Evaluation of the European Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO) 2000-2005

This evaluation is the third major evaluation of DG ECHO since its foundation. The first evaluation covered humanitarian aid from 1991 to 1996, the second the period 1996 to 1998/99 and this evaluation covers the period 2000 to 2005.
This evaluation has reviewed: the follow-up given to the previous evaluation; the application of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee criteria of relevance efficiency effectiveness, impact, sustainability and connectedness; the application of the Maastricht Treaty’s criteria of coherence, complementarity and coordination (also called the 3Cs issue); and the actual position of DG ECHO at a time when it is facing a number of strategic and operational challenges.