Evaluation of the USAID/OFDA Ebola virus disease outbreak response in West Africa 2014-2016 : Objective 4, coordination of the response

Background: The West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak began in December, 2013 in southeastern Guinea. As the United States Government (USG) lead for the response, the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team on August 5, 2014, and established a corresponding Response Management Team, which operated until January 4, 2016. The team from International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) conducted an independent performance evaluation of OFDA’s EVD outbreak response in West Africa. The performance evaluation was guided by four complementary objectives relating to the overall effectiveness of the response, the effectiveness of different programmatic components, the relevance, and the coordination of OFDA’s response