WFP Algeria/Country Strategic Programme Evaluation (CSPE)
IRMA led the first fully remote evaluation by design: WFP/Algeria’s Country Strategic Programme Evaluation under Particip (January to October 2021), Anchored in World Food Programme’s Evaluation standards and processes, we managed a team of evaluators from more than 11,100 km away. As all standard methods (Systematic Literature Review, Key Informant Interviews, Focus Group Discussion, photo […]
Linking Early Warning Systems to Forecast Based Financing (IFRC)
Commissioned by IFRC, IRMA explored how best to link two key mechanisms thoroughly embedded in Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) practice: community early warning and forecast-based financing (FbF). We started by establishing a global foundation of documented Early Warning System (EWS) actions and learning (at all levels) and overlaid the existing approximately 25 countries with […]
Evaluation of the contribution to the implementation of SDGs by EU External Action
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 […]
Final Evaluation of Netherlands Red Cross Hurricane Irma Recovery Program in Sint Maarten
In September of 2017, Hurricane Irma impacted several Caribbean islands, Sint Maarten being one of the worst-affected with damages estimated to be $2.5 billion. The Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC) launched a response called “The Netherlands helps St. Maarten” and, following the delivery of emergency aid, shifted to Recovery in the areas of roof repair, (re)construction […]
Exploring the Evolving Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: A Meta-Evaluation
Since 2018, a growing number of evaluations have explored how organizations have adopted humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) or double nexus approaches. These evaluations delve into progress, barriers and ways to improve connectedness and complementarity of humanitarian, development and Peace sectors. Commissioned by ALNAP, Lezlie Moriniere (IRMA co-founding partner) worked with a wide team to conduct a meta-evaluation […]
Paris Saint Germain/Science Po: Launch of 20hr Module on Disaster Risk Management
IRMA has been invited to teach a 5th Year Masters students attending the St. Germain (France) Institut d’etudes politiques (IEP) Master Politiques de coopération internationale. This 20-hour course provided students with a solid introduction to climate/crisis and disaster risk management (RM). It was structured tightly around the 4 main yet overlapping spheres of RM (prevention / preparedness […]
Global roll-out of UNICEF Third-Party Monitoring Guidance Package
With humanitarian operating environments becoming progressively more complex and challenging, UNICEF has been expanding their use of third-party monitoring (TPM) in order to ensure and maintain systematic field monitoring. Outsourcing monitoring to third-parties, however, has come with some recognized challenges and in 2019/2020 UNICEF commissioned IRMA to explore the organization’s approach to and the quality and effectiveness of its […]
M&E for Protection Prevention in AELA
Photo credit: NRC The measurement and evaluation of the prevention of violence in Protection Programmes are challenging for many reasons. A relationship of trust is needed for communities to be willing to share information about issues affecting their safety, and even when trust existed, establishing a causal relationship between interventions and a reduction in violence […]
Producing an overview of humanitarian actions funded by SIDA
In 2016 and again in 2020, IRMA (via Lezlie Moriniere) was tasked via the SIDA HelpDesk (managed by Saferworld and GEG) to produce an overview of humanitarian actions funded by SIDA. This quantitative and qualitative mapping of 2018 trends gleaned systematically from the reporting of 26 partners (over 64 documents) and compared them to 2015. […]
IFRC/Better Programming Initiative (BPI)
In 2020, the IFRC commissioned IRMA to develop the BPI Training Programme in collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross. The purpose of the training is to support participants to navigate many evolving dynamics while carefully promoting conflict sensitive program management (CSPM). The core elements of BPI are: Community Engagement The original Do No Harm principle, […]
