Evaluation experience
As well as continuing to lead major evaluation, John has continued with developing tools and approaches to conduct rigorous evaluations in complex environments. In 2008, John rewrote the ALNAP Real Time Evaluation Guide and is currently working on a broader guide on humanitarian evaluation.
2007: Team Leader for evaluation of the Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System for Norad via Channel Research with field work in Kenya, South Sudan, and Pakistan. Report: Evaluation of the Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System (NOREPS). Norad, Oslo, 2008 (with Turid Laegreid, Marit Sørvald, Emery Brusset, and Svein Jørgensen). ISBN 9788275482691
2007: Team leader for the evaluation of ECHO's response to the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake via Channel Research. Report: Evaluation of DG ECHO's Actions in response to the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005. Brussels: ECHO, 2007 (with Sara Nam).
2007: Team leader for the IASC's pilot real-time evaluation of the humanitarian clusters response to floods in Mozambique. Report: Inter-agency real-time evaluation of the response to the February 2007 floods and cyclone in Mozambique. Geneva: Inter-agency Standing Committee, 2007, (with C Gonçalves, D Martyris, R Polastro, and M Sikumba-Dils).
You can find panoramas of two IDP camps in the Zambezi Valley where we did fieldwork here.
2007: Quality assurance on NORAD's evaluation of the use of former military trucks for humanitarian operations via Channel Research. Report: Evaluation of the Effects of Using M-621 Military Cargo Trucks in Humanitarian Transport Operations: Evaluation Report 3/2007. Oslo: Norad, 2005. ISBN: 9788275482479. (with Björn Ternström as team leader and Cécile Collin, Turid Laegreid, Nkandu Luo, Jacqueline Nyokabi Muchori, Aksel Steen Nilsen, Virenza Alfath Sasmitawidjaja, and Andreas Wohlert as team members).
2006: Team leader for evaluation of WFP's Darfur operations via Channel Research. Report:
Full Report of the Evaluation of EMOP 10339.0/1: Assistance to populations affected by conflict in greater Darfur, West Sudan. Rome: World Food Programme, 2007. (with A Oman, AJ Abdullah Fadel, and S Babiker, S. A.). You can see a panorama of one of the camps where we did fieldwork here.
2006: Completing work as the Evaluation Advisor and Coordinator for the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition included co-authoring the synthesis report and related journal article (one of the top ten downloaded Disasters articles in 2008) as well an expanded summary of the synthesis report.
