Reports

A selection of reports produced by Valid Evaluations on evaluative work with programmes.

• A Multi-Year Thematic Evaluation of DFID’s Multi-Year Humanitarian Funding Approach  in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan

• A Multi-Year Thematic Evaluation of DFID’s Multi-Year Humanitarian Funding Approach in Sudan

• The impact of displacement on gender relations and the roles of women: the case of Afridi IDPs from FATA, Pakistan

• A Multi- Year Thematic Evaluation of DFID’s Multi- Year Humanitarian Funding Approach in Ethiopia

• The contributions of early emergency response and resilience investments to helping people cope with crisis: A study of the 2014-16 drought in Sitti and West Hararghe Zones, Ethiopia.

• Can’t afford to be sick. Assessing the full cost of ill-health in North Kivu, Eastern DR Congo.

• A Multi- Year Thematic Evaluation of DFID’s Multi- Year Humanitarian Funding Approach in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Counting the cost: assessing the full economic cost of ill-health in West Darfur, Sudan.

• A Multi- Year Thematic Evaluation of DFID’s Multi- Year Humanitarian Funding Approach in Sudan

• Thematic evaluation of MYHF in the Sudan: Formative report

• The Economic Case for Early Humanitarian Response to the Ethiopia 2015/2016 Drought

• Building resilience and managing risk in fragile and conflict-affected states: A thematic evaluation of DFID’s multi-year approaches to humanitarian action in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen.

• Thematic evaluation of DFID's MYHF in Ethiopia: Formative report

• Report of the Inter-agency Humanitarian Evaluation (IAHE) of the Response to the Crisis in South Sudan 2015

• IAHE Evaluation of the Response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, 2014

• IASC RTE of the Horn of Africa Drought 2012

• Evaluation of AUSAID’s response to the Horn of Africa Drought Emergency (looking at the appropriateness, efficiency and effectiveness of the response) 2012

• DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal RTE in Ethiopia and Kenya, 2011

• Evaluation of the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) emergency response to the Balkans crisis of 1999, in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

• DEC evaluation of the emergency response to the floods in Mozambique of 2000

• Independent evaluation of UNHCR’s activities in meeting the rights and protection needs of refugee children. Findings were presented at EXCOM 2001 and the evaluation was described as the best humanitarian evaluation of the year by UNHCR’s then Head of Evaluations

• DEC evaluation of the agencies’ response to the food security crisis in southern Africa in 2002/03

• Evaluation of the DFID-IFRC Institutional Strategic Partnership 1999-2001

• Evaluation of the DFID-ICRC Institutional Strategic Partnership 1999-2002

• Evaluation of the DFID-UNICEF Programme of Cooperation to Strengthen UNICEF Programming as it applies to Humanitarian Response, 2000-2005

• DEC evaluation of the Tsunami Crisis response. This involved a team of 12 people, looking at expenditure of £350 million in seven affected countries

Publications

Below is a list of work that Valid Evaluations staff has published, contributed to or collaborated on

• Hallam, A. and F. Bonino, (2013), Using Evaluation for a Change: Insights from humanitarian practitioners. http://www.alnap.org/resource/8980.aspx

• Hallam, A. (2011) ‘Harnessing the Power of Evaluation in Humanitarian Action: an initiative to improve understanding and use of evaluation’ ALNAP Working Paper. London: ALNAP/ODI.

• Collins, S., Dent, N., Binns, P., Bahwere, P., Sadler, K., Hallam, A., (2006) “Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children”, Lancet

• Hallam, A. (1998) “Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance Programmes”, ODI Good Practice Review,

• Hallam, A. (1996) "Cost-effectiveness Analysis: A Useful Tool for the Assessment and Evaluation of Relief Programmes?" ODI Network Paper, April 1996.

• Borton et al. Humanitarian Aid and Effects, The International response to conflict and genocide: lessons from the Rwanda experience - Study 3 of the Joint evaluation of emergency assistance to Rwanda. DANIDA/ODI, London 1996.