Strategic Global Evaluation of WFP’s policies for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Photo credit: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud IRMA partners Marilise Turnbull (Team Leader) and Lezlie Moriniere (Senior Evaluator) conducted a strategic evaluation the 2011 WFP policy on disaster risk reduction and management and the 2017 climate change policy. The evaluation assessed the quality and results of both policies, along with the factors that enabled and hindered those […]
Evaluation of Disaster READY for Oxfam Australia
Photo credit : Glen Pakoa/Oxfam in Vanuatu Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are among the most vulnerable countries in the world to natural-hazard related disasters and climate change. The UN World Risk Index, which measures exposure to natural hazards and the capacity to cope with these events across 171 countries, places SIDS at the top […]
Understanding Health and Fragility from a Systems Perspective
Fragile, conflict affected situations or ‘fragile settings’ have among the weakest health systems and worst health indicators in the world. Despite this recognition, however, notable gaps in research and tools linking health and fragility remain. For actors working to improve health conditions in fragile settings, the absence of an appropriate conceptualization of fragility cast through a health […]
Evaluation of EU’s Contribution to Partner Countries’ Progress on the SDGs (2016-2021)
In 2016, the European Commission (EC) committed themselves to integrating the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development into their policy across all sectors. As such, the EC has aimed to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deeply into their external action efforts and policy making. The SDGs are a set of 17 goals aimed […]
Deepening understanding of Fragility and Health: Context and Fragility Assessments
Since 2022, IRMA has been supporting Momentum Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR)—a USAID-funded health development project focused on fragile and conflict-affected contexts—to strengthen its understanding of fragility, the implications for health and how to operationalize this knowledge in their health resilience programming. IRMA developed the Context and Fragility Assessment (CFA) Guidance for MIHR in 2023, In […]
Technical assistance to address environmentally induced displacement in EC external cooperation
Climate change has become an increasingly important driver of human mobility. Those displaced due to environmental or climate factors were not legally represented in the Refugee Convention, and no internationally agreed terminology captured their status. This project mapped how the European Union and partners addressed environment-displacement linkages to establish a more insightful organizational position as […]
Evaluation of Madagascar WFP Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023
In 2023, IRMA LLC, commissioned by Particip, conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the World Food Programme’s strategy in Madagascar. This large-scale evaluation of the 2019-2023 Country Strategic Plan (CSP) aimed to gather evidence for accountability and learning, and has already been used to inform the next CSP. Thanks to direct observations of […]
Evaluation of Disaster Preparedness in EU Humanitarian Action (DG ECHO)
Commissioned by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), IRMA has led (under Particip GmbH) an independent strategic and global evaluation of EU contributions to disaster preparedness in humanitarian action from 2015 to 2020. The evaluation was guided by nine research questions aligned to a retrofitted Preparedness Theory of Change […]
Assessment of the effectiveness and quality of BRC’s COVID-19 global response (Year 1)
Globally, as of March 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has directly claimed nearly three million lives and continues to put lives, health, education, livelihoods, peace and almost every aspect of the society at risk. Over 14 months since the pandemic was declared, governments, health systems, humanitarian organizations and communities are still struggling to save lives and […]
COVID-19 socio-economic impacts & disaster risk governance in 7 Western Sahel & Lake Chad countries
Led by Harvard’s Data Pop Alliance (DPA), this study in 7 countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal) is commissioned by UNDP through the Sahel Resilience Project and carried out under the leadership of ECOWAS. Research started in February 2021 with final deliverables served by end October. IRMA’s role is focused on […]
