Channel Research

Description: Independent, comprehensive analysis and assessment of Germany’s humanitarian assistance abroad in order to gain insights, which can be used for management by the two ministries concerned. The study looks at the relevance and results of the interventions, which are assessed through 6 case studies. The study focuses on the interface management between the two ministries, coordination and complementarity with interventions by other donors, especially the EU and UN organisations, appropriateness of the financing channels and linking up emergency relief, emergency and transitional aid, reconstruction and development cooperation (LRRD).
Time Period: January 2010 – February 2011
Country: Germany
Client: Ministry of Development Cooperation Federal Foreign Office
Partner: AGEG Consultants
Person days: 5 Consultants

Description: This advanced training in the Evaluation of Humanitarian Action focuses on dealing with practical challenges in evaluation. This workshop is for those with extensive experience of evaluating humanitarian action, either as an evaluator or an evaluation manager.

It will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on their own evaluation experience and to use this and the experiences of their peers to improve their own work.

The course will focus on areas which often pose challenges for evaluators and evaluation managers. It will also equip participants with a range of evaluation and evaluation management tools and resources, so that those who wish can deepen their knowledge of particular aspects of evaluation.
The course will touch base on Real-time evaluation, joint evaluation, the question of utilisation of evaluation, trends and will provide guidance on ethical issues in evaluation. There is room and flexibility built into the schedule, which means that the final schedule will depend on the evaluation issues and concerns brought up by the participants.

The participants in previous years have come from OCHA, Norad, Oxfam, FAO and the Red Cross. Equally represented were practitioners, core evaluators and independent consultants.

Time Period: June 2010
Country: Belgium
Client: Various Trainees
Partner: ALNAP
Person days: 2 consultants, 6 days

Description: This course has the overall aim of making evaluations of humanitarian action more effective in contributing to the improved performance of interventions and improving the quality of the evaluation process. The participants in previous years have come from OCHA, WFP, IOM, European Commission (DG ECHO), SIDA, DanChurchAid, Oxfam, RedR, DARA. Equally represented were practitioners, core evaluators, independent consultants and government officials.
Time Period: June 2010
Country: Belgium
Client: Various trainees
Person days: 2 consultants, 8 days

Description: This is a technical assistance/capacity development assignment where Channel Research has provided a team of experts to develop generic indicators for local court integrity monitoring, and will then support Tiri’s local partners in the countries in question to contextualise these and make them locally relevant. The outputs of the assignment are two strategic projects-reports, two 2-day workshops in Uganda and Sierra Leone to present the generic indicators and basic monitoring skills to the local partners. In the end, support services are provided to the local partners on the contextualisation of the indicators.
Time Period: February – October 2010
Country: Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone
Client: Tiri – Making integrity work
Person days: 3 Consultants

Description: Real Time Evaluation missions to assess the response of DEC partners to the November 2009 earthquake in Panang, Indonesia and the December 2009 floods and storms in and around Manila, Philippines. The missions consisted of a field trip of 14 days to Indonesia and 10 days to the Philippines.
Time Period: January – March 2010
Country: Indonesia, Philippines
Client: Disasters Emergency Commission
Person days: 3 Consultants

Description: The Evaluation focuses on the CPPB activities after the signing of the CPA in 2005. It is part of a series of joint-evaluation launched by the OECD-DAC to test the draft OECD-DAC Guidance on Evaluations of CPPB Programming, as well as to assess the relevance, effectiveness, coherence and impact of the CPPA activities in Southern Sudan, funded by Minbuza, Difid, Belgian Cooperation, Sida, DANIDA, Norad, CIDA, USAID, UNICEF, UNDP, UNOCHA and the EC. The evaluation is carried out in two stages; Stage I is a document review, which will feed into the design of the TOR for Stage II, which is a field study.
Time Period: October 2009 – October 2010
Country: Sudan
Client: OECD, led by Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Partner: ITAD
Person days: 4 Consultants

Description: IDLO commissioned Channel Research to undertake an evaluation of its three year project entitled, “Microfinance: Building Inclusive Financial Sectors and Supportive Legal and Regulatory Frameworks”.
The evaluation was carried out between October 2009 and January 2010 following OECD DAC evaluation criteria of effectiveness, relevance, results, coverage and sustainability.
Qualitative and quantitative data was collected through a document review, more than 60 semi-structured interviews with key informants were conducted, as well as a survey of 169 randomly selected project participants (for which 41 responses were received). The aim of the evaluation was to provide an overview of the project results, as well as identify key recommendations and lessons for future programming.
Time Period: October 2009 – January 2010
Country: Global
Client: IDLO
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: Carry out an overall independent assessment of the progress, future plan and sustainability of the programme and of the individual main beneficiary countries, paying particular attention to the results and the impact of the programme actions against its objectives, targets and indicators, as well as taking stock of any concerns and challenges.
Analyse how individual actions/ sub-projects contribute to the overall project objectives and expected results.
Provide recommendations for the improvement of activities, log-frame, preparation of sustainability and the programme handover during the final implementation stage, ad-hoc, progress and final projects-reports.
Identify key lessons and propose specific, feasible and realistic recommendations to the relevant organisations and governments of participating countries, UNOCHA, UNISDR and the European Commission.
Time Period: May – September 2009
Country: Thailand, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka
Client: European Commission
Partner: COWI Denmark
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: The Evaluation focuses on the CPPB activities after the signing of the CPA in 2005. It is part of a series of joint-evaluation launched by the OECD-DAC to test the draft OECD-DAC Guidance on Evaluations of CPPB Programming, as well as assess the relevance, effectiveness, coherence and impact of the CPPA activities in Southern Sudan funded by Minbuza, Difid, Belgian Cooperation, Sida, DANIDA, Norad, CIDA, USAID, UNICEF, UNDP, UNOCHA and the EC. The evaluation is carried out in two stages; Stage I is a document review of donor policies and CPPB strategies which will feed into the design of the TOR for Stage II which is a field study with evaluation of a number of selected projects.
Time Period: September 2009 – November 2010
Country: DR Congo
Client: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Belgium as lead (DfID, Minbuza, GTZ/BMZ, Japan, Canada, UNDP, UNFPA, Unifem, Unicef, OHCHR)
Person days: 12 Consultants, 553 days

Description: Evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of the Support to the Casamance Peace Process (SCPP) project, funded under the Managing African Conflict (MAC) IQC by USAID/Senegal from July 2006 to September 2009.
SCPP built on a previous USAID-funded program, Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution with Key Constituencies in the Casamance (Senegal), also implemented by AECOM from November 2004 to February 2006.
SCPP aims to help bring about a definitive solution to the Casamance conflict.
Time Period: July – October 2009
Country: Senegal
Client: AECOM /USAID
Person days: 4 consultants, 92 days

Description: An evaluation of the Livelihoods Support provided by Fondacion de Bonheur, a Swiss NGO, following the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 earthquake. The evaluation team consisted of an international team leader and a local livelihoods expert. They spent 14 days in total on Nias Island visiting project sites.
Time Period: July – October 2009
Country: Indonesia, Nias Island
Client: Swiss Solidarity
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: CEEAC was created in 1983 to integrate Central Africa as one pillar into the African Union. The project PAPS with a budget of 4 million Euro provides technical assistance to the Secretariat of the CEEAC. The objective is to develop the capacity and efficiency of CEEAC in the area of conflict prevention, in order to reinforce peace, political visibility and integration of the CEEAC members.
The objective of the mid-term evaluation was to give an external view on the activities and to formulate lessons learnt.
Time Period: July – November 2009
Country: Central Africa
Client: European Commission
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: The evaluation assessed whether the programs had achieved their primary socio-economic development objectives and whether they had been a successful vehicle for fostering positive relationships with communities. The evaluation also made realistic recommendations for activities, approaches and strategies for future community investment programs, which BP and its partners may wish to undertake after completion of the CIP-2.
Time Period: May – September 2009
Country: Georgia
Client: BP
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: Evaluation of Cordaid’s Disaster Risk Reduction programming in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Malawi with a focus on floods, drought, earthquakes and HIV/AIDS.
Time Period: February 2009 – February 2010
Country: Ethiopia, Malawi, Indonesia, Bangladesh
Client: Cordaid
Person days: 5 Consultants

