Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide

This Guide is intended to help all those thinking of planning, designing and implementing evaluations and/or intending to use them, drawing on that critical mass of knowledge and particularly on a large number of Good practice examples. It attempts to support high-quality evaluations that contribute to improved performance by providing the best available evidence of what is working well, what is not, and why.

The EHA Guide presents a series of structured stages for evaluations to help you achieve quality results. Each of these stages needs to be adapted to suit the context of the evaluation (considering factors such as: crisis, response, country, region, project or programme, or team) as well as the organisational context (for instance, ‘buy-in’ from leadership, learning culture). The Guide presents examples from large-scale and small-scale evaluations. It is important to determine the level of ambition of an EHA on the resources available, in terms of both internal capacity and funds.