Evaluation experience 2001-2005
During these five years, John consolidated his evaluation experience and led several large evaluations, including the Disasters Emergency Committee evaluation of the Mozambique Floods in 2000 and of the 2002 Southern African drought response. The culmination of this period was the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition's selection of John to be their evaluation advisor and coordinator for the large multi agency evaluation of the Tsunami Response.
2005: Evaluation Advisor and Coordinator for the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) with visits to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. This involved coordinating the five thematic studies, some of which themselves has several sub-studies. 2005 concluded with the production of the TEC's initial findings report. Tsunami Evaluation Coalition: Initial Findings. London: Tsunami Evaluation Coalition, 2005. ISBN 9788776674118
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2005: Study of the use of Civil Protection assets for humanitarian response for the Irish Government.
2005: Monitor for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Tsunami Appeal in Indonesia.
2005: Strategic Review of the Danish Refugee Council's programme in the North Caucasus.
2004: Team leader for multi-donor Afghanistan aid-flows mapping exercise for Danida. Report: Aid Flows to Afghanistan: A study of Aid Flows from Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Ireland to Afghanistan from January 2001 to June 2004 inclusive. Copenhagen: Danida, 2004. (with Rie Andersen).
2004: Team leader for review of Irish Government aid to Afghanistan. Report: Public Expenditure Review of Support to Afghanistan 2000 to 2003. Dublin: Development Cooperation Ireland, 2004.
2004: Evaluation of DRC's Danida-funded programme in Sri Lanka, including provision of sustainable services.
2004: Reviewing security planning for Mercy Corps with assessment visits to Azerbaijan and Pakistan.
2004: Paper on impact of September 11th on aid for ActionAid. Report: The impact of the war on terror on aid flows. London: ActionAid, 2004.
2004: Preparing synthesis study on IDPs for ECHO based on evaluations for Afghanistan, Angola, and Sudan. Report: Synthesis of findings on ECHO's Policy of treating affected populations without regards to preconceived categories, specifically IDPs, Refugees and Returnees and Local Population, based on reviews in Sudan, Angola and Afghanistan. Brussels: Channel Research, 2004.
2003: Evaluation of Danida support to IDPs in Angola. Report: Danish Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Angola 1999-2003. Copenhagen, Danida, 2004. ISBN 9878779649866
2003: Team Leader for evaluation of DEC Southern Africa Crisis Appeal in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. Report: A Stitch in Time? Independent Evaluation of the Disaster Emergency Committee's Southern Africa Crisis Appeal July 2002 to June 2003. London: Disasters Emergency Committee 2004. (with Jacobs, A., McEwan, M., Ntata, P. & M. Buchanan-Smith).
2002: Evaluation of CARE International's response to the Afghan crisis.
Images from the CARE evaluation.
Meeting with a village council (Shura) in a village to the North of Kabul to review CARE's support (photo: Jock Baker).
This boy was working on a CARE road repair project in Kabul to support his widowed mother.
2002: Reviewing Development Workshop's DFID-funded Sustainable Community Services Project in Angola.
2002: Reviewing earthquake risk mitigation projects in Nepal for USAID.
2002: Reviewing security in Ache and Ternate, Indonesia for IRC.
2001: Team leader for extensive DEC evaluation of €50M of relief for the Mozambique Floods. Report: Independent Evaluation of DEC Mozambique Floods Appeal Funds March 2000 - December 2000 London: Disasters Emergency Committee, 2001. (with Sylvester, K., Fidalgo, L., Hallam, A. & N. Taimo)