Evaluation of UNICEF's response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh

This evaluation, which was commissioned and managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office in New York, was conducted between March and October 2018 by five independent consultants with expertise in all programme areas under assessment, and with the support and direct involvement of staff from the Evaluation Office. Its primary purpose was to generate lessons to improve the ongoing response. The secondary purposes were to strengthen UNICEF’s accountability and to assist UNICEF and the broader international humanitarian community to better understand how to respond in situations of rapid mass and forced displacement and settlement. The team used Real-Time Evaluation Plus, a new approach that the Evaluation Office is developing that combines elements of retrospective and formative evaluations with those of a real-time evaluation in order to deliver well-evidenced findings and conclusions in a short timeframe. The primary audience is UNICEF staff at headquarters, regional, country and field office levels, and this report may also be of use to the Government of Bangladesh, donor governments, other United Nations agencies and international, national and local partners.