Humanitarian action in developing countries: Who evaluates who?

Montclos, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2010.11.005

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“…The second consequence of the approach is the low participation of stakeholders. In fact humanitarian assistance is often conceived as a top-down process managed from above by foreign operators, who have limited knowledge of the context and issues involved, and where the goals of the intervention are planned from outside the country involved (ALNAP, 2001, 2012, 2016; Pérouse de Montclos, 2012; Ridde et al, 2012). Interventions in the Gaza Strip tend not to involve a participatory approach, nor is any concept of ownership observable in the implementation of such interventions.…”

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NGOs and intergovernmental organizations operating in humanitarian actions are usually assessed by the donors rather than by those who are supposed to benefit. The methodologies used are based on interviews with key informants, disregarding the direct involvement of the plurality of stakeholders and the possible outcomes of learning from participating in the evaluation process (Pérouse de Montclos, 2012). This is even more true in humanitarian emergencies (Ridde et al, 2012), in conflict and post-conflict situations, where because of the scarcity of resources and expertise, evaluations are rarely participative (ALNAP, 2001, 2012, 2016; Brown and Donini, 2014; Brown et al, 2014).…”

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is even more true in humanitarian emergencies (Ridde et al, 2012), in conflict and post-conflict situations, where because of the scarcity of resources and expertise, evaluations are rarely participative (ALNAP, 2001, 2012, 2016; Brown and Donini, 2014; Brown et al, 2014). The non-profit sector engaged in international humanitarian aid generally pays more attention to the wishes of its donors, especially the richest ones, than to the needs of the poorest segments of the population who should be participating in the evaluation process (Fink and Redaelli, 2011; Pérouse de Montclos, 2012). As a result, such evaluations fail both to investigate the satisfaction of the beneficiaries and to promote their participation.…”

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, such evaluations fail both to investigate the satisfaction of the beneficiaries and to promote their participation. As Pérouse de Montclos (2012) points out, humanitarian interventions often just focus on the logistics and on mechanisms underlying the delivery of humanitarian aid, be it goods or services.…”

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project

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Giani²,

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et al. 2017

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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

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Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Gaza Stripmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project

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Giani²,

Iacovo³

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“…This might be due to the fact that humanitarian operations management is “a relatively new field of study” (Pedraza‐Martinez and Van Wassenhove 2016). In his research, Pe´rouse de Montclos (2012) focused on “who” evaluates a humanitarian action rather than on “how” the evaluation is performed and proposed a framework to develop third‐party evaluations. He suggested that, to facilitate learning, evaluation methodology and results should also be available to the general public.…”

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Evaluating Disaster Operations Management: An Outcome‐Process Integrated Approach

Paciarotti

Valiakhmetova

2021

Production and Operations Management

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Humanitarian operations play a crucial role in alleviating human and social losses caused by natural disasters. The best way to know responders’ preparedness and ability to conduct efficient and effective humanitarian operations is to perform an evaluation. When evaluating humanitarian operations, the focus is mainly on their outcomes while the option of concentrating on the process is only mentioned, without examining in‐depth the subject nor providing specific tools for its analysis. This study tries to fill this gap by proposing and testing an outcome/process integrated approach for the evaluation of disaster operations management. The output analysis and the process analysis of disaster operations management are performed jointly by means of a questionnaire and a modeling tool, respectively. The integrated framework proposed has been applied to the emergency response of a small non‐profit organization to a flood. It has been shown that the two methods applied separately could give a distorted or partial picture of the operations under study, while the integrated framework proposed has proved to be effective, since it has brought to a deeper understanding of the processes. The approach can be used by practitioners to evaluate disaster operations management, and accurately and efficiently identify the key elements, strengths, and main weaknesses of relief operations.

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Research on Evaluation Ethics: Reflections and an Agenda

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2015

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Humanitarian action in developing countries: Who evaluates who?

Cited by 19 publications

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Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project

Enhancing participatory evaluation in a humanitarian aid project

Evaluating Disaster Operations Management: An Outcome‐Process Integrated Approach

Research on Evaluation Ethics: Reflections and an Agenda

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