1. The evaluation is concerned with the collective effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) to respond to the emergency in the Central African Republic (CAR), from the declaration of an L3 emergency on 11 December 2013 until mid-2015, as envisaged through the 2014 Strategic Response Plan and 2015 Humanitarian Response Plan. 2. This inception report outlines preparations for the Inter-Agency humanitarian evaluation (IAHE) of the humanitarian response to CAR’s emergency. It includes a description of the emergency context (Section 1), the inter-agency background (Section 2), user-focused objectives (Section 3), a stakeholder analysis (Section 4), an analytical framework (Section 5), proposed methods (Section 6), key deliverables (Section 7), and a proposed work plan (Section 8).