Haiti Learning and Accountability Portal
If you have anything you would like to upload to this page please send it to alnap@alnap.org
Le portail des actions d'apprentissage et de responsabilisation à Haïti est disponible en français
The scale of the devastation caused by the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 has resulted in massive relief and recovery operations being undertaken by several ALNAP members.
This page provides a shared platform for a structured strategic overview of ongoing and planned learning and accountability efforts by agencies operating in Haiti. The site aims to encourage complementarity amongst agencies undertaking such work, through sharing of approaches, contacts, key resources and evaluation plans.
The portal is intended to function alongside the operational information-management site hosted by One Response. The Haiti One Response site, is being used by field staff for real time knowledge sharing and practical resources with a shorter shelf-life, whilst the ALNAP Portal provides an overall strategic overview.
The Government of the Republic of Haiti have also launched the Haiti Reconstruction Platform
It is our hope that these complementary initiatives will contribute to more informed, coordinated efforts to assessing and improving performance in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.
The ALNAP forum is also available for all ALNAP Full and Observer members, as an online space to share experiences, discussion and useful information about the ongoing efforts.
Current initiatives
Haiti earthquake response: Context Analysis
Evaluations
Evaluation of Australian funded programmes in response to the Haiti earthquake - AusAID
Terms of reference: attachment A: attachment C
Key contact - Cathie Hurst, Manager, Caribbean Section, AusAID Catherine.Hurst@ausaid.gov.au
Inter-Agency, Real Time Evaluation - OCHA
Start date - Feb 2010
Key Contacts - Claude Hilfiker, Senior Evaluation Officer, OCHA hilfiker@un.org
The ALNAP secretariat is involved in this initiative including serving on the working group, alnap@alnap.org
Key Documents - Terms of Reference/ Evaluation Framework
- Call for Expression of Interest
Joint independent evaluation of humanitarian response in Haiti - CARE International
CARE International is the lead agency for a joint evaluation of the response for three international NGOs to the Haiti earthquake. The evaluation will examine response systems and policies and their results in delivering quality services to people affected by the disaster
Start Date: September
Key Contacts: klove@care.org
Real Time Evaluation - Oxfam
Start date - Feb 2010
Key Contact - Dr Vivien Walden, Global Humanitarian MEL Adviser, Oxfam GB vwalden@oxfam.org.uk
Oxfam surveys Haitians Ahead of Crucial New York Conference on Haiti- Jobs seen as key
Desk study and Workshop - Disasters Emergency Committee
To cover all 13 DEC Member Agency programmes.
Start date - June 2010
Contact: Annie Devonport, adevonport@dec.org.uk
Real Time Evaluation - IFRC
To assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the coordination and management systems of the Haiti earthquake response operation, focusing on both relief and early recovery concerns.
Start date - 6 April 2010
Contact: Josse Gillijns, josse.gillijns@ifrc.org
Key Documents: Terms of Reference
Real Time Evaluation - Christian Aid
The aim of the Real-Time Evaluation is to enable Christian Aid and its partners to reflect and learn from their experiences to date in order to influence the next phase of programmes
Dates- May 23rd - June 8th
Contact- Kate Ferguson, kferguson@christian-aid.org
Key documents- Executive Summary; Terms of Reference
Rapid Environmental Evaluation - USAID
Recognizing that environmentally unwise relief and recovery decisions would lead to further negative impacts on disaster survivors, USAID commissioned a Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment from 16/02/10 to 05/03/10.
Key Documents: Final Report
Real Time Evaluation - French Ministry of Defence’s Strategic Affairs Directorate and Groupe URD
To review the national and international actors and bodies involved in the response; evaluate the level of coherence between needs and the emergency relief provided; speak to beneficiaries and to try to understand how they perceive the response and to analyse the response in terms of defence and security.
Contact- François Grünewald, Groupe URD- fgrunewald@urd.org
Key documents- Final Report
Real Time Evaluation - Tearfund
Tearfund are conducting an RTE for their phase 2 response in Haiti (the first 6 months). The evaluation team, led by Hugh Goyder, have completed the in country work already and expect the report to be finalised over the next few weeks.
Contact- Ali Claxton, Tearfund Operations Officer - Haiti, alison.claxton@tearfund.org
Real-Time Review- The Humanitarian Coalition (Canada)
Dates: 18-25th May
Coverage:Four coalition members in Port Au Prince and Léogane
Contact: nicolas.moyer@humanitariancoalition.ca
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – Agenzia Italiana per la Risposta alle Emergenze (AGIRE)
To assess the response of 9 member agencies of the Italian umbrella organisation.
Start date: September 2010
Contact: Marco Bertotto, m.bertotto@agire.it
Key documents: Terms of Reference
Real Time Evauation of German Assistance to Haiti - Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development & Foreign Ministry, Germany
As part of a year long evaluation of 'German Humanitarian Assistance Abroad', a Real Time Evaluation in Haiti will be one of six country case studies.
Key dates: First RTE deployment to Haiti- May/ June 2010; Second deployment- Sept./ Oct.
Report Due- Jan 2011
Contact: Karin Roggenbuck, karin.roggenbuck@bmz.bund.de
Evaluation of the Global Emergency Relief by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Haiti will feature as one of the key case studies in the evaluation of SDC's worldwide humanitarian operations.
Key dates: Field visit to Haiti and Dominican Republic 22nd Aug - 5th Sept.
Contact: Claude de Ville de Goyet, Particip GmbH, claudedevilledegoyet@gmail.com
Key documents: Draft ToR/ Approach Paper
Evaluation of programmes funded by the Fondation de France - Groupe URD
The Fondation de France is the main mechanism to collect and redistribute resources collected from the French public.
