Evaluations
Evaluation of humanitarian aid
DARA is a world leader in Real-Time and strategic evaluations of humanitarian aid Helping organizations and governments understand the impact of aid programmes through independent evaluation of humanitarian aid With field and policy expertise in more than [...] Read more...
Impact Evaluation: the World Food Programme in Cambodia
DARA has been commissioned by the World Food Programme (WFP) to carry out an impact evaluation of the national school feeding programme in Cambodia. Currently, the programme is designed to benefit more than half a million of children in Cambodia’s most vulnerable [...] Read more...
DARA participates in world’s fourth IA-RTE
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has selected DARA to carry out an Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA-RTE) of the humanitarian response to the recent typhoons Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines. The typhoons which hit the [...] Read more...
First Evaluation of International Committee of the Red Cross IDP policy
Evaluation of ICRC DARA is currently participating in the first evaluation of the International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs). The evaluation is the first to look at the organizations operational position towards [...] Read more...
Evaluation of Humanitarian Assistance to Saharawis
Evaluation of DG ECHO's Actions in the Saharawi Refugee Camps The results of DARA's recent evaluation indicate that, after more than thirty years, basic needs have yet to be met in the Saharawi Refugee camps. The organisation was selected this year by the [...] 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...
Turning Relief into Recovery
Who Helps Who and Who Decides The governments of disaster prone countries should do more to define their own priorities and not let the foreign aid system do it for them. This is just one of the findings of a new study co-authored by DARA that examines the long [...] Read more...
DARA evaluation of WFP Country Programme in Mozambique
Mid term Evaluation of the WFP Country Programme in Mozambique DARA's evaluation of the WFP Country Programme in Mozambique has found that the school feeding programme has been effective in terms of access to and retention in education. However, although it accelerates [...] Read more...