Evaluation of Oxfam's 2017 Drought Response in Ethiopia

This report summarises the findings from the End of Programme Evaluation of Oxfam’s Drought Response Programme in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The Oxfam Drought Response program evaluation was intended to assess and document the overall difference that the humanitarian response programme had on mitigating the effects of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) induced drought in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. In response to the 2016/2017 drought, Oxfam undertook a multi-sectoral humanitarian response in the Somali region where they reached a total of 878,443 people as of January 2018 with gender-focused activities in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), emergency food security and vulnerable livelihoods (EFSVL), and protection. To better understand the response, Oxfam commissioned an external evaluation to assess the overall relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability and accountability of the 2017 drought response programme in Ethiopia