Tearfund Pakistan Floods Response RTE Report

The main purpose of this RTE was to look at Tearfund's response to the Pakistan flood, both
operationally and through its local Partners. The emphasis was on immediate lesson-learning over impact evaluation or accountability, providing an opportunity within the programme cycle to assess the response and adjust both activities and future strategy as necessary.

Tearfund should be commended on commissioning this RTE early in the programme. In fact it may have been even more useful 2 or 3 weeks earlier, prior to Phase 2 proposals being written. However, the focus of the recommendations in this report are on how to help affected communities in the longer term not just to get back to how they were before, but to be in a better place than before, more resilient to future disasters.

This report was requested by and prepared with financial resources from Tearfund UK. The views expressed herein are those of the evaluators and do not represent any official view of Tearfund. All quotes in boxes throughout this report are direct quotes from interviewees, translated into English as necessary.