Category: Monitoring and evaluation
The ALNAP Annual Review 20021 provides a synthesis of the principal findings and recommendations of evaluations of humanitarian action, completed and made available to ALNAP in 2000-2001.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 13)
In humanitarian work, how do we know that we are positively reaching distinct members of a community? When we calculate beneficiary households, can we be sure that everyone in the household is really benefiting? And is it clear to what extent they are benefiting?.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 32)
Summary of published research.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 9)
The operational contexts for ‘within geographical area targeting’ are limited. This supplement has focused on targeting food aid in emergencies within geographical areas.
Supplement 1, July 2004 (page 29)
Summary of published research.
Issue 40, February 2011 (page 86)
Summary of published research.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 8)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 20)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 29, December 2006 (page 32)
A review.
Issue 13, August 2001 (page 3)
Summary of research.
Issue 37, November 2009 (page 7)
The Rwanda crisis of 1994, resulting in an estimated 50,000 deaths from cholera amongst refugees in Goma and the subsequent repatriation of over one million refugees back to Rwanda in 1997, have clearly demonstrated the need for advance health information and risk mapping for effective contingency planning for large population movements.
Issue 4, June 1998 (page 19)
Summary of published paper.
Issue 21, March 2004 (page 6)
It is being recognised more and more that we need to improve the ways in which we measure and document emergency programme efficiency.
Issue 1, May 1997 (page 11)
Over the last twenty years, humanitarian organisations have accumulated a wealth of technical expertise in nutrition to guide emergency interventions.
Issue 16, August 2002 (page 24)
Global food aid deliveries reached a record low in 2007. They declined by 15% to 5.9 million tons, the lowest level since 1961.
Issue 34, October 2008 (page 4)
In the past, little emphasis has been placed on monitoring what happens to food aid after it has reached the distribution point. Donor reporting has been limited to the delivery of food to its intended destination (Jaspars and Young, 1995). For this reason, “good systems of monitoring and evaluation, to establish whether food aid is indeed reaching intended beneficiaries (and at reasonable cost of delivery), are disturbingly rare.” (Barrett, 2002).
Supplement 1, July 2004 (page 22)
A new tool has been developed at the Food Security Analysis Unit ( FSAU) to harmonise and improve the rigour of classifying and providing early warning of various stages of food security and humanitarian situations.
Issue 28, July 2006 (page 15)
Following deterioration in the food security situation in Zimbabwe at the end of 2001, by December 2002, a number of emergency assessments had been carried out in the country.
Issue 18, March 2003 (page 31)
Summary of workshop.
Issue 19, July 2003 (page 26)
Summary of report.
Issue 33, June 2008 (page 30)
Summary of evaluation.
Issue 32, January 2008 (page 26)
It has become the practice in several countries1 to routinely combine nutrition surveys with a food security component in order to contextualise anthropometric results, leading to more informed and appropriate intervention design.
Issue 13, August 2001 (page 8)
We have been working as field monitors on the Oxfam Community Situation Indicator (CSI) project in the Red Sea State (RSS) for over four years.
Issue 7, July 1999 (page 16)
An internal evaluation.
Issue 5, October 1998 (page 24)
This article was written based on a WFP consultation to Malawi in February 2005.
Issue 25, May 2005 (page 43)