Independent Evaluation of Expenditure of DEC India Cyclone Appeal Funds - Volumes 1 & 2

This is an independent evaluation of the overall impact of the £5 million spent by these 11 DEC members on relief and rehabilitation. The evaluation team started work in March and paid an initial visit to Orissa to finalise the evaluation team and meet DEC agencies and their local partners in April. There were further meetings with most DEC agencies in the UK and Ireland in June, and most of the field work was carried out in July/August. This time scale has meant that though much of the relief effort was concluded long before the evaluation team arrived, the locally recruited consultants in particular were able to observe and discuss DEC agencies’ rehabilitation activities over a 4-month period (April- August).