Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project

Abstract

This article examines participatory evaluation of humanitarian aid projects in post-conflict contexts,\ud through the presentation of a particular case: the evaluation of a project supporting herders and\ud Bedouin communities breeding small ruminants in the Gaza Strip. The article analyses the current\ud situation in the Gaza Strip, a unique humanitarian context, in order to gain insight into the value of\ud participatory evaluation in post-conflict settings. The article analyses the participatory evaluation in\ud order to understand how participation functions, what lessons can be learned and what outcomes\ud can be generated. Finally, this experience demonstrates how participatory evaluation can work\ud effectively in humanitarian settings despite the obvious constraints of conflict and post-conflict\ud settings. Whilst participatory evaluation contributes to improving humanitarian-aid interventions, a\ud more structural approach to participation is needed to achieve concrete and durable results

How can assessment systems be used to evaluate healthcare activities in the care farms?

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Evaluation

“…Moreover, the need for rapid response in emergency situations often overrides attention to lessons learnt from evaluations. Participation (Rossignoli et al 2017), capacity building (Vallejo and When 2016), and the role played by donors (Andersen, Bull and Kennedy-Chouane 2014) represent key aspects of humanitarian evaluations and may significantly affect their quality.…”

Challenges and strategies for implementers and evaluators working in conflict settings

“…Accountability requirements can exacerbate power imbalances between funding or donor agencies and local organizations, staff and communities, and can narrow what gets evaluated and reported to short time frames. Evaluation in conflict zones historically emerged from international development work (Rossignoli et al, 2017), where in-house monitoring and evaluation are conducted within one department of the larger humanitarian organization running programming (Carden and Alkin, 2012). Aid workers, including evaluators, are accountable to not only the conflict-affected communities but also their own organizational hierarchies and programmatic funders (Ebrahim, 2016; Madianou et al, 2016).…”

“…Evaluators and practitioners in conflict zones are making efforts to utilize innovative, participatory, social change–seeking methods, including short-term local consultancies (Ridde et al, 2012), incorporating focus groups and ethnographic qualitative methods (Rossignoli et al, 2017), and developing frameworks to distinguish evidence from rumor (Schon, 2021). Practitioners and evaluators in conflict zones have employed strategies such as remote management or delegating activities to local partners who are accepted by the local community and are cultural and linguistic insiders (Chaudri et al, 2019).…”