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Making the results of evaluation findings accessible to communities: Why it frequently fails and what to do about it

Humanitarian Horizons initiative: Power, people and local leadership

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This paper presents the findings of research into the current practices used by humanitarians and monitoring and evaluation practitioners to make the results of M&E processes accessible to affected communities

Key findings

Despite the strong recognition of the humanitarian imperative and ethical responsibility to ensure that communities access, and benefit from, M&E knowledge, making evaluation findings accessible to communities is hard. Our research uncovered a number of barriers that exist which have made this practice less common including resourcing constraints, lack of prioritisation and logistical barriers.

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