Use of evaluation evidence

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluation of WFP’s Supply Chain Strategic Roadmap (2022–2025)

This evaluation assessed the roadmap’s contribution to guiding the strategic direction of WFP’s supply chain; its efficiency; its results in terms of WFP’s work in leading emergency response, strengthening national systems and providing services to partners; and how the ambitions underpinning the road map were supported by strategic enablers.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Somalia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2022–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Somalia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluación del plan estratégico para el país del PMA en Guatemala 2021–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Guatemala.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Armenia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2019–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Armenia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Plan International’s Ukraine humanitarian response in Moldova, Poland and Romania

Independent evaluation of Plan International’s DEC 2B Ukraine response for children and communities.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Global humanitarian overview 2025

• Research and Studies

Local government-led anticipatory action: Lessons from Mali and Uganda

This report examines examples of anticipatory actions led by local authorities, drawing on case studies in Mali and Uganda.

• Research and Studies

Cost-benefit analysis of drought risk reduction anticipatory action in the Western Province of Zambia

This technical report applies a cost-benefit analysis to assess the economic viability of selected drought risk reduction anticipatory actions in the Western Province of Zambia.

• Research and Studies

Cinq leçons pour renforcer la résilience lors de conflits et de crises récurrentes : Résultats des études rétrospectives menées par SPARC sur le soutien aux moyens d’ existence

Cette note d’orientation résume les enseignements tirés de cinq études de cas rétrospectives en Éthiopie, au Kenya et au Tchad.

• Research and Studies