Description: With a focus on the 5 YEP centers and Income-Generating Activities (IGA) groups in Gulu and Amuru districts, the evaluation looked at the achievements between 2006 to 2008, and gave particular attention to the efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, relevance, environmental approach, gender mainstreaming and targeting and administration of the project.
The results from this study should be used as lessons learnt for the design and implementation of YEP in other countries with a similar context.
Time Period: February – August 2009
Country: Uganda
Client: NRC
Person days: 2 consultants, 43 days

Description: Evaluation of Sida’s funding to the UNDP Reconciliation and Development Program (REDES) in Colombia which aims to contribute to peacebuilding, human development and cooperation, through the improvement of civil society’s initiatives at regional and national level. The team consisted of 2 international consultants and one local consultant. They spent 20 days in the field in Colombia.
Time Period: October 2008 – February 2009
Country: Colombia
Client: Sida
Person days: 3 Consultants

Description: Evaluation of Finn Church Aid funded post-conflict programming of Lutheran World Federation in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2001 and 1998 respectively. FCA had temporarily frozen funding in Liberia and considerably limited funding in Sierra Leone in 2007 due to uncertainty o the program’s management and direction as well as the relevance of the outputs.  The team of two international consultants spent 24 days in the field visiting old project sites and tracking down old project staff and beneficiaries.
Time Period: January – June 2009
Country: Liberia, Sierra Leone
Client: FinnChurchAid
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: Evaluation by local consultants of a Finn Church Aid project dealing with the war trauma of women in Eastern DRC and facilitating their reintegration in the communities.
Time Period: April – June 2009
Country: DR Congo
Client: FinnChurchAid
Person days: 2 consultants, 27 days

Description: Baseline study on the different linkages and bounds of demobilized soldiers working in artisanal mines. This concerns demobilized personnel of Iturian rebel groups in order to assess if they encountered specific constraints / assets in working in mines compared to other mine workers. This study also analyzed the impact of their presence in the mines on the community, and the different fragility levels for/ of? peacebuilding.
The study aims to provide recommendations for the upcoming DDR phases, and for potential interventions of the international community, NGOs, organizations and the corporate sector in the mining areas.
Time Period: January – May 2009
Country: DR Congo
Client: PACT (USAID)
Person days: 2 consultants, 47 days

Description: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has collaborated with IDLO to implement a judicial capacity building project with the following objectives: 

• To enhance the competence of judges in commercial law in order to ensure greater efficacy, uniformity and predictability of court rulings;
• To assist in the creation of a business enabling environment in Kyrgyzstan; and
• To help build lasting institutions which are capable of providing effective capacity building programs for the judiciary.
• The project beneficiaries were approximately 270 Kyrgyz judges that deal with commercial and civil-commercial matters, and a selected group of bailiffs, tax officials, and court consultants. 
  Time Period: January – April 2009
  Country: Kyrgyzstan
  Client: International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
  Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: The evaluation concerns the project “Surviving the next David : helping vulnerable communities to cope with natural disasters in Dominica”, carried out by the French Red Cross with the Dominica Red Cross Society and funded by the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission (ECHO). It is a fifteen-month program, from November 1st 2007 to January 31st 2009.
The purpose of this evaluation is to study the impact of the project in terms of disaster preparedness and knowledge dissemination.
Time Period: January – March 2009
Country: Dominica
Client: French Red Cross
Person days: 20 days

Description: Evaluation of the AFD’s answer (including PROPARCO) to catastrophes: earthquake in Pakistan, Tsunami in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives and Thailand. The study also includes , on a desk base, interventions in China and Haiti. The institutional set up of the organisation is also considered, especially its mobilization capacities, unused funds, as well as the French, international and local institutional context.
Time Period: January 2009 – February 2010
Country: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives
Client: AFD
Person days: 118 days

Description: DG ECHO on behalf of GHD has commissioned this mapping exercise. The team undertook a baseline study of GHD donors’ field coordination practices in all major humanitarian crisis countries where a Humanitarian Coordinator has been appointed and where the Cluster Approach was being implemented.
The team has identified formal/informal donor coordination frameworks in selected field locations and collected data on field engagement of each donor participating in the field coordination framework. They tried to find out if experts/donor representatives in the field were aware of GHD Principles, Good Practices and of guidance for the implementation of GHD in the field and if those principles were being applied.
Time Period: January – June 2009
Country: DRC, Kenya, Palestinian Territories 
Client: DG ECHO (European Commission)
Person days: 2 consultants, 105 days

Description: The evaluation of effectiveness of capacity building through training programs funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Five training courses conducted over the past 25 years have been selected to be evaluated in order to guide future Finnish development policy on capacity building.
Time Period: January 2008 – August 2008
Country: Finland, Ethiopia, Palestine, Kenya, SADC
Client: Finnish MFA
Person days: 4 Consultants

Description: A study on the impact of conflict on PCD funded research projects in conflict and post-conflict settings. The study Included 4 Country: visits, 4 Country: projects-reports and one Synthesis report and two presentations for IDRC in Ottawa.
Time Period: February 2008 – February 2009
Country: Palestinian Territories, Kenya, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Colombia
Client: IDRC (International Development Research Council)
Partner: COWI DK
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: On 26 December 2004, a first earthquake of an 8.9 magnitude on the Richter scale occurred below the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra Island, causing a tsunami wave.

On 28 March 2005, a second earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale shook Nias to the ground. In Aceh and Nias, these earthquakes and the tsunami damaged most parts of the coastal areas, claimed heavy casualties, destroyed infrastructure, settlements, social facilities and government buildings, thus affecting the social and economic condition of the people. In order to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, the Government of Indonesia asked donors to pool their resources. In compliance with this request, the EC channeled its support for reconstruction through the Multi-Donor Fund for Aceh and Nias (MDF), which is administered by the World Bank (WB).

The EC contribution to the MDF is €203.5 million. The EC co-chairs the MDF together with BRR and the WB. The general objective of the evaluation is to appraise progress of the MDF, to identify lessons learnt and to provide recommendations for change and improvements in the next phase of its implementation.

This will be achieved through:

1. an assessment of the current MDF program, namely the achievements to date in relation to its stated results: (a) regenerated communities and community infrastructure; (b) reduced poverty; © restarted livelihoods; (d) repaired larger infrastructure; (e) rebuilt governance; and (f) sustained environment; its consistency with priorities as formulated in the RAP and EC Tsunami Indicative Programme; and the MDF contribution to the overall reconstruction effort in Aceh.
2. an assessment of the performance of the MDF as a tool for coordination, harmonization and policy dialogue in the context of the reconstruction process.

Time Period: November 2008 – March 2009
Country: Indonesia
Client: European Commission
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: Study on the evaluability of support for dialogue processes.
Time Period: 2008
Country: Sweden
Client: Sida
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: Organisational evaluation of UNOPS HQ in Nairobi.
Time Period: January – March 2008
Country: Kenya
Client: UNOPS
Person days: 1 Consultant, 16 days

Description: Mid-term Evaluation of the “Support Program to Initiatives for Food Security”, implemented by NGO Bevrijde Wereld in Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal. The Program PAISA/MaBuSen (Support Program to Initiatives for Food Security in Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal) is a regional program both implemented by West African and North partners. The evaluation specifically examines the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the program. It also includes cross-cutting issues such as gender and capacity-building for local structures.
Time Period: April – August 2008
Country: Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso
Client: Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: The main objective is to identify factors (conditions and programming modalities) that facilitate or hinder the research process for PCD-supported projects in countries and regions affected by violent conflict. Study commissioned by the OECD – through its network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation (CPDC) and Governance (Govnet) – which aims at illustrating the challenges and potential of linking both fields in practice.
Focus on:

• Transitional Justice,
• Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR),
• Children in armed Conflict
• Economic and Social rights and service delivery in fragile states.
  Time Period: March – September 2008
  Country: Bosnia, Colombia, Congo, Timor Leste, Uganda
  Client: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Partner: COWI DK
  Person days: 4 Consultants

Description: PNDDR is a 25 Mio. US$ reintegration programme for soldiers in the Republic of Congo. The programme is part of MDRP-Multi Country: Demobilization and Reintegration Programme managed by the World Bank
Time Period: February – July 2008
Country: Republic of Congo
Client: European Commission
Person days: –

Description: To provide systematic and objective assessments of EC-funded mine actions in the Middle East, to generate credible and useful lessons for decision-makers within the EC, allowing them to improve the planning and management of existing and future mine action projects, programmes, and policies.
Time Period: April – August 2008
Country: Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq
Client: Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Deming on behalf of the European Commission
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: Following-up on a report of the German Court of Auditors, the Budget Committee of the Deutsche Bundestag (German parliament) has requested the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to report on steps taken to improve on assessing performance and evaluating Germany’s voluntary contributions to International Organisations (I.O.). A major share of these contributions is earmarked for Humanitarian Assistance (HA) organisations and programmes, comprising emergency aid, including refugee aid (funded by the AA) and development-oriented emergency and transition aid, including food security programmes (funded by the BMZ).
Review of the current German system of performance assessments including (internal and external) evaluations of voluntary contributions to I.O. The sample selected for this study included the ICRC, WFP and UNHCR. The study looked at the evaluations functions of I.O., their systems for results based management and internal and external reporting.
Time Period: April – September 2008
Country: Germany, Global
Client: German Ministry of Development Cooperation, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: Channel Research is part of the review/advisory group – composed of evaluation specialists, conflict prevention and SSR specialists – that supports Saferworld’s work by offering geographical, issue, policy, research and programme expertise.
Time Period: May – December 2008
Country: UK
Client: Saferworld
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: The evaluation of Swedish support to strengthening women’s participation in political and decentralization processes in Burkina Faso under the national democratic institute for international affairs “NDI”. The purpose is a learning opportunity for NDI and Sida as well as an input for Sida’s decision-making process with regards specifically to NDI and possible future contributions.
Time Period: June – August 2008
Country: Burkina Faso
Client: Sida
Partner: COWI DK
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: The evaluation of the EC funded mine action in Eastern Europe, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Cyprus in order to generate credible and useful lessons for decision-makers within the EC, allowing them to improve the planning and management of existing and future mine action projects, programmes, and policies.
Time Period: July – October 2008
Country: Eastern Europe, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Cyprus
Client: Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
Person days: 2 Consultants

Description: The objective is to produce a revised strategy document for Denmark’s humanitarian aid for 2009-2015. The formulation of the revised strategy will ensure that the formulation process is conducted in a manner inclusive of partners and where appropriate include likeminded donors and the general public. And that the strategy becomes operational as a decision making tool, supporting the day-to-day managers of humanitarian aid.
Time Period: June 2008 – January 2009
Country: Denmark
Client: Danida
Partner: Cowi Denmark, Development Initiatives
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: Evaluation of performance on behalf of Burundian refugees and returnees by DCA and its national partners over a twenty month period, according to OECD/ DAC criteria. Field surveys in western Tanzania and eastern Burundi, interviews, focus group discussions and document review to assess this programme’s relevance in a post-conflict context.
Time Period: August- October 2008
Country: Burundi
Client: DanChurchAid
Person days: 2 consultants

Description: AED is seeking technical assistance to support the development of a Monitoring & Evaluation Plan and M&E tools/approaches for the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program. PDEV is a three-year USAID-funded program that aims to reduce the threat of extremism and terrorism in Chad, Niger, and Mauritania through innovative development approaches. The program expects to achieve the following results: a) extremist ideologies supporting terrorist tactics are discredited, b) terrorists are denied support and sanctuary by improving governance and reducing ungoverned and poorly governed spaces, and c) terrorists are denied support and sanctuary by reducing the pool of potential recruits. Program activities targeting these results include a Community Youth mapping process, vocational training, income generation grants and micro-credit, religious education reform activities, radio chat shows targeting youth and governance issues, youth empowerment activities, governance activities, and intra-faith dialogues and peace messaging.
Time Period: September – October 2008
Country: Chad, Niger, Mauretania
Client: AED/ USAID
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: The German government is supporting Mine Action in Afghanistan through the funding of two implementing partners: HALO Trust and Danish Demining Group.

As part of an ongoing monitoring and evaluation framework, Channel Research in collaboration with the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Mine Action has been contracted to undertake an evaluation of the field programmes of these two partners.
Time Period: August – October 2008
Country: Afghanistan
Client: German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days: 1 Consultant

Description: Joint Follow-up evaluation of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition’s Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development study. This particular evaluation is Phase II of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC)‘s Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) study, Phase I having been carried out in 2005. It is being conducted simultaneously in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives. It is not an evaluation of individual organisations or projects, but rather a broad evaluation of the overall tsunami aid effort to assess how effective aid has been in helping communities and governments to recover in the aftermath of the tsunami, and to compile some lessons learnt for future disaster response.
Time Period: September 2008 – May 2009
Country: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives
Client: SIDA, DANIDA, Norad, Government of Netherlands
Partner: Dara, AIDMI, TeamCVoter
Person days: 13 Consultant
Download : 090920_Review_of_Joint_Evaluation_LRRD2_Channel.pdf
Download : LRRD-Summary_report.pdf

Download : Presentation of LRRD study and final results

Description: This training in evaluation of humanitarian action was held by Channel Research in cooperation with ALNAP. The training aimed to make evaluations of humanitarian action more effective in contributing to the improved performance of interventions and to improve the quality of the evaluation process.
Time Period: October 2008
Country: Belgium
Client: OCHA, WFP, ECHO, Oxfam America, Oxfam, Novib, Dara, ICRC, UNHCR
Partner: ALNAP
Person days: 2 consultants, 8 days

Description: Evaluation of Saferworld’s international, regional, national and local work funded by Dfid since 2004.
Time Period: December 2008 – July 2009
Country: UK, Bangladesh, Kenya, Kosovo, Moldova, South Sudan
Client: DfiD
Person days: 5 Consultants

Description: In depth identification process for the 2009 programming to uncover detailed information on:

• The problems faced by uprooted people and province specific priorities
• The options for the EC response and analysis of how the proposed intervention strategy will meet objectives
• The assumptions and risks for the programme

Time Period: July 2008 – November 2008
Country: Indonesia
Client: European Commission
Person days: 1 Channel consultant, 30 days.

Description: Description of how Norwegian NGOs became involved, which sectors and programs, how they chose their partners and assess against shifting political and humanitarian circumstances the results achieved through total assistance to Palestine in the period 1999 to 2006. The review intends to conclude and recommend future priorities for Norwegian NGO assistance to Palestinan civil society.
Time Period: April 2008 – August 2008
Country: Palestinian Territories
Partner: NCG, Norway
Client: NORAD
Person days: 2 consultants, 40 days

Description: Channel Research is part of the review/advisory group – composed of evaluation specialists, conflict prevention and SSR specialists – that support Saferworld’s work by bringing geographical, issue, policy, research and programme expertise.
Time Period: May 2008 – December 2008
Country: UK
Client: Saferworld
Person days: 2 consultants, 20 days.

