Monitoring humanitarian action

Nepal drought response 2025: Lessons, learning and reflection workshop report

This report reviews Nepal’s 2025 drought and cholera crisis in Madhesh Province, capturing lessons from the Nepal Red Cross Society’s first drought response operation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Indigenous knowledge systems in evaluation practice

A thought‑provoking webinar on indigenous knowledge systems in evaluation, exploring equity, epistemic justice, and decolonising frameworks through African and global perspectives.

• Commentaries

The role of local actors in gender responsive and inclusive social protection systems

This study shows how local actors can move from implementers to leaders in building gender‑responsive, inclusive, and sustainable social protection systems.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Research and Studies

Harnessing AI for humanitarian impact: Lessons and insights from 11 case studies

This report draws on 11 case studies to show how AI is being applied across the humanitarian sector — from predictive models and mapping tools to chatbots and knowledge‑retrieval systems.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Grand Bargain: 10 years on

As the Grand Bargain marks 10 years in 2026, amid funding constrains, this paper argues that the next phase must protect past gains while driving credible, practical and high-quality humanitarian reform despite growing resource constraints.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Real time evaluation: Myanmar earthquake response

This real-time evaluation examines the first three months of the response to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and lessons for future humanitarian action in complex emergency settings.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Türkiye earthquakes lessons learned workshop report

This report captures key achievements, challenges, and lessons learned from IFRC and Turkish Red Cross' response to the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Learning from Crises: Responding to droughts

17 lessons highlighting what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Responding to droughts

This lessons paper distills 17 top-level lessons from humanitarian responses to droughts between 2012 and 2024. The lessons highlight areas of strong convergence on what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of the project “Increasing capacities and scale for anticipatory action including through social protection systems”

Evaluation of FAO and DG ECHO's joint project to integrate anticipatory action with social protection systems in Bangladesh, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Pakistan, the Philippines and Viet Nam.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Flagship Initiative Final Report

This final evaluation synthesises activities and learning that emerged from the Flagship Initiative.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Synthesis and meta-analysis of findings from crisis-specific inter-agency humanitarian evaluations covering the period 2015-2025

The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven interagency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different crisis contexts between 2015 – 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Adaptation des critères de l’OCDE pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire

• Guidance and Tools

Impacts of climate hazards on agriculture in Nyumanzi Settlement – Adjumani District

This brief highlights how extreme heat, drought, and flooding are affecting agricultural livelihoods in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement.

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian AI webinar: Lessons learned, trends and opportunities for 2026

In this webinar, the Humanitarian Leadership Academy and NetHope brought together practitioners to discuss experiences with humanitarian AI, emerging sector trends, and practical applications in the field.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

تقرير موجز عن التقييم الاستراتيجي لنهج البرنامج إزاء الاستهداف وتحديد الأولويات للمساعدات الغذائية والتغذوية

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Informe resumido de la evaluación estratégica de los enfoques del PMA en materia de selección de beneficiarios y establecimiento de prioridades para la asistencia alimentaria y nutricional Resumen

Esta evaluación estratégica examinó la pertinencia, adecuación y eficacia de los enfoques del PMA en materia de selección de beneficiarios y establecimiento de prioridades para la asistencia alimentaria y nutricional, en un contexto de necesidades crecientes y recursos menguantes.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Rapport succinct de l’évaluation des approches suivies par le PAM en matière de ciblage et d’établissement des priorités aux fins de l’assistance alimentaire et nutritionnelle

La présente évaluation stratégique visait à analyser la pertinence, l’adéquation et l’efficacité des approches suivies par le PAM en matière de ciblage et d’établissement des priorités aux fins de l’assistance alimentaire et nutritionnelle en cette période d’augmentation des besoins et de contraction des ressources.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Strategic evaluation of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance

This strategic evaluation assessed the relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance in a time of rising needs and shrinking resources, covering the period from 2019 to 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Strategic evaluation of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance

This strategic evaluation assessed the effectiveness of WFP’s approaches to targeting and prioritization for food and nutrition assistance.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned