Evaluating humanitarian action

Invisible wounds: The life-saving imperative of mental health in Gaza and lessons learned

This report highlights the life-saving importance of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) for communities and frontline workers and how tailored, context-specific care can restore dignity and resilience amid ongoing conflict.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Final evaluation of the DEC Turkiye-Syria earthquake appeal

This final evaluation assesses the performance and quality of IR’s earthquake response across Phase 1 and 2, using OECD DAC criteria.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

From Lessons to Leadership: Prioritizing Collective Accountability to Affected People

• Guidance and Tools

Twelve ways to take anticipatory action to scale in conflicts and recurring crises

This brief distils findings & recommendations from all SPARC publications relevant to supporting anticipatory action in conflict and recurring crises.

• Research and Studies

Strengthening resilience through disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation - Final evaluation report

Final evaluation of a project aimed to build build community resilience through disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and the integration of protection, gender and inclusion, and community engagement and accountability in eight high-risk communities across three Sudanese states.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Les communautés sous pression: Perceptions dans l’est de la RDC

Communities in eastern DRC want peace, safety, and fair aid. Despite crisis, social ties and mutual help still hold.

• Research and Studies

Communities under pressure: Perceptions from eastern DRC

Communities in eastern DRC want peace, safety, and fair aid. Despite crisis, social ties and mutual help still hold.

• Research and Studies

Using cropland maps to monitor livestock routes in Sudan

This study used remote sensing to analyse the effects of livestock route interventions in Sudan and detected large-scale cropland abandonment.

• Research and Studies

Assessment of opportunities, structures and limitations to community participation and accountability in the Ukraine response

This assessment by NRC aimed to identify opportunities, structures, and limitations to community participation and accountability in NRC programmes within the Ukraine response context, specifically in Moldova and Ukraine.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Définitions : critères pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

Definitions: Criteria for the evaluation of the humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Guidance and Tools

تكييف معايير منظمة التعاون الاقتصادي والتنمية لتقييم العمل الإنساني

• Guidance and Tools

Definiciones: los criterios para la evaluación de la acción humanitaria

• Guidance and Tools

Evaluation Report on Accountability to Affected People

This evaluation report presents a comprehensive assessment of OCHA’s efforts to enable collective AAP across the humanitarian system from 2022 to 2024.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Value for money digest: Transition to livelihood opportunities in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria

This document presents an extract of a Value for Money (VfM) analysis conducted for a transition to livelihood opportunities intervention in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, implemented from October 2020 and December 2023.

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) 2026: Discussion Paper

This proposal charts a path for the HPC during a time of incredible uncertainty, enabling humanitarian partners to carry out a lighter HPC that still produces critical shared understanding, focus, advocacy and action.

• Guidance and Tools

How are humanitarians using artificial intelligence in 2025? Mapping current practice and future potential

This report, explores the evolving use of artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector, and shows how AI is currently being applied and experienced in practice, based on insights from practitioners across 144 countries and territories

• Research and Studies

¿Cómo están usando la inteligencia artificial los trabajadores humanitarios en 2025?

This report explores the evolving use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the humanitarian sector, based on insights from practitioners across 144 countries and territories.

• Research and Studies