Serving as Adjunct Faculty for the Andrew’s University’s International Development Program Masters
Since 2002, IRMA’s Lezlie Moriniere has served as Adjunct Faculty for the Andrew’s University’s International Development Program Masters (IDP). As a core course of the IDP, Lezlie teaches developmental and humanitarian Needs Assessment in English and French. Intensive courses have been dispensed to hundreds of developing country nationals in Italy, Kenya, Togo, Ghana, South Sudan, South […]
UNICEF Third Party Monitoring
Increasingly complex operating environments and diminishing resources present an array of challenges for humanitarian agencies in the delivery of timely, predictable and quality humanitarian assistance to crisis-affected populations; not least among these is how to ensure direct and systematic programme monitoring for both compliance and learning. This has led many agencies to increasingly rely on […]
UNDP Global Proposals
IRMA was asked by UNDP’s Disaster and Climate Risk Governance team (in the Global Policy Network/BPPS and Crisis Bureau) to contribute to proposals required to enhance their global DRR service delivery. Under this contract, IRMA provided critical inputs to DG ECHO for the Intra-ACP Action Fiche for resource mobilization under the 11th EDF (involving actions […]
Road Map to Community Resilience for the IFRC
In 2016, IFRC commissioned IRMA to produce operational guidance on how to strengthen the resilience of the communities where it works. The guidance – called Road Map to Community Resilience (available in multiple languages)– takes National Societies through a step by step process to engage with communities and support them to carry out their own risk assessments and produce […]
Training on ‘Resilience for Systems’ for GOAL
GOAL uses an approach called ‘Resilience for Systems’ or R4S to understand why systems that poor communities depend on, such as local fishing industries and urban markets for agricultural produce, are vulnerable to shocks and stresses. This knowledge enables GOAL and its partners to work with those communities and relevant actors to strengthen the systems […]
Climate Risk Assessment of Dominican Republic
Climate change poses huge challenges for Dominican Republic, an island that regularly experiences hurricanes, already suffers from stress on water resources, and whose main industry is tourism. IRMA was approached by DAI to guide a climate risk assessment focusing on the island’s coastal areas. For this, IRMA used the participatory GIZ methodology and worked closely […]
Evaluation of FCDO’s Centre for Disaster Protection Programme
IRMA serves as Programme Evaluation Lead (PEL) for a multi-cycle evaluation of the UK Prosperity Fund’s Centre for Disaster Protection Programme composed of two implementing partners: the Centre and the World Bank’s Disaster Protection Programme. The evaluation team focuses on producing knowledge and compiling learning spearheaded by the programme since 2018. The Centre, based in the City of London, has grown to be widely appreciated by country and humanitarian actors looking to protect their […]
Meta-evaluation of American Red Cross Community Preparedness Programming
The American Red Cross engaged IRMA to carry out a meta-evaluation of its disaster preparedness portfolio, to test its theory of change for ‘disaster ready communities’. In parallel, it asked IRMA to review similar programming by its peer organisations, to understand how its approach compared with others. The two-pronged study generated learning about successful combinations […]
Evaluation of UNICEF Ecuador’s cash response to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis
Between 2016 and November 2019, more than 4.6 million men, women, and children have left Venezuela. The humanitarian and economic and crisis into which the country continues to sink has driven them to seek a better life in neighbouring countries and beyond. UNICEF Ecuador responded to the needs of children, young people and their families […]
Learning Review on the CAMEALEON Third Party Monitoring Model in Lebanon
IRMA undertook a learning review for CAMEALEON, an NGO-led network that conducts independent monitoring, research and analysis of WFP’s multi-purpose cash intervention in Lebanon. The review also contributed to wider sectoral learning on third party monitoring of cash programmes by identifying the replicable aspects of the CAMEALEON model. IRMA’s team was Floor Grootenhuis, Marilise Turnbull […]
