An ALNAP workshop that took place in Geneva on September 6th 2011 entitled 'Harnessing the Power of Evaluation in Humanitarian Action.'
The aim of the workshop was to gather 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 at:
• Promoting an exchange on current evaluation practices and organisational dynamics that encroach on evaluation utilisation and affect learning from evaluation. • Building an understanding of which type of organisational dynamics and organisational changes may hamper or positively influence the impact of humanitarian evaluation. • Experimenting with a peer learning methodology that could be replicated and possibly adopted when building a Community of Practice around evaluation and organisational learning issues. • Discussing 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.