Wood, Adrian
[HerausgeberIn];
Apthorpe, Raymond J.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Borton, John
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
;
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action
Evaluating international humanitarian action
: reflections from practitioners
Beschreibung:
With the number of violent conflicts within countries increasing all the time, as well as other forms of natural and man-made complex emergencies, humanitarian intervention has become a much more frequent form of development assistance. There has also been a corresponding rise in the need to evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions. In this volume, the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Assistance (ALNAP) has compiled for the first time an examination of the experiences of, and lessons learned by, those practically engaged in humanitarian programme evaluations. ;The case studies included in this volume are drawn from four continents, including Central Asia and the Balkans, and they embrace the different kinds of humanitarian emergency that have afflicted so many people during the past decade. The volume addresses the context in which evaluations of humanitarian assistance take place; the actual process of doing evaluations; and the lessons for improving how such evaluations might be better undertaken in future.; This pioneering volume is likely to be of great practical value to agencies and individuals engaged in both the delivery of humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies and its evaluation. - Contents; 1. Introduction - The Editors ; 2. Somalia: towards evaluating Netherlands humanitarian assistance - Phil O'Keefe, Ted Kliest, John Kirkby and Wiert Flikkema ; 3. Exploring the Swedish emergency relief experience in the Horn of Africa - Adrian Wood ; 4. Evaluating Sida's complex emergency assistance in Cambodia: conflicting perceptions - Claes Lindahl ; 5. Doing study 3 of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda: the team leader's perspective - John Borton ; 6. Mission possible: six years of emergency food aid in West Africa; policy not operations, as the credibly evaluable issue - Raymond Apthorpe ; 7. Review of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' Tajikistan programme - Peter Wiles ; 8. A self evaluation of experience reviewing Australia's official assistance in response to the 1997 - 1998 Papua New Guinea drought - David A M Lea ; 9. An experimental and inclusive approach to evaluation as a lesson-learning tool: the URD Groupe work on the post Hurricane Mitch emergency - François Grunewald, Claire Pirotte and Véronique de Geoffroy ; 10. UNICEF/DFID joint evaluation of UNICEF's Kosovo emergency preparedness and response - John Telford ; 11. Conclusions - The Editors;