This evaluation provides an independent assessment of the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations’ (DG ECHO’s) interventions in the humanitarian health sector during the period 2014 to 2016. The evaluation, launched by DG ECHO in November 2016, was carried out by ICF Consulting Services Ltd, with specialist inputs from humanitarian aid and health experts.
The purpose of the evaluation was to analyse DG ECHO’s portfolio of health interventions between 2014-2016, reporting findings against seven core evaluation criteria specified in the Terms of Reference (relevance, coherence, connectedness, effectiveness, efficiency, EU Added Value and sustainability), in order to provide conclusions and recommendations to inform DG ECHO’s future interventions in this area and feed into the comprehensive Humanitarian Aid evaluation currently being undertaken.