ALNAP ALNAP 118d ago
Sustaining learning in lean times: challenges and opportunities for evaluations

Sustaining learning in lean times: challenges and opportunities for evaluations

The international humanitarian system is currently going through massive changes, as a result of a drastically changing funding environment. But humanitarian actors still need to learn, to improve their performance and to be accountable to crisis affected people. Generating evidence and using it is more important than ever, and evaluation is an important source of evidence for the system. But how do we ensure that evaluations are useful and of high quality amidst staff cuts and smaller M&E budgets? During this session the panelists discuss challenges and opportunities with generating and using evaluative evidence in these changing times. ALNAP presents some key insights from their newly published evaluation guide (Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action – an ALNAP guide) and other speakers will discuss their experiences of commissioning and undertaking evaluations with current constraints. The audience comes away with insights that can be applied to their evaluation and evidence-generating practice. Speakers: - Helene Juillard | Managing Director, Key Aid Consulting - Ali Buzurukov | Chief of the Evaluation and Oversight Section, UN OCHA - Zaki Ullah | Director, GLOW Consultants Introductory remarks Sarah Gharbi | Research fellow, ALNAP This event is moderated by Juliet Parker, Director, ALNAP Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: humanitarian archives, digital archives, and the problems they pose 04:55 Introductory remarks by Sarah Gharbi 09:40 Discussion with the panel 44:00 Audience Q&A Explore the full E-guide and dive into the updated criteria: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide-e-report/ Download the guide: https://alnap.org/humanitarian-learning/monitoring-evaluation/updating-our-oecd-dac-guidance/ 📚 Link to ALNAP’s OECD evaluation criteria guide in English: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide-e-report/ 📚 Link to ALNAP’s OECD evaluation criteria guide in French: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide/guide-fr/ ⏱️ Short on time? Read the summary in your preferred language: 🌐 Link to summary in English: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide/quick-read-en/ 🌐 Link to summary in French: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide/quick-read-fr/ 🌐 Link to summary in Spanish: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide/quick-read-es/ 🌐 Link to summary in Arabic: https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/evaluation-criteria-guide/quick-read-ar/ 📬 Sign up to our monthly bulletin and M&E list: http://eepurl.com/i-_RLQ 📬 You can also subscribe to our general bulletin to stay updated on upcoming resources and events: http://eepurl.com/dv90s5 ALNAP - https://alnap.org #HNPW #OECD #ALNAP #HumanitarianAction #Evaluation