Evaluability Assessment of a proposed evaluation of humanitarian interventions in South and Central Somalia: Commissioned by the IASC for Somalia: Overall Report

This report briefly sets out the evaluability assessment conducted in November 2009 for the IASC in Somalia. The main outputs from this work were a revised terms of reference and a budget. This report takes the form of an annotated commentary on the terms of reference, explains what the consultant found, and why the consultant recommends particular approaches in the terms of reference. While there was general agreement on the need for an evaluation, there were numerous questions about the objective of the evaluation, the scope (geographical, sectoral, and agency), the potential methods, and the outputs. This evaluability assessment was commissioned to try and answer some of these questions, including the very basic one: "How can you conduct an evaluation when even the simplest monitoring is very difficult?".