Overview of Current Work-plan Activities

17th Biannual Meeting at The Hague

Financial and Funding Update

1. Year 2004-05 Fully funded 27 Full Member funders Carry over funds, due mainly to savings made

on non-recruitment of one full time staff member

2. Year 2005-06 27 funding requests sent out in April

3. TEC funding Funds required now

1. New ALNAP Bulletin every two months

2. Steering Committee minutes available earlier

3. Findings from RHA tour by John Mitchell and Tony Beck

Communications

Findings from RHA: 2005 tour

CIDA, Multilateral Programs Branch, Ottawa (TB)

DfID Regional Office, New Delhi (TB)

International Development Evaluations Association (IDEAS) 1st Biennial Conference on ‘Evaluation for Development – Beyond Aid’ (TB)

ITDG South Asia, Sri Lanka (TB)

OCHA/UNICEF, New York (TB)

UNDP Country Team (UNCT) plus heads of the World Bank, IMF, ADB etc., Sri LankaFocus on the Implications of the Recent Findings on Relief and Recovery for the Tsunami Response (TB)

Instituto de Estidius sobre Conflict y Accion Humanitaria (IECAH) “Humanitarian Action, at the Crossroads. Promoting Proposals to Strengthen Action in the 21st Century” (JM)

UN Evaluation Group Annual Conference, hosted by FAO (JM)

Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University (JM)

Benfield Hazard Research Centre, IPAR Seminar, University College London, Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management (JM)

Africa Evaluation Society 3rd Annual Conference (Sarah Swords)

Please ask if your organisation(s) would like a presentation.

Findings from RHA: 2005 tour, cont’d..

ALNAP Guide to Applying DAC Criteria When Evaluating Humanitarian Action

(title to be confirmed) by Tony Beck

1. Advisory Group: Anne Bay Paludan, John Borton, Margie Buchanan Smith, Alistair Hallam, Astri Suhrke, Samuel Tadesse, John Telford and Peter Wiles.

2. Pilot version:

piloted by ECHO team in Sri Lanka, October 2004

3. Publication scheduled for end of this year

ALNAP Guide to Protection in Humanitarian Action

by Hugo Slim and Andrew Bonwick

1. Pilot version

1500 copies printed

piloted by IRC and DRC (also used for training)

Distributed in many field offices

Most popular download on ALNAP website

2. Consultative process

a) Advisory Group:

Alain Aeschlimann, ICRCNadya Kebir Raoloson, ICRCMihir Bhatt, DMIJames Darcy, HPGPeter Giesen, MSFPeter Klanso, DRCKate Alley, UNICEFAsmita Naik, IndependentGeeta Narayan, UNICEFSarah Wikenczy, IRCKamela Usmani, SCFShahrzad Tadjbakhsh, UNHCHRMark Vincent IDD, OCHAKathrin Starup, DRC

b) Written comments received from:

Bjorn Petterson IDD, OCHANicoletta Pergolizzi, ECHOErmino Sacco, FAOChristophe Beau, Global IDP ProjectRomain Sirois, WFPNicholas Crawford, WFPKarin Landgren, UNICEFDiane Paul, IndependentPaul Bonard, ICRCBrian PhillipsEd Shenkenberg, ICVADanielle CoquoqWayne MacDondald, IndependentSimon Lawry White, UNICEFAnita Menghetti, USAID

…many more verbal comments

c) Stocktaking Meeting on Protection (ICVA/InterAction and Washington (50 participants)

First Edition Due for publication Autumn 2005

Study on Consultation and Participation in Humanitarian Action

Outputs to date: 6 Country monographs (Sri Lanka, Angola,

Columbia, Afghanistan, Democratic republic of Congo and Guinea)

Pilot edition of Practitioners Handbook

Current status of project: Management back in ALNAP Secretariat Recruitment process to begin for editor/specialist to

assist with first edition of Practitioners Handbook Practitioners Handbook and Companion Book due

for publication end of 2005

Review of Humanitarian Action in 2004

Chapter 1 John Mitchell

Chapter 2Capacity Building - Ian Christoplos (main author) (AG – Vendela Fortune, Sigurd Endresen, Jock Baker and Jonathan Potter)

Chapter 3Evaluation Synthesis, focus on Darfur - Larry Minear (AG Ian Christoplos, Bronagh Carr, Paul Harvey)

Chapter 4Meta-evaluation - Peter Wiles, Christian Bugnion, John Lakeman. (AG Simon Lawry-White, Peter Giesen, John Telford)

Experiences from past years of RHA

Meta evaluation – methodological challenges; but helping to improve quality of evaluation

Evaluation Synthesis – methodological challenges; but valued as proxy or humanitarian performance

Chapter 2 – has utility but may not be the most effective format

Working Group Modela) Study on Consultation and Participation of Affected Communities in Humanitarian Action

Key Learning point: Major projects of this nature require dedicated time and adequate resources.

b) The Use of Research Methods in Humanitarian Contexts

Key Learning Point: Team leaders are vital to sustainability.

c) Field Level Support Initiatives (FLSI)

Key Learning Point: Not realistic to expect people/organisations with competing priorities to deliver. Need clear sense of shared expectations and ownership.