Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding have a lot more in common than first comes to mind. We thought this would be an opportune time to highlight some of our current evaluation work that could be of particular interest and relevance to the DME for Peacebuilding community due to the similarities between our work.
The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) was established in 1997, following the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda. We aim to serve as a forum on learning, accountability and performance issues for the humanitarian sector. For instance, we hold the largest library of evaluative materials for the humanitarian sector. We base ourselves on this repository to produce lessons papers and other guidance materials.
Last year, we launched the pilot version of our Evaluation of Humanitarian Action (EHA) Guide. Now nearing the end of its 18-month pilot process, this guide offers a comprehensive look at the EHA process, offering many tips, checklists and best practice examples. See more information on the guide and its pilot process here.
In 2013, we also delved into the generation of use of knowledge and evidence in our sector. We are currently working on a discussion series exploring: ‘How to improve the quality of evidence generated through the evaluation of humanitarian action’. Notes for discussion are first circulated with our Humanitarian Evaluation Community of Practice for comment and then structured into a Method Note. There will be four notes in total, which will be combined into a small guidance document for inclusion in the EHA Guide.
We wanted to share the two that have been published to date. The first is on representative sampling in humanitarian evaluation and the second is on improving accuracy in humanitarian evaluations. The upcoming notes are on the topic of participatory evaluation and causality.
For more information on how work, please go to our website www.alnap.org.
Alexandra is a researcher at ALNAP. She leads the coordination of the pilot and feedback process for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide. She also helps coordinate and moderate the ALNAP Humanitarian Evaluation Community of Practice and provides support to a number of other evaluation-related and research projects. She completed her Master’s in Humanitarian Action (NOHA) with a specialisation in the strategic management of humanitarian action in Spain. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and South Korea as well as her home country of Canada.
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