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Monitoring and evaluations

Evaluations are a key management tool used to support the decision-making, accountability and learning in the secretariat of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Below, you can find links to secretariat procedures with regards to evaluations, including specific evaluation reports on different issues, as well as National Society self-assessment reports.

Evaluation

The evaluation function enables the International Federation to measure the outcomes and impact of its programmes and operations, learn from experience, take informed decisions, and account for its actions, thereby improving its capacity to fulfill the mission to improve the lives of vulnerable people.

The objectives of the evaluation function are to:

  • provide an objective basis for assessing impact
  • contribute to improving policies, programmes, projects, and processes by identifying and disseminating the lessons to be learnt from experience and by making recommendations drawn from an evidence base
  • help provide shared accountability for the achievement of the International Federation's objectives

Guiding procedural documents

The Operational framework for evaluations operationalizes the evaluation mandate of the department by clarifying principles, concepts, terms and processes of evaluation as applied by the International Federation. It should guide specific evaluations and serve as a source of general information for the staff of the International Federation, for concerned parties in regional delegation and National Societies, and for external consultants.

The Handbook for monitoring and evaluation is designed to provide International Federation, staff of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and implementing partners with the necessary information to be able to design, manage and support a results oriented monitoring and evaluation system for both emergency and development operations.

Institutional evaluations

Project/programme evaluations and reviews


Africa

Impact assessments

External evaluations

  • Tsunami Evaluation Coalition: thematic evaluations
    • Joint Evaluation of the International Response to the Indian Ocean response:
      Synthesis report
    • Coordination of international humanitarian assistance in tsunami-affected countries
    • The role of needs assessment in the tsunami response
    • Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities
    • Links between relief, rehabilitation and development in the tsunami response
    • Funding the tsunami response

National Society self-assessments

The National Society self-assessment process was initiated by the secretariat of the International Federation at the request of the governing board to monitor and support Federation members in achieving the characteristics of a well-functioning National Society. The objectives of the self-assessment process are to:

  • assist individual societies to identify their strengths/weaknesses, demonstrate their commitment for change, and prioritise actions in line with Strategy 2010, in order to better fulfill their mission to improve the lives of vulnerable people.
  • support the Federation Governing Board in policy and strategy making by providing the means to annually review members’ performance against the Characteristics of a Well-Functioning National Society.
  • contribute to organizational shared learning and enable member societies to compare their status with regard to global trends, be they thematic or geographical.

Reports

Questionnaires

Annexes