DEC 2009 Disasters Appeal for Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam: Validation Report

This independent validation report was commissioned by the DEC Secretariat to review systems and performance against the objectives of the appeal, and in particular whether programmes were conducted in accordance with prevailing standards for the humanitarian sector. It is a desk review by an independent consulting company specializing in the humanitarian sector, drawing mainly on:

• A DEC ‘monitoring mission’
• Member Agency periodic submissions to the DEC (Phases 1 and 2 progress reports)
• External evaluations (three on Ketsana, two on the Padang quake) conducted by Member Agencies
• A DEC lessons-learned summary covering all agencies.

The report comments on the major challenges faced by agencies and summarizes learning and action, and comments on the existing evaluations and the RTE.