Workshop summary: Real-time Evaluations

RTEs are meant to provide quick and practical evaluative feedback to country teams and other levels of management during early stages of emergency responses. In practice, experiences have been rather diverse in terms of timing / duration, purpose, focus, governance, implementation modalities, use / usefulness and management response and follow-up. But there seems to be agreement in the humanitarian community that we should develop a more systematic approach to evaluation of humanitarian action and more clearly define the possible role and contribution of RTE. The workshop will explore options for RTE with special emphasis on joint evaluations and possibly result in a discussion forum that will further develop the RTE approach.