German Humanitarian Aid Abroad

The evaluation’s main purpose was to gather insights to help the two ministries govern these fields of activity. The following issues in particular were to be considered in the evaluation:

1. relevance and results of the interventions, to be assessed by means of country studies;
2. interface management between AA and BMZ (quality of planning at headquarters and also management in the field, particularly with regard to internal coherence);
3. coordination and complementarity with the interventions of other donors, especially the EU and UN organisations;
4. appropriateness of the financing channels (international as opposed to national organisations, taking into account local implementation capacities); and
5. linking up emergency relief, emergency and transitional aid, reconstruction and development cooperation in line with the LRRD approach (Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development).