Description: The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Development Cooperation are undertaking a comprehensive review of German funding for Humanitarian Assistance. During Phase I of this undertaking a number of International Organisations were assessed regarding their mechanisms to assess performance (internal systems, accountability, evaluations).
Time Period: May 2008 – September 2008
Country: Global
Client: BMZ (German government)
Person days: 1 consultant, 30 days.

Download : 081118_BMZ_Humanitare_Hilfe_phase1_Final_Zusammengeführt.pdf

Description: Regional evaluation of EC-funded mine actions in the Middle East to generate lessons for decision-makers within the EC, to improve management and planning of future and existing mine action programmes and adjust policies where needed.
Time Period: January 2008 – June 2008
Country: Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen
Client: GICHD
Person days: 2 consultants, 36 days.
Download : 080805 Regional evaluation of EC-funded mine actions in the Middle East_2002-2008.pdf

Description: Evaluation of a core funding provided by Sida to 5 research institutes on peace and security based in South Africa: International Institute on Security Studies (ISS), African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), South African Institute on International Affairs (SAIIA), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
Time Period: March 2008 – July 2008
Country: South Africa
Client: Sida
Person days: 2 consultants, 53 days.
Download : 080725 SIDA South Africa Research.pdf

Description: Originally a 3 years programme, which lasted 5 years, implemented by the ONEPA, National Administration School, and targeting capacity building through training sessions in Laos and France for diplomats, and justice related workers, as equipment to the relevant training institutes.
Time Period: March 2008 – August 2008
Country: Laos
Client: DGCID (French MFA)
Person days: 2 consultants, 36 days

Download : 0808117_French_MFA_FSA_Final_report_Laos.pdf

Description: Evaluation of a 4 year programme implemented by UNICEF West Africa Regional Office and National Offices in Mali, Niger, Ghana, Togo, against child trafficking through reinforcement of legal environment, implementation of a monitoring system in the community, implementation of relevant national services, prevention and sensitization.
Time Period: February 2008 – July 2008
Country: Mali, Niger, Ghana, Togo
Client: UNICEF Dakar
Person days: 3 consultants, 125 days.

Description: Study commissioned by the OECD – through its network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation (CPDC) and Governance (Govnet) – and which aims at illustrating the challenges and potential of linking both fields in practice.
Focus on: Transitional Justice, Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Children in armed Conflict, Economic and Social rights and service delivery in fragile states.
Time Period: February 2008 – September 2008
Country: Bosnia, Colombia, Congo, Timor Leste, Uganda
Client: COWI (SIDA / OECD)
Person days: 7 consultants, 190 days, 170.000 Euros.

Description: In accordance with the financing decisions for Indonesia Tsunami Reconstruction Support: Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Aceh, Nias and North Sumatra, the EC asks for the second external evaluation of the MDF programme.
Time Period: November 2008 – December 2008
Country: Indonesia
Client: European Commission
Person days: 2 consultants, 60 days

Description: Evaluation of the programme of promotion and protect the basic rights of Congolese refugees and to facilitate voluntary return or reintegration as a durable solution in 3 refugee camps. Programme funded by Norwegian Refugee Council and UNHCR.
Time Period: February 2008 – April 2008
Country: Burundi
Client: Norwegian Refugee Council
Person days: 2 consultants, 57 days

Description: The objective of the study is to contribute to the cooperation strategy process, providing Sweden with analysis on the relationship between poverty and internal armed conflict in Colombia, identifying the main traits of multidimensional poverty with a focus on the lack of human security, social capital, influence, power and choice.
Time Period: January 2008 – June 2008
Country: Colombia
Client: Swedish international Development Agency (Sida)
Person days: 3 consultants, 42 days

Description: The main objective is to identify factors (conditions and programming modalities) that facilitate or hinder the researcg process for PCD-supported projects in countries and regions affected by violent conflict.
Time Period: March 2008 – September 2008
Country: Bosnia Colombia Congo Timor Leste Uganda
Client: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Person days: 4 consultants, 130 days

Description: On behalf of the Red Cross Movement the ICRC has contracted Channel Research to evaluate the Movement’s RFL response to the 2004 Tsunami disaster in South East Asia. The findings will contribute to the implementation of the new RFL strategy.
Time Period: December 2007 – May 2008
Country: Switzerland South East Asia
Client: ICRC, IFRC, Red Cross National Societies
Person days: 3 consultants, 150 days

Description: Evaluation of the programme of transitional justice, support to refugees, and IDPs, through Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance
Time Period: November 2007
Country: Burundi
Client: NRC
Person days: 2 consultants, 55 days

Description: Desk and field study on power structure in Sudan and means of pressure for the International Community.
Time Period: October 2007 – July 2008
Country: Sudan
Client: DAS, French Ministry of Defence
Person days: 3 consultants, 59 days

Description: The programme was FSP implemented on a 3 years period and had 3 components: child in armed conflicts, sexual genital mutilations, and child sexual exploitation. The programme involved French UNICEF Committee, and field work was undertaken by 4 regional West and Central Africa consultants.
Time Period: October 2007 – June 2008
Country: Benin, Mali, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, DRC
Client: French MFA
Person days: 6 consultants, 92 days

Description: Training, run with MENAS Associates, to provide practical tools for companies seeking to identify and reduce the risk to both project and host community of operating in conflict-prone environments.
Time Period : June 2007
Country: UK
Client: Menas
Person days: 3 days

Description: Strategic programming document for the new APF to be funded under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), identifying lessons learnt and setting orientations and priorities for the programming of the new instrument.
Time Period : September 2007 – December 2007
Country: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Central African Republic
Client: European Commission
Person days: 2 consultants, 80 days.

Description: Evaluation of the implementation by Norwegian Red Cross of a logistic platform with a fleet of former military 6×6 trucks given by Norwegian Army ad used in emergency operations by various international and local organisations.
Time Period : September 2007 – December 2007
Country: Indonesia, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Norway
Client: NORAD
Person days: 9 consultants, 160 days

Description : BMZ aims at further developing their indicators for conflict prevention in programmes implemented by GTZ and KfW. The aim of the assignment is to facilitate access to expertise in Europe to discuss and improve the indicators.
Time Period : August 2007 – September 2007
Country : Global
Client : BMZ
Person days : 1 consultants, 10 days

Download : 071010_BMZ_Post-war_countries_Final_report.pdf

Description : Assistance to the Office of the State Minister for conflict resolution issues in capacity building of human resources. Provision of training to ministry staff, policy advice on conflict resolution issues in order to build up the operational resources of the office.
Time Period : July 2007 – July 2008
Country : Georgia
Client : European Commission
Person days : 3 consultants, 130 days

Download : 080602_EuropeAid_2nd_Mission_Report_Georgia.pdf

Description : FAO is looking at ways to further develop its partnership with NGOs for the implementation of emergency and rehabilitation projects. This project is a comparative analysis of the contractual partnership arrangements of various UN agencies (WFP, UNHCR, WHO, UNOPS).
Time Period : July-September 2007
Country : Italy, Switzerland, Belgium
Person days : 1 consultants, 45 days

Description : The evaluation concerns a programme funded by UNICEF and the European Commission
Time Period : July 2007
Country : Sri Lanka
Client : European Commission
Person days : 1 consultant, 22 days

Description : Evaluation of the appropriateness of DG ECHO’s actions, in accordance with ECHO’s mandate, in order to establish whether they have achieved their objectives and to produce recommendations for improving the effectiveness of future operations.
Time Period : May-August 2007
Country : Pakistan
Client : ECHO
Person days : 2 consultants, 86 days

