OCHA Biennial Evaluation Report 2011-2012

This is the second Biennial Evaluation Report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The report fulfils a key requirement of OCHA’s 2010-2013 Evaluation Policy and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the UN system. It presents an overview of the status and activities of OCHA’s evaluation function and a summary of main evaluation findings.

The main objective is to present highlights from OCHA’s evaluation work in 2011 and 2012.

The report is structured as follows: Section II provides an overview of OCHA’s evaluation system; section III presents highlights, key findings and lessons synthesized from all OCHA evaluations in 2011 and 2012; section IV provides more detailed findings from OCHA’s 2011 and 2012 internal evaluations; section V presents details on some of the follow-up to previous evaluations; section VI discusses OCHA’s role in building partnerships for the evaluation of humanitarian action; and section VII provides a brief outlook of the evaluation function for 2013 and 2014.