Evaluating humanitarian action

Relief, recovery and resilience: A study of World Vision HDP Nexus programming in northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan

World Vision research study on project-level programmatic implementation and coordination across the HDP nexus in the region of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.

• Research and Studies

Pilot impact evaluation of the home-grown school feeding programme in Guatemala

Pilot impact evaluation of WFP and the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Agriculture smartphone app 'School Feeding Management Application' (SFMA), documenting causal impacts of the app on procurement practices and inform the potential scale-up of the application.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Saving lives, time and money: Evidence from anticipatory action

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Ukraine: Multi-purpose cash assistance and sectoral outcomes assessment

This study aims to provide an evidence base on the degree and ways multi-purpose cash contributes to achieving targeted sectoral outcomes for beneficiary households in Ukraine enabling transparent, efficient, and data-driven decision-making of the CWG and humanitarian clusters.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Reflection of Gaza War on persons with and without disabilities

This report captures the results of a community needs assessment in Gaza on shelter conditions, medical care, financial and livelihood needs, psychological support, exploitation and abuse, accessibility and inclusion, and access to education and protection.

• Research and Studies

Evaluation of the MSF-OCB’s maternal and child health project in Kenema, Sierra Leone

MSF Kenema project focuses on reducing maternal and under five mortality and morbidity while strengthening the capacity of health workers

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Flagship Initiative: Second year learning report (April 2025)

This second annual external learning report summarizes the system-wide implications of the Flagship Initiative’s learning to date.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

A tale of two borders: Double humanitarian standards in refugee reception

This report explores how local organisations and aid workers organised the provision of aid differently depending on what border they operated at, and the extent to which the two responses differed during the period between 2021 and 2024.

• Research and Studies

Impact evaluation of anticipatory action in Nepal

This impact evaluation produces rigorous evidence to understand the impact of initiating anticipatory humanitarian assistance around a severe flooding event on food security, coping, psychological well-being, and livelihood outcomes in Nepal.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Does resilience-building last when projects end? Retrospective lessons from projects to support pastoralists in Turkana, Kenya

This retrospective study examines the longer-term impacts of three interventions in Turkana, Kenya, six years after a project ended.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What happened when resilience-building projects closed: Stories of change from Chad

Retrospective learning and resilience-building in Chad – what happened five years after a project introduced climate-smart agriculture?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Creating resilient systems: Greening the humanitarian supply chain whilst promoting localisation

This report examines the intersection of environmental sustainability and localisation within humanitarian supply chains, focusing on the challenges, opportunities and best practices for operationalising these two agendas.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Destruction and displacement in Ukraine: The cost to civilians two years on

This report is based on a study conducted to better understand the war's impact on people inside Ukraine, on both those who are currently internally displaced (IDPs) and those who are not displaced

• Research and Studies

What can humanitarians learn from Somalia’s response to the worst drought in four decades?

This HNPW session explored the successes and challenges of the humanitarian response in Somalia, along with ongoing efforts to enhance its effectiveness.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Neutrality in humanitarianism: what can we learn from Gaza?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Webinar: From listening to practice: Traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness | HNPW 2025

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Food insecurity among internally displaced people in Somalia

This analytical report, jointly produced by FAO and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), examines how food insecurity has evolved among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia over the period 2017–2024, using time-series IPC data disaggregated by displacement status.

• Research and Studies

Synthesising lessons and promising practices for country-level coordination in delivery of joined-up humanitarian cash and social protection

This report maps existing country-level evidence, analyses promising practices in six countries, and includes forward-looking recommendations.

• Research and Studies

Guidance for adapting protection assessment tools to become more disability inclusive

• Guidance and Tools

Bez wykluczeń: Dobre praktyki antydyskryminacyjne dla sektora humanitarnego

A practical guide to anti-discrimination in humanitarian work, addressing key forms of exclusion and inequality.

• Guidance and Tools