Evaluation of the Common Humanitarian Fund Synthesis Report

This document is a summary of the key findings and recommendations of the CHF
evaluation. The evaluation was commissioned by OCHA in order to gain an external
perspective on the impact, effectiveness, relevance, and efficiency of the CHF. A
team of seven consultants from Channel Research undertook the evaluation and the
major focus of the evaluation was on three country studies undertaken in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR), and Sudan,
together with a related analysis of documents and funding flows. The aim of this
Synthesis Report is to summarize the key findings, conclusions and
recommendations from the country reports. It is very much a Synthesis Report, and
the country reports contain the details of the specific context and issues of each
country.