7th Review of Humanitarian Action
March 2008
Summary
The 7th edition of the ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action (RHA) explores critical issues involved in the development of mechanisms for assessing and improving the performance of humanitarian actors. It contains a short introduction and three main studies.
The first study is on organisational change and provides perhaps the first substantive analysis of the experiences of humanitarian organisations in carrying out processes of change and improvement. The second study focuses on joint evaluations of humanitarian action and provides a comprehensive account of current strengths and weaknesses. This chapter also contains a meta-evaluation, which assesses the quality of joint-evaluation reports using the ALNAP Quality Pro Forma. The third study is an evaluation synthesis of key lessons learned from the international response to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.
Chapters
Preliminaries and Foreword
Collective action and performance: a personal view
John Mitchell
Organisational change in the humanitarian sector
Paul Clarke and Ben Ramalingam
Joint evaluations coming of age? The quality and future scope of joint evaluations
Tony Beck and Margie Buchanan-Smith
Perceptions of crisis and response: A synthesis of evaluations
of the response to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake
John Cosgrave and Maurice Herson
Annexes
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