Evaluation
Evaluations of humanitarian programmes, which analyse their effectiveness, appropriateness and sustainability, have become more common in response to greater demand for transparency and quality. Though they are a means of achieving accountability, above all evaluations are an opportunity to learn – we evaluate in order to evolve.
Groupe URD is regularly approached by humanitarian organisations (NGOs, UN agencies, the ICRC, etc.) and donors to evaluate their activities.
Evaluations can focus on a programme or project being run in a particular geographical area, the impact of sector-based aid in several different countries, or the overall response of a number of actors following a large-scale disaster.
An evaluation can be carried out during the different phases of the project cycle (initial needs assessment, mid-term evaluation, ex-post evaluation, etc.) and with varying frequency and duration.
Groupe URD’s evaluation methodology is in keeping with good practice as promoted by ALNAP, ODI, OCDE/DAC and the Quality COMPAS, the quality assurance method that we have developed. Our evaluations are carried out to very high standards, with the aim of producing results which can be used in practice.
Groupe URD is a member of the Société Française d’Evaluation and the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
If you would like us to evaluate one of your programmes or your organisation, contact François Grünewald
Evaluations carried out by Groupe URD:
- External evaluation of the “PEAR+” programme in DRC, for UNICEF, from 9 January to 17 February 2012
- Evaluation of a programme by the Association pour le Développement Rural du Batha in Chad, june 2011
- Evaluation of DG ECHO’s activities in urban contexts, July 2011– March 2012
- Monitoring and Evaluation of the LRRD – REPI 2010 programme (following the floods of July 2010 in the Centre Nord and Est regions of Burkina Faso) , November 2011 – November 2012, for the EU delegation in Burkina Faso
- Post Distribution Monitoring for WFP in Chad, October - December 2011
- The UNDAC evaluation, June 2011 - December 2011
- Evaluation for the implementation of Livelihoods programmes in Port-au-Prince for the French Red Cross, May-June 2011
- Evaluation of the Project to support the stabilisation of Eastern Chad (PAS), for AFD, February 2011 – December 2012
- External evaluation of the post-earthquake WASH response in Haiti,, November – December 2010, for Action Contre la Faim
- Lessons learned from Haiti, December 2010– April 2011
- Evaluation of French food aid in Southern Sudan, October-November 2010
- Evaluation of reconstruction and rehabilitation projects funded by Swiss Solidarity in Haiti, September 2010 – June 2012
- Learning support exercise in Haiti for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), August-October 2010
- Evaluation of emergency programmes funded by the Fondation de France following the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 , July 2010
- Evaluation of a WASH project by ACF in the Ivory Coast, june 2010
- Evaluation of the environmental impact of ACF’s programmes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, May 2010
- Real-time evaluation in Haiti , February 2010, for the Strategic Affairs Directorate of the French MoD
- Real-time evaluation in Haiti , January 2010, for the IASC
- Cluster Evaluation Phase II, July 2009 - March 2010, in partnership with GPPI, for the IASC
- Evaluation of Concern Worldwide’s programmes, July 2009
- Evaluation of the Collectif Asie Enfants Isolés, February - May 2009
- Evaluation of the DG ECHO Food Aid Budget Line, November 2008 - July 2009, for DG ECHO
- Evaluation of the relevance and the effects of the ICRC’s position on internally displaced persons, December 2008 - December 2009
- Evaluation of the "Nyunzu Rural Economic Recovery Project", August 2008, for Dan Church Aid in DRC
- Evaluation of the partnership between ECHO and UNRWA, July - October 2008
- Evaluation of a project by CARE-France in Cuba, March 2008
- Evaluation of national rehabilitation programmes in poor neighbourhoods, Tunisia, October - December 2007, for the French Development Agency
- Evaluation of the WFP’s "Oil-For-Girls-Education" programme, August - November 2007, for the WFP
- Evaluation of a Water and sanitation project in northern Afghanistan, for CORDAID, April 2007
- Evaluation of a Water and sanitation programme for Solidarités, Yogyakarta, Java, March 2007
- Evaluation of ASMAE’s Reading class programme in India, January - February 2007
- Real-time evaluation of emergency relief response in the Horn of Africa, Summer - Autumn 2006, for the IASC
- Evaluation of Christian Aid’s response in 2004 - 2005 to the food crisis in the Sahel, 2006 - 2007
- Evaluation of the ECHO-ICRC partnership, January - September 2006
- Review of the WFP’s needs assessment methods, 2005 - 2006
- Evaluation of aid from the French state to countries affected by the earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004, 2005 - 2006
- Strategic post-crisis evaluation for the French Development Agency, 2005 - 2006
- Evaluation of Dutch Humanitarian assistance in the Great Lakes Region, May - November 2005
- Evaluation of the Emergency relief programme for families most affected by the conflict and the economic crisis in the Central African Republic, February - March 2005, for Secours Catholique
- Evaluation of the Migration and Local Development (MIDEL) project and joint-development activities which preceded it, 2004 - 2005, in partnership with Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament
- Evaluation of UNICEF programmes in Darfur, September - October 2004
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Article in the review Humanitarian Aid on the Move n°2: « What is evaluation for? The missing links in the evolution of humanitarian actors. »