Download : 070831_ECHO_Evaluation_Final_Report_Pakistan_Earthquake.pdf

Description : Participatory learning review of the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Extremely Low Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields.
Time Period : May- June 2007
Country : UK
Client : ECHO
Person days : 5 days

Description : Additional to the evaluation of financed actions the assignment includes the assessment of vulnerable groups, a household survey and identification of the population’s coping strategy.
Time Period : May-August 2007
Country : Haiti
Partner : Particip
Client : ECHO
Person days : 1 consultant, 7 days

Download : 070610_ECHO_Aide_Humanitaire_Haiti.pdf

Description : Evaluation of the project by Louvain Developpement in Atacora related to micro-finance, health insurance, food security, economy and local communities.
Time Period : May – June 2007
Country : Benin
Client : Belgian Cooperation
Person days : 3 consultants, 60 days

Description : The purpose of the evaluation is to identify the impact of the CRD and NUPI programmes, under the USAID Uganda Initiative, on establishing a more effective and participatory governance. The overarching question addressed was “What is the extent of the measureable impact of the programmes on the reduction and prevention of conflict, and what is the effectiveness of the results obtained?”
Country : Uganda
Client : USAID
Person days : 4 consultants, 100 days
Download : 070705_USAID_Uganda_Final_Report.pdf

Description : Evaluation of Belgium cooperation action undertaken in the field of humanitarian assistance between 2002 and 2006. This evaluation was undertaken in partnership with another consultancy.
Time Period : January – June 2007
Country : Burundi
Partner : Ecorys, Netherlands
Client : Special Evaluation Service, Federal Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Co-operation
Person days : 2 consultants, 40 days

Download : 071206_Belgian_HA_Burundi_Final_Report.pdf
Download : 071206_Belgian_HA_Synthesis_Final_report_Burundi.pdf

Description : Evaluation of the Teachers Telling Tales (T3) programme which consists of 4 master classes attended by 40 teachers. The evaluation assessed how useful the teachers found the classes and the accompanying resources and how much they use them in their subsequent teaching.
Time Period : April – June 2007
Country : Ireland
Client : Verbal Arts Centre
Person days : 2 consultants, 14 days
Download : 070710_T3_Evaluation_Report.pdf

Description : CDA is the Collaborative Learning Project & the Collaborative for Development Action, Inc, a non-profit organisation committed to improving the effectiveness of international actors who provide humanitarian assistance, engage in peace practice, and are involved in supporting sustainable development. The evaluation was commissioned by the Swedish Cooperation, Sida, in order to examine two main areas: a) CDA’s internal management and financial control systems and b) the quality and impact of its activities.
Time Period : February – May 2007
Country : USA
Client : Sida
Person days : 3 consultants, 30 days
Download : 270607_Evaluation_CDA_Final_Report_2.pdf

Description : Consultancy to develop and support the community relations team for the Koniambo Nickel Project, undertake issues mapping exercises and identification of stakeholders to inform the CSR strategy and plans, and support public consultations.
Time Period : January – June 2007
Country : New Caledonia
Client : Monkey Forest/ Falconbridge/ Xstrata
Person days : 2 consultants, 156 days

Description : Development and implementation of capacity building training and coaching for key staff from Save the Children in Sri Lanka district teams as well as the Colombo office on report and proposal writing
Time Period : January – March 2007
Country : Sri Lanka
Client : Red Barnet
Person days : 2 consultants, 52 days

Description : The evaluation assesses the quality of the development initiatives financed by the Belgium Federal State between 1995 and 2006. The evaluation should reveal what factors influence the quality of interventions funded by the Belgium Federal State, both positively and negatively.
Time Period : December 2006 – October 2007
Country : Rwanda
Client : Special Evaluation Service, Federal Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Person days : 6 consultants, 204 days

Description : Research on legal aid agencies – access to justice. Within the Legal System Development Strategy, donor communities in Vietnam (SDC, Oxfam/Novib, Save the Children) have actively supported legal aid agencies at different levels from central to lower levels, in different geographical areas in development, capacity building and improving the quality of their services. The assignment conducted a small study on legal aid club activities and lessons learnt to suggest recommendations on how to improve this activity in the future.
Time Period : December 2006
Country : Vietnam
Client : Red Barnet
Person days : 2 consultants, 52 days

Download : 070105_Legal_Aid_Club_Final_Report_Vietnam.pdf

Description : Conflict impact assessment for the El Estor nickel mine.
Time Period : November 2006 – January 2007
Country : Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Client : Skye Resources
Person days : 2 consultants, 40 days

Description : The evaluation goal was to identify lessons learnt for future operations concerning natural disasters. A particular concern was to examine the implications of the cluster approach to IDP emergencies.
Time Period : November 2006 – January 2007
Country : Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Client : UNHCR
Person days : 2 consultants, 4 days

Description : The evaluation took into account the activities funded under Peace II over the years 2000 to 2006, with a focus on peace and reconciliation. It also reviewed linkages to the relevant aspects of other peace-building in the regions where Peace II programmes are funded.
Time Period : September 2006 – March 2007
Country : Ireland
Client : Cross-Border Consortium
Person days : 2 consultants, 4 days
Download : 070630_Cross-Border_Evaluation_of_5_3_5_4.pdf
Download : 070707_Peace_II_Evaluation_Digest.pdf

Description : The purpose of the evaluation was to strengthen the administrative capacity of the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights and key human rights NGOs, in resulting in the fostering of human rights in Yemen.
Time Period : October 2006- January 2007
Country : Yemen
Client : European Commission
Person days : 2 consultants, 4 days

Description : The Thailand Burma Border Consortium is a non-profit relief and development agency, an alliance of NGOs working together with displaced people from Burma. It provides food, shelter and non-food items to 140.000 refugees from Burma. The evaluation provided TBBC and its emergency relief assistance partners with a comprehensive understanding of the Emergency Relief Assistance Program using participatory methods. The aim has been to provide lessons learnt for future programming and advocacy priorities.
Time Period : September – December 2006
Country : Thailand
Client : Thailand Burma Border Consortium (Christian Aid, DanChurchAid, IRC, ICCO, etc)
Person days : 1 consultant, 37 days

Description : SHO is the joint fundraising body of NGOs in the Netherlands. After the 2004 Tsunami disaster SHO raised €200 million. The response was assessed against the network’s internal standards and regulations, as well against the Code of Conduct.
Time Period : July – November 2006
Country : Netherlands
Client : SHO (Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties) Novib, Cordaid, Dutch Red Cross, KiA/ICCO, World Vision and others
Person days : 2 consultants with Quest Consult, 48 days

Download : 070213_SHO_Novib_Tsunami_Final Report.pdf

Description : The purpose of the evaluation was three-fold: accountability, guidance and learning. It applied the standard OECD/DAC criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian interventions: relevance/ appropriateness, connectedness, coherence, coverage, efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. The evaluation took place in two phases with field studies in August 2006 and February 2007.
Time Period : July 2006 – February 2007
Country : Sudan, Darfur
Client : World Food Programme
Person days : 4 consultants, 195 days

Description : The evaluation provided an independent assessment of the results – intended and unintended – of the operation undertaken in Pakistan, applying standard OECD/DAC criteria. This lead to recommendations to facilitate operational improvements at various organisational levels, and add to the existing strategy and plan of action for enhancing the Rapid Deployment Capacity by providing valuable lessons learnt from a concrete response to a natural disaster in the context of a protracted complex emergency.
Time Period : July – November 2006
Country : Pakistan, Afghanistan
Client : ICRC
Person days : 3 consultants, 94 days

