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Session 1 - Describing and locating EHA
Session 1
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This session will look at:
- The definitions and understandings of Evaluation of Humanitarian Action (EHA)
- The increasingly wide range of activities and scenarios relevant to HA
- The challenges this wide range presents
Session objective:
- To emphasise the importance of not treating all HA as the same.
- To introduce the importance of choosing appropriate standards, indicators, and frameworks for differing HA contexts and types
Session 2 - Purpose of evaluation
Session 2
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This session will look at:
- Accountability and lesson-learning
- Drivers towards accountability in humanitarian assistance
- Types of evaluation
Session objective:
- To emphasise the importance of clarifying the purpose of an evaluation, especially if it is to be user-focused.
- To understand the tensions between accountability and lesson-learning, and the implications for designing an evaluation
Session 3 - Initiating and planning the Evaluation
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This session will look at:
- Who needs what and why?
- What to evaluate?
- Who should evaluate?
- When to evaluate?
Session objective:
- To prepare participants to plan an evaluation, paying particular attention to who needs what and why, as well as other aspects of the planning process
Session 4 - Evaluation Criteria and Frameworks
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This session will look at:
- Standard DAC evaluation criteria
- HA frameworks
Session objective:
- To explain and emphasise the importance of applying standard DAC evaluation criteria, especially, Effectiveness; Efficiency; Relevance and Impact.
- To develop knowledge of how to apply HA frameworks covering all main HA scenarios and contexts, specifically how to use them to formulate appropriate questions for evaluating HA in different contexts
Session 5 - Evaluation methodologies
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This session will look at:
- Different types of data collection methods
- The importance of documentation review
- Some useful distinctions: quantitative vs qualitative indicators, formal vs informal methods of data collection
- Informal data collection methods (PRA, focus group discussions, timelines etc) and challenges of analysis
- Interviewing skills
- Data analysis and dealing with bias
- Ethical considerations
Session objective:
- To familiarise participants with different evaluation methods, and how to choose amongst them
- To sharpen participants experience of interviewing skills
- To alert participants to issues of bias and ethical considerations
- To guide participants in data analysis
Session 6 - Teams and Management
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This session will look at:
- EHA evaluation teams
- Management of EHA activities
Session objective:
- To develop skills in EHA team management and membership
- To develop skills and knowledge in the management of EHA activities
Session 7 - Reporting
Session 7
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This session will look at:
- Options for reporting (both verbal and in writing)
- Planning reporting
- Preparing and conducting reporting
Session objective:
- To set out the variety of options for reporting EHA results, both verbal and in writing
- To develop skills and approaches for effective reporting
- To understand the linkages between systematic analysis and gradual development of EHA results (findings, conclusions and recommendations) and clear, credible and effective presentation of those results
Session 8 - Use and dissemination of evaluations
Session 8
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This session will look at:
- Evidence of how we learn
- Good practice and potential pitfalls of dissemination
- Examples of good dissemination practice
Session objective:
- To emphasise the importance of planning for use and dissemination of evaluations, from the outset
- To review the very poor record in evaluation follow up in the humanitarian aid sector
- To share examples of good practice in dissemination and follow-up
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