Explore Together - Innovative Data Collection for Humanitarian Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era

The Humanitarian Evaluation Interest Group is pleased to invite you to our UNEG Evaluation Practice Exchange (EPE) session entitled “Explore Together - Innovative Data Collection for Humanitarian Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era” on Thursday 5th November from 9am to 10:30am NY time/ 15pm to 16:30pm CET.

During the session, participants will have an opportunity to exchange their experiences and explore innovative data collection methods for evaluations in humanitarian environments, which are double-burdened by COVID-19 related preventive measures and restrictions.

The session will consist of two-parts: a remote panel presentation followed by an interactive discussion among the participants.

Panel Presentation and Plenary questions:

In the first part of the session, presentations will provide an overview of the following data collection methods and their use in humanitarian contexts. At the end of the presentation, the floor will be open for questions and reflections.

• Social Listening by Massimiliano Sani and Silvia Sommariva
• Citizen-Generated Data by Rebecca Firth
• Big data by Michael Bamberger

Interactive discussion

After the presentations, the participants will be invited to one of the break-out rooms to share their experience and to discuss insights on the following themes based on the methods presented:

• • What are the practical implications for use in different humanitarian evaluation contexts?
  • What is the medium-term/long-term feasibility of adapting these methods for practical use in humanitarian evaluation?
  • Are there challenges and ethical issues around the use of those methods for humanitarian evaluations? Is so, what are they?