Download : 071106_ICRC_Evaluation_RD_Pakistan_Final_Report.pdf

Download : 071106_ICRC_Evaluation_RD_Pakistan_Annex1.pdf

Description : Capacity assessment of the Central Tracing Agency of the ICRC in its role to act as a coordinator and technical advisor to national Red Cross Societies in the Restoring Family Links programme.
Time Period : May – October 2006
Country : Switzerland, Thailand, Angola, Namibia, Vietnam
Client : ICRC
Person days : 2 consultants, 152 days

Description : Evaluation of the FSP programme implemented by FIDH (Fédération International de Droit de L’Homme) related to human rights.
Time Period : June – September 2006
Country : DR Congo, central Africa
Client : French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DGCID
Person days : 4 consultants, 60 days
Download : 060913_Rapport_DGCID.pdf

Description : Internal review of the response of the Caritas network to the Tsunami disaster in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Time Period : May – September 2006
Country : Vatican, south east Asia
Client : Secretariat of Caritas Internationalis
Person days : 2 consultants, 30 days

Download : 061105_Caritas_Final_Report_Tsunami.pdf

Description : Country Evaluation of Rwanda in the period 1996-2000. Assessment of the relevance, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of the cooperation, with particular focus on rural development, decentralisation and good governance.
Time Period : January – August 2006
Country : Rwanda
Client : European Commission
Person days : 1 consultant, 10 days
Download : 060713_CSE_RW_volume_1_v12_060706.pdf
Download : 060713_CSE_RW_volume_2_v12_060706.pdf
Download : 060713_CSE_RW_volume_3_v12_060706.pdf

Description : The mission was the evaluation and the financial auditing of the programme for the demobilisation, reintegration and rehabilitation of ex-solders.
Time Period : May -July 2006
Country : Guinea Bissau
Client : European Commission
Person days : 2 consultants, 60 days

Description : Report commissioned by Talisman Energy Inc to provide a technical and impartial assessment of the effects of Talisman’s engagement in development and governance in Sudan. It defines the nature of the voluntary influence exercised by Talisman on the conditions of the population inside the concession in Sudan between 1998 and 2005.
Time Period : January – April 2006
Country : Sudan
Client : Talisman Energy Inc
Person days : 1 consultant, 80 days
Download : 060106_Talisman_Brusset_Expert_Report.pdf

Description : The Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) raised over £20 million pooled funds and £15 million retained funds from the UK public. The evaluation covered the impact and effectiveness of member agencies’ relief efforts.
Time Period : January – March 2006
Country : Sudan
Client : DEC – an umbrella organisation which represents 13 leading UK aid agencies
Person days : 1 consultant in a team of 2 external consultants, 50 days

Description : Review of the lessons learnt from the Tsunami response by one of German’s leading NGOs in emergency aid. Development of learning strategy, in-country learning sessions and facilitation of learning workshops in India and Germany.
Time Period : December 2005 – July 2006
Country : India, south east Asia
Client : Diakonie Emergency Aid
Person days : 1 consultant in a team of 2 external consultants, 50 days

Description : This thematic evaluation was part of the overall evaluation of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition. The study gave an overview of the total volume of funding, the flow of funds and donations of goods in kind, and assessed the appropriateness of the allocation of funds in relation to the actual relief and construction needs.
Time Period : September – November 2005
Country : Europe, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Somalia
Client : Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days : 2 consultants, 30 days

Description : Assessment of three components of CPRI in the two provinces Ruyigi and Citega: community-based leadership program, vocational skills training and community initiatives.
Time Period : October 2005
Country : Burundi
Client : USAID/OTI
Person days : 1 consultant, 30 days

Description : This thematic evaluation of linking relief, rehabilitation and recovery in the Tsunami response is part of the overall evaluation of the Tsunami response under the umbrella of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC).
Time Period : September 2005 – January 2006
Country : Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Client : SIDA, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Person days : 7 consultants and survey team, 200 days

Download : 060313_Sida_Tec_FINAL_SRI_LANKA_LRRD.pdf
Download : 060321_Indonesia_Final_Report_main_document.pdf

Description : Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Tools for the ICRC Preventive Action.
Time Period : September – October 2005
Country : Switzerland
Client : ICRC, Switzerland
Person days : 3 consultants, 53 days

Description : Capacity strengthening of the CNE in communication, impact evaluation of the first election campaign, identification of further need for assistance in transparency within the election process.
Time Period : August – December 2005
Country : Madagascar
Client : European Commission
Person days : 4 consultants, 190 days

Description : This thematic evaluation of the funding response by the various governments, UN agencies and NGOs is part of the overall evaluation of the tsunami response under the umbrella of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC).
Time Period : August – November 2005
Country : Denmark, Ireland
Client : DANIDA, Danish Government
Person days : 3 consultants, 90 days

Description : As part of a broader question of the relationship between development programs and resolving/preventing conflict, the purpose of this evaluation is to identify whether the Casamance Special Objective (SpO2) fostered peace building and created a foundation for post-conflict development in the Casamance.
Time Period : August 2005 – April 2006
Country : Senegal
Client : USAID, Senegal
Person days : 3 consultants, 120 days
Download : usaid_casamance_report_2006.pdf

Description : Training in Evaluation and Impact assessment of Peace Building Projects.
Time Period : June 2005
Country : Belgium, Ireland
Client : INCORE, International Conflict Research
Person days : 10 days

Description : Assessment to what extent the Commission assistance (strategies, programmes/projects) was relevant, efficient and effective in supporting sustainable impacts on good governance processes, and encouraged and promoted good governance approaches and practices, in third countries.
Time Period : January – November 2005
Country : Multiple
Client : European Commission
Person days : 5 consultants, 95 days

Description : Evaluation of the Dutch Humanitarian Assistance in the years 2000-2004. This study was part of a larger evaluation of the Dutch Humanitarian Assistance and includes the case studies on Somalia and Sudan.
Time Period : May – October 2005
Country : Burundi, Eastern DRC
Client : Government of the Netherlands
Person days : 7 consultants, 190 days
Download : 060327_Netherlands_GL_Report.pdf

Description : This mid-term evaluation focused on results at output level (quality, quantity and timeliness of food distribution) and on the progress toward achieving the intended outcomes stated in the WFP project documents (the effect expressed in change of beneficiaries’ conditions) in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
Time Period : April – May 2005
Country : Central America
Client : WFP
Person days : 1 consultant, 55 days
Download : 050812_WFP_Cent_Am_Summary_Report.pdf
Download : 050812_Informe_OPSR_Spanish.pdf

Description : The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) is an independent research organisation that conducts and facilitates action-oriented research and learning that informs and influences policy and practice. This evaluation looked at all respects of AREU’s work, including research and evaluation, communications, and advocacy, and its internal governance and management structure.
Time Period : March – June 2005
Country : Afghanistan
Client : AREU
Person days : 3 consultants, 62 days

Description : Evaluation of the health projects and the quality of assistance provided to the beneficiaries, including an assessment of the most vulnerable’s access to assistance, seen through the perspective of the national political context.
Time Period : February – March 2005
Country : Uganda
Client : MSF France
Person days : 1 consultant, 22 days
Download : Uganda_Evaluation_of_Assistance_to_IDPs_MSF_Franc.pdf

Description : Public consultations concerning a mining project and its impact on society and the environment. Process based on World Bank policies, incl.small and large scale public meetings to collect, reflect, record and analyze the knowledge and attitudes of the stakeholders in relation to the mining projects.
Time Period : January – March 2005
Country : New Caledonia
Client : Falconbridge
Person days : 5 consultants, 165 days

Description : Three fields missions to assess the political and institutional environment and to provide decision-makers of the Syrian government and of the European Commission with sufficient information necessary for the identification and formulation of a long term assistance programme.
Time Period : January – April 2005
Country : Syria
Client : European Commission
Person days : 1 consultant, 71 days
Download : Syria_I_Legal_Framework_for_Non_Profit_Institutions_in_Europe.pdf
Download : Syria_II_analysis_of_Syrian_law_of_associations.pdf
Download : Syria_Identification_Report_final_050606.pdf
Download : Syria_Formulation_Report_final_050531.pdf
Download : Syria_Analysis_of_Voluntary_Organisations_report.pdf

