time evaluation (RTE) of the response to the Zambezi river floods and Cyclone Favio in February 2007. Being one of the first of its kind, this evaluation formed [...] 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...
Evaluations of DG ECHO’s Actions in the Saharawi Refugee Camps
In 2009, DARA was selected by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department to evaluate its humanitarian assistance to Saharawi refugees displaced by the conflict over Western Sahara. The three-month study, between April and June 2009, was the first [...] 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...