Guidance and procedural note on managing Real-time Evaluations Plus (RTE Plus)

Four humanitarian evaluations have so far piloted a variety of modified characteristics of this approach and learning through their implementation has shaped this guidance. These evaluations included the ‘Evaluation of the UNICEF Level 3 Response to the Cholera Epidemic in Yemen’ (published in June 2018); the ‘Evaluation of UNICEF’s response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh’ (published in November 2018); the ‘UNICEF South Sudan Level 3 Evaluation: Part 1 Child survival – WASH, health, nutrition and related issues’ (published in January 2019) and ‘Evaluation of UNICEF’s Level 3 Response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (published in June 2019).

This guidance note documents the knowledge generated and identified as part of this process to date. It serves as an internal reference for future humanitarian evaluations at UNICEF. Given that the learning process is still ongoing, the guidance note should be considered a living document; further revisions should and will be made to the current version. The note was primarily conceived for UNICEF’s evaluation managers and evaluands, as well as evaluators working on UNICEF’s humanitarian evaluations (some sections of this guidance note will be more relevant to particular audiences).