Description : Five bilateral donor organisations, agreed to cooperate on an evaluation of their assistance to Afghanistan since October 2001. The evaluation assessed the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, coherence and connectedness of the assistance provided and identified lessons for improving the response by these donor organisations in future complex security, humanitarian, rehabilitation and development situations.
Time Period : December 2004 – June 2005
Country : Afghanistan
Client : Christian Michelsen Institute, Danida
Person days : 2 consultants, 18 days

Description : Assessment and Project Formulation and implementation of the National Demobilization and Reintegration Program, the current legal and organisational structure of the National Committee on Reinsertion (CNR) and other national implementing agencies are assessed, possible weaknesses identified and recommendations for improvement and strengthening proposed.
Time Period : November 2004 – January 2005
Country : Chad
Client : UNDP
Person days : 3 consultants, 84 days
Download : Final_Report_Summary
Download : Report.pdf

Description : Assessment and analysis of different options for a civilian voluntary peace corps. Investigation into the feasibility of the creation of mechanisms to mobilize civilian volunteers for a broad range of activities in third countries: civilian crisis management, conflict prevention, post conflict peace building, rehabilitation.
Time Period : April – October 2005
Country : Multiple
Client : European Commission – EuropeAid
Person days : 2 consultants in a team of 4 experts, 60 days

Download : Final Report Feasibility Study ECPC 2006
Download : Feasibility study ECPC EP2004

Description : Assessment of community investment programmes.
Time Period : November – December 2004
Country : New Caledonia
Client : Falconbridge
Person days : 20 days

Description : Strengthening the process of signing, ratifying, implementing and monitoring international legal instruments in Laos PDR.
Time Period : September – October 2004
Country : Laos
Client : EC
Person days : 30 days
Download : 2004_Formulation_of_Support_to_Laos_Intl_Law_Project_EC.pdf

Description : The Community Investment Programme is a three-year investment programme for the communities located along the Georgian section of the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and South Caucasus (SCP) Pipelines. The evaluation examines the progress of the first eighteen months of the programme.
Time Period : September – October 2004
Country : Georgia
Client : Environmental Resource Management, BP
Person days : 26 days

Description : Several donors have initiated a common evaluation framework for evaluations about IDPs. About 15 evaluations have been commissioned within this framework. This synthesis study summarizes the process and gives recommendations for assistance to IDPs on policy level.
Time Period : September – December 2004
Country : Multiple
Client : Danida, Sida
Person days : 3 consultants, 80 days
Download : IDP_Synthesis_Study_Final_Report.pdf
Download : IDP_Synthesis_Study_Final_Report_Short_Version.pdf

Description : The analysis is part of the preparations for a much larger evaluation of humanitarian, reconstruction and nation-building assistance provided by five bilateral donor organisations.
Time Period : July – September 2004
Country : Afghanistan
Client : Danida
Person days : 2 consultants, 89 days
Download : Final_Report_Analysis_of_Aid_Flow_to_Afghanistan.pdf

Description : Needs assessment and recommended actions, development of criteria for selection of civil society organisations, organisation of the selection process and drafting of ToR.
Time Period : July – August 2004
Country : Macedonia
Client : EC
Person days : 2 consultants, 60 days
Download : 2004_Capacity_Building_Macedonia_EAR_Assessment_Report.pdf
Download : 2004_Capacity_Building_Macedonia_EAR_Narrative_Report.pdf

Description : Short-term consultancy to further identify a programme of support and immediate support under the EC’s Institutional Support Programme
Time Period : June 2004 – February 2005
Country : Liberia
Client : EC
Person days : 180 days
Download : 2004_Support_to_Elections_in_Liberia_EC_Final_Report.pdf
Download : 2004_Support_to_Elections_in_Liberia_EC_Annex_2-11.pdf

Description : Evaluation of Conflict Prevention Programmes of Search for Common Ground and Global Rights
Time Period : July – August 2004
Country : Burundi
Client : MSI / USAID
Person days : 21 days
Download : Evaluation of USAID Programs in Burundi Global Rights.pdf
Download : Evaluation of USAID Programs in Burundi Search for Common Ground.pdf

Description : Recommendations to the European Agency for Reconstruction and drafting of ToR for the projects “Technical Assistance for the Implementation and Coordination for the Decentralisation Process”.
Time Period : June – July 2004
Country : Macedonia
Client : EU
Person days : 14 days
Download : Macedonia Decentralization Policy needs assessment.pdf

Description : Training in Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Peace Building Projects.
Time Period : June 2004
Country : Belgium, Ireland
Client : Incore International Conflict Research
Person days : 9 days

Description : Development of the methodology and implementation of the evaluation of a media conflict resolution programme over the years 1999-2004.
Time Period : March – August 2004
Country : Macedonia, Belgium
Client : Search for Common Ground Brussels / Washington
Person days : 3 consultants, 68 days
Download : 2004_SFCG_Macedonia.pdf
Download : 2004_SFCG_Macedonia_Annexes.pdf

Description : Identification of the requirements to conduct the elections, specifically the preparation of an immediate programme of assistance to the NEC, and further identification of a detailed programme of EC support to the elections process.
Time Period : April – May 2004
Country : Liberia
Client : EU
Person days : 38 days
Download : 2005_TA_for_the_2005_Liberia_Elections_EC.pdf

Description : Evaluation of the humanitarian assistance of the international communities to IDPs in Indonesia.
Time Period : March – June 2004
Country : Indonesia
Client : Sida/Swedish government
Person days : 40 days
Download : 2004_Assistance_to_IDPs_in_Indonesia_Sida.pdf

Description : Elaboration of a set of programming indicators for an operational unit.
Time Period : January – June 2004
Country : Brussels, Belgium
Client : EU
Person days : 3 consultants, 140 days
Download : 2005_EIDHR_EC_Indicators.pdf

Description : Evaluation of MSF Primary and Secondary Health Assistance for Afghan Refugees in Gulshahr Mashhad, Iran.
Time Period : January – February 2004
Country : Iran
Client : Médecins Sans Frontières
Person days : 18 days
Download : 2004_MSF_Iran.pdf
Download : 2004 MSF Iran Annexes ABDE.pdf
Download : 2004_MSF_Iran_AnnexeC.pdf

Description : Assessment of effectiveness and impact with a special focus on food security, water and women’s programme components and capacity building of the local partner.
Time Period : January – February 2004
Country : Sudan
Client : DanChurchAid
Person days : 23 days
Download : 2004 Evaluation of CEAS for Danchurchaid.pdf

Description : Identification mission for the Conflict Mitigation Package 2, Support to the Judicial System and Human Rights in Nepal.
Time Period : February – August 2004
Country : Nepal
Client : EU
Person days : 3 consultants, 132 days
Download : 2004_Appraisal_of_the_Nepal_Conflict_Mitigation_Package_2.pdf

Description : Study on the comparative costs and benefits of different conflict management approaches.
Time Period : March 2004
Country : n.a.
Client : Bradford University, DFID
Person days : 10 days
Download : 2004_DFID_Spendingtosave04-18.pdf
Download : ev647afghanistan_2.pdf).pdf
Download : ev647sleone.pdf
Download : ev647russia.pdf
Download : Ev647sudan.pdf
Download : ev647_Evaluation_of_the_Conflict_Prevention_Pools.pdf
Download : ev647summary.pdf
Download : ev647ukgovt.pdf
Download : ev647SecuritySectorReform.pdf
Download : ev647UN.pdf
Download : ev647synthesis.pdf
Download : ev647ukgovt.pdf
Download : ev647portfolio.pdf

