ACF International’s Emergency Response to the Pakistan Floods in August 2010

This evaluation assesses ACF's response to the large-scale floods that swept across Pakistan between late-July and September 2010. Six main themes were outline in the ToR, which provided the basis for the evaluation: (i) needs assessment and strategy development, (ii) communications and coordination, (iii) human resources, (iv) logistics, (v) administration and finance, (vi) monitoring and evaluation. The period under evaluation starts from the onset of the floods in late-July until the end of January 2011.

With 11-months having passed since the floods, rather than focus on the operational programme the evaluation focused instead on strategic decision-making and direction, programme support and internal coordination with the aim of contributing to internal organisational learning. While the ToR spoke of an evaluation of the response, in the absence of field work the process was more akin to a management review and this report reflects this.