An ALNAP workshop that took place in Washington, DC on the 21st of October 2011 entitled "Harnessing the Power of Evaluation in Humanitarian Action"
The aim of the workshop was to gather together a small number of peers to discuss how to improve the relevance, use and impact of humanitarian evaluation, and to identify concrete actions that might lead to improvement. In particular, the workshop aimed to: • Promote an exchange on current evaluation practices and organisational dynamics that encroach on evaluation utilisation and affect learning from evaluation. • Build an understanding of which type of organisational dynamics and organisational changes may hamper or positively influence the impact of humanitarian evaluation. • Experiment with a peer learning methodology that could be replicated and possibly adopted when building a Community of Practice around evaluation and organisational learning issues. • Discuss the evaluation capacities framework and the self-assessment tool, looking at ways to refine their formulation, and to promote their use in future debates on evaluation capacities issues.