Description : Series of technical notes by the European Commission’s evaluation unit to support a growing number of evaluations in this field.
Time Period : February – April 2003
Country : Brussels
Client : European Commission
Person days : 60 days

Description : Review of the instruments and policies which exist as part of the Renforcement des Capacités Africaines de Maintien de la Paix and EU crisis management capabilities.
Time Period : November 2002 – March 2003
Country : Africa
Client : French Ministry of Defence
Person days : 95 days

Description : Global performance evaluation of a €500 million programme.
Time Period : October 2002 – January 2003
Country : Global
Client : European Commission
Person days : 65 days
Download : CE_Rehab_vol1.pdf
Download : CE_Rehab_vol2.pdf

Description : First external evaluation of protection activities carried out by ICRC, and is tasked with exploring some of the new concepts applied in Côte d’Ivoire.
Time Period : August – September 2002
Country : Côte d’Ivoire
Client : International Committee of the Red Cross
Person days : 27 days

Description : This project is operated through UNHCR, and has developed some innovative practices in legal assistance to populations in areas expecting repatriation.
Time Period : July 2002
Country : Burundi
Client : World Bank
Person days : 20 days
Download : 2002_UNHCR_Burundi.pdf

Description : The project concentrates on providing legal assistance to states, and on running regional conferences.
Time Period : June – July 2002
Country : New York, Rome
Client : No Peace Without Justice
Person days : 18 person days
Download : 2002_EC_InternationalCourt.pdf

Description : Assessing the impact of the conflict on development programmes, and the impact of development on the conflict, leading to specific recommendations on adjusting current activities.
Time Period : May – June 2002
Country : Nepal
Client : UK Department of International Development
Person days : 30 days
Download : 2002_DFID_Nepal_Final_Report.pdf

Description : Evaluation with a focus on decision making and field effectiveness.
Time Period : May – September 2001
Country : Bosnia, Kosovo, India, Rwanda
Client : Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days : 25 days
Download : Evaluation_of_Norwegian_Red_Cross.pdf

Description : Evaluation with a focus on vulnerability mapping.
Time Period : September – November 2001
Country : Angola
Client : World Food Programme
Person days : 30 days
Download : WFP_Angola_0102.pdf

Description : Evaluation with a focus on impact assessment through extensive field survey methodologies.
Time Period : December 2001 – March 2002
Country : Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Client : International Committee of the Red Cross
Person days : 66 days
Download : 2002_ICRC_MA_B&HFinal.pdf
Download : 2002_ICRC_MA_Croatia.pdf
Download : 2002_ICRC_MA_Kosovo.pdf
Download : 2002_ICRC_MA_Synthesis.pdf

Description : This report has been commissioned as a briefing for the EC Commissioners dealing with external relations. The Reference Report offers an inventory of legal instruments, evaluations and policy orientations, while the Synthesis Report proposes ways of improving the coherence of the overall effort.
Time Period : May – August 2001
Country : Brussels, Belgium
Client : EC-EuropeAid
Person days : 99 days
Download : EuropeAid_0801_Democracy.pdf

Description : This study reviewed ongoing international efforts in country, with a focus on anti-corruption and the rule of law.
Time Period : March 2001
Country : Tanzania
Client : European Commission
Person days : 42 days
Download : EC_Tanzania_0401.pdf

Description : Evaluation including impact assessment of rapid rural rehabilitation.
Time Period : January – February 2001
Country : Rwanda
Client : French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Person days : 70 days
Download : FrceRwanda_0301.pdf

Description : Evaluation of Norwegian People’s Aid Mine Clearance Activities in Angola, 1999-2000, with a focus on management capabilities.
Time Period : November – December 2000
Country : Angola
Client : Norwegian Ministry of Cooperation (NORAD)
Person days : 2 consultants team, 38 days
Download : Norway Mine Angola 2000

Description : Capacity assessment of ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) humanitarian aid operations in Rwanda.
Time Period : August – September 2000
Country : Rwanda
Client : Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through IDP Consult
Person days : Team Leader, 20 days

Description : Evaluation of Amnesty’s crisis response (effectiveness, efficiency and impact) for the period May to August 2000.
Time Period : August – September 2000
Country : Sierra Leone
Client : Amnesty International, International Secretariat
Person days : 12 days

Description : Strategic review of Commission management in human rights and democracy, “Evaluation of the EC positive measures in ACP countries in the field of human rights, democracy and conflict prevention”. Emphasis is given here to the effects of reform and knowledge gaps.
Time Period : January – June 2000
Country : ACP countries
Client : EC Service commun relex (in consortium with Franklin Advisory Services Belgium, and SEPIA Luxembourg)
Person days : 80 days
Download : ACP-95-2000.pdf
Download : Ethiopia-95-2000.pdf
Download : Haiti-95-2000.pdf
Download : Malawi-95-2000.pdf
Download : Nigeria-95-2000.pdf
Download : RDC-Tanzavia-95-2000.pdf
Download : Rwanda-95-2000.pdf
Download : Senegal-95-2000.pdf

Description : Evaluation of the EC cooperation programmes in Pillar III of the Amsterdam Treaty (immigration, asylum and police cooperation).
Time Period : October 1999 – April 2000
Country : Brussels, Copenhagen, Athens
Client : EC Secretariat General
Person days : 20 days

Description : Evaluation of the operations undertaken from April 1999 to December 2000 in the Balkans region by this NGO umbrella group.
Time Period : January – March 2000
Country : Kosovo and Macedonia
Client : Action of Churches Together
Person days : 30 days

Description : Strategic evaluation of EC Food Security programme from 1996 to 2000, for the attention of the Brussels based Food Aid Committee of the European Union.
Time Period : January – April 2000
Country : Brussels, Belgium
Client : Natural Resources Institute (UK), EC Evaluation Unit
Person days : 30 days

Description : Evaluation of the ECHO Global Plans for Burundi and Tanzania in 1998 and 1999 with a focus on strategic planning methodologies and the interconnections between the assistance and the dynamics of the conflict.
Time Period : November – December 1999
Country : Burundi and Tanzania
Client : EC / ECHO
Person days : 36 days
Download : ECHO-WFP_1199.pdf

Description : Strategic Evaluation of Danish Humanitarian Assistance to the African Great Lakes region, 1992-1998. Strategic review of channels of assistance, effectiveness and impact of activities undertaken, with a focus on protection issues.
Time Period : March 1999 – September 1999
Country : Copenhagen, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo
Client : Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Person days : 6 consultants team, 188 days
Download : Danida-GL_92-98.pdf

Description : Evaluation of European Community Humanitarian Office, as per Regulation 1257/96, with particular responsibility for the institutional context (member states, UN agencies, NGOs), international law and Common Foreign and Security Policy. Visits to crisis countries as case studies.
Time Period : May 1998 – March 1999
Country : Belgium, EU member states, Palestine, Niger, Honduras, Nicaragua
Client : EC Humanitarian Office (through Franklin Advisory Services)
Person days : 2 consultants for 15 persons team, 120 days

Description : Evaluation of EC rehabilitation activities in Liberia and in Rwanda over the period 1992-1998, with a particular focus on democracy building assessment.
Time Period : April 1998 – September 1998
Country : Liberia, Rwanda
Client : European Commission, DGVIII (through APT Consult UK)
Person days : 2 consultants, 53 days

Download : EC_Liberia_99.pdf

Description : First assessment in the displaced camps around Khartoum. Attempt to use protection through cultural norms for the NGO Save the Children.
Time Period : May 1998 – April 1999
Country : Sudan
Client : Save the Children
Person days : 12 consultants, 220 days

Download : 1999_SavChildrenDK_Khartoum.pdf

Download : 1999_SavChildrenDK_SouthSudan.pdf