Evaluation of DEC Ebola Response Programme Phases 1 & 2

The Ebola virus, which struck Sierra Leone in 2014, caught the country unprepared to resist and prevent the spread of the dreadful disease. The disease killed many people, dislocating families and decimating large swath of communities in Sierra Leone. In October 2014, CAFOD, with funding from the DEC, partnered with Caritas and Trocaire (Phase 1 and 2) and Street Child in Phase 2 to intervene to help curb the speed with which the disease was consuming Sierra Leone.

The purpose of the evaluation was to: assess the extent to which the programme objectives were achieved; facilitate and distil self-analysis of overarching lessons learned; proffer recommendations that will influence future interventions of CAFOD and its partners in Sierra Leone as well as other countries; and serve as a guide for future humanitarian strategy.