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Joint Evaluations
ALNAP has always had an interest in evaluations carried out jointly, as a potential way to achieve greater insights than can be achieved by evaluations of single agencies or single programmes. Indeed ALNAP's origins were in the outcomes of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda (JEEAR), published in 1996.
There is a growing number of joint or multi-agency evaluative exercises being carried out in the humanitarian sector. Among them recetly has been another major 'system-wide' one, the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) that ALNAP was part of and whose secretariat ALNAP hosted.
ALNAP would like to be part of investigating the usefulness and the methodologies of joint or multi-agency evaluations in order to share experiences on joint evaluations; to test common assumptions about joint evaluations; to enhance collaboration among agencies; and to add strength to the possibility of changes in policy and practice that may be achieved through joint evaluations but not through single agency evaluations. It is important to profit from a body of experience and reflection that sets out the constraints, advantages, disadvantages or opportunities of joint evaluations.
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