ALNAP's 7th Review of Humanitarian Action
SUMMARY
The 7th edition of the ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action (RHA) explores critical issues involved in the development of mechanisms for assessing and improving the performance of humanitarian actors. It contains a short introduction and three main substantive studies.
The first study is on organisational change and provides perhaps the first substantive analysis of the experiences of humanitarian organisations in carrying out processes of change and improvement. The second study focuses on joint evaluations of humanitarian action and provides a comprehensive account of current strengths and weaknesses. This chapter also contains a meta-evaluation, which assesses the quality of joint-evaluation reports using the ALNAP Quality Pro Forma. The third study is an evaluation synthesis of key lessons learned from the international response to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.
Contents
 Preliminaries and Foreword
Collective action and performance: a personal view
John Mitchell
Organisational change in the humanitarian sector
Paul Clarke and Ben Ramalingam
Joint evaluations coming of age? The quality and future scope of joint evaluations
Tony Beck and Margie Buchanan-Smith
Perceptions of crisis and response: A synthesis of evaluations
of the response to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake
John Cosgrave and Maurice Herson
Annexes
Key Messages
In addition, a summary of key messages is also available and aims to amplify the main findings of this year’s Review for a wider audience. These are available in English, French and Spanish.
Key Messages (English)
Key Messages (French version)
Key Messages (Spanish version)
About the RHA
The ALNAP RHA series is published annually and aims to enhance analysis and understanding of key trends and issues relating to humanitarian performance as a means of supporting improvement in sector-wide performance.
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