Dates: 13th - 29th July
Contact: François Grünewald - fgrunewald@urd.org
Operational Support Missions
OCHA Information Support Team Responsible for the Haiti One Response Site
Contacts: ocha.haiti.im@gmail.com or Matt Hewett - hewett@un.org ; Bruno Ngandu - ngandukazadi@un.org
Interaction-ICVA NGO Coordination Cell - For more details contact Manisha Thomas at ICVA manisha@icva.ch or Linda Poteat at Interaction lpoteat@interaction.org.
Contact tel. in Haiti- +(509) 3485-7374
Disaster Response Support Service Bioforce and RedR launched their Disaster Response Support Service in Haiti with a joint 2 week assessment to determine priority learning and capacity building needs in the worst affected areas.
The Disaster Response Support Service provides a training programme in French, English and Creole in the following areas: Logistics -Supply chain; Fleet management; WASH; Shelter; Telecommunications; Safety/security.
Documents: Project Overview (French & English)
Contact- Cheryl.McDonald@redr.org.uk
HAP International Following the work of an initial Quality and Accountability Support Team, a HAP team will be deployed to Haiti for 6 months. The team will work in collaboration with Sphere resource persons, RedR/Bioforce, ICVA/InterAction and other initiatives working towards improved accountability to provide practical support, capacity building and technical expertise in order to strengthen accountability and quality programming in response to the Haiti earthquake.
The team, comprised of Elie Gasagara seconded to HAP from World Vision and Troels Egeskov, will be in Haiti from the 21st March 2010, and are part funded by ECHO, Danida and DanChurchAid.
Further information can be found on the HAP in Haiti webpage
Documents- Final TOR for the HAP deployment
- Summary report based on the initial Q&A Support Team deployment
Contact- Elie Gasagara egasagara@hapinternational.org, and Troels Egeskov Sorensen tesorensen@hapinternational.org
The Royal Institute of British Architects, Development and Disaster Relief Community hosted a meeting in April for its member organisations operating in Haiti, with a particular focus on co-ordinating shelter and reconstruction efforts.
Documents- Meeting report
Contact- Stephanie Johnston, Article 25, stephanie-johnston@article-25.org
Information mechanisms
Ushahidi Haiti The Ushahidi Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-serves, Live streams, Situation Reports.
Documents- Ushahidi Haiti Evaluation Terms of Reference
InterAction Haiti Aid Map InterAction’s mapping initiative provides detailed information on the response by their members and other agencies to the earthquake in Haiti. Information on who is doing what where can be accessed by organization, cluster or sector, and location at the commune level.
Communications for Disaster-Affected Populations (CDAC) in Haiti CDAC’s central objective is that its members provide a coordinated service to enable humanitarian operations to get life-saving information to populations and to channel their voices back to the providers of assistance
Thomson Emergency Information Service One of the CDAC members, Thomson Reuters Foundation, has put in place first-of-its-kind Emergency Information Service (EIS) in Haiti for disaster-affected population.
People In Aid Resource Sheet A collection of key HR information and tools for agencies deploying staff in Haiti, brought together in a single resource sheet.
Women's Refugee Commission- Livelihoods and the humanitarian response in Haiti Key messages and guidance for action. This document highlights general action and specific recommendations for humanitarian assistance practitioners engaged in livelihood programs, such as cash-for-work programming, agrarian interventions and financial sector support.
Planned initiatives
Lessons and innovations capture- ENN on behalf of The IFE Core Group
The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) coordinates an interagency collaboration on infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IFE Core Group). The group has been heavily involved in the Haiti response via the Nutrition Cluster coordination mechanism, adapting tools and resources from previous emergencies to the Haiti context and has seen a number of innovations on the ground. ENN plans to capture experiences, resources and tools in a learning exercise over the coming months.
Contact- Marie McGrath, ENN, marie@ennonline.net
External evaluation- OCHA
Dates: May-June 2010
Contact: Scott Green green10@un.org
Country Portfolio Evaluation- WFP
Dates: Late 2010
Contact:: Michel Denis michel.denis@wfp.org
Real Time Evaluation - Disaster Emergency Committee
To cover all 13 DEC Member Agency programmes.
Start date - 2010
Contact: Annie Devonport, adevonport@dec.org.uk
If you have any information on any evaluations of humanitarian action or other learning and accountability initiatives, please contact Josh Harris, Communications Officer, ALNAP- j.harris@alnap.org
Previous evaluations and reports
The following evaluations have been selected from the Evaluative Reports Database for their potential value for agencies responding in Haiti.
Haiti evaluations
Post-earthquake evaluations
Quality & Accountability evaluations
Reports
Evaluating the Haiti Response Discussion Forum
Communications Officer, ALNAP
14 July 2010, 12:18
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Six months have now passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti and many ALNAP members launched massive relief and recovery operations. The Haiti Learning and Accountability portal contains details of several ongoing evaluations and learning projects, as well as other key resources. The Portal is now also available in French. Since the joint ALNAP/ OECD-DAC EvalNet/ UNEG meeting in London, the Haiti Evaluation Taskforce has convened its first teleconference and the minutes of this meeting are now available. It is our hope that these complementary initiatives will contribute to more informed, coordinated efforts to assessing and improving performance in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. With that in mind, I am launching this forum area, which will link directly to the Haiti portal, as a place for anyone involved in these efforts to share their thoughts, comments, concerns, best practice or any other information that could be useful for others working in Haiti. |
Global Hand
29 July 2010, 10:38
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Are other ALNAP members aware of the Disaster Accountability Project's report on the 'transparency of relief organizations responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake' (Summary here, full report here ). The report has been covered in a few news websites including Le Monde and the New York Times, among others. |
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