The COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition commissioned a scoping study focused on providing support to participants planning evaluation of the coherence of the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the OECD DAC evaluation criterion of coherence. This study was intended to inform the development of thoughtful, insightful and useful evaluation and to prompt critical thinking by suggesting relevant concepts and ways of thinking that can be applied in different contexts. This was a desk-based study consisting of review of almost 200 documents and interviews with 16 key informants.