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IA RTE of the humanitarian response to Pakistan’s 2010 Floods crisis
and tasks of the evaluation team, are presented as Annex I. Between January and February
2011, a team of four consultants working for DARA 13 , an independent organization specialized in
humanitarian evaluation, conducted this RTE. It is the fourth IA‐RTE and the second in Pakistan
that DARA carried out.
13. The evaluation commenced with a home based in‐depth documentation review. Upon
arrival, the team travelled directly into the field, following the river Indus from Karachi to
Peshawar visiting Sindh, Punjab and KPK Provinces to grasp operational response realities on the
ground. Balochistan could not be visited due primarily to security constraints as well as time
restrictions. Field visits were complemented by meetings with a range of stakeholders in
Islamabad.
14. An initial feedback session was organized in both Multan (Punjab) and Peshawar (KPK) at
the end of each of field visit, and an overall debriefing session was held at the Humanitarian
Country Team HCT at the end of the field mission to present initial findings and conclusions.
Workshops will be carried out in Pakistan in mid February both at provincial and federal level to
further validate the findings of the report and draw Specific, Measurable, Accountable,
Reasonable and Time bound (SMART) recommendations and draw a process action plan.
3.1 Structure of the report
15. This report is structured according to the different dimensions of the IA‐RTE Framework
as outlined in the ToR, namely context, needs assessments, funding, response, coordination,
connectedness and cross‐cutting issues. Each dimension is subdivided into a number of key
issues addressing the questions outlined in the ToR.
3.2 Methodology
16. The evaluation followed a deductive analysis based on a mixed methods approach for
data collection. Data collected has been entered into an evidence table organized according to
key issues outlined in the ToR 14 . The findings of the evaluation are based on:
� A desk review of key documents, web‐pages and other relevant publications –
references are outlined in the bibliography in Annex 8
� Semi‐structured individual interviews (interview guide for semi structured interviews ‐
Annex 5) and group interviews with some 1,107 key stakeholders of which 421 were
carried out with representatives from the UN agencies and programmes, the Red Cross
Movement, international and national non‐governmental organizations (INGOs),
government at the central and local level, the military and donors. Annex 4 outlines the
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The team consisted of two international consultants (Riccardo Polastro and Nicolai Steen) and two national
consultants (Farwa Zafar and Aatika Nagrah). See bio’s in annex 9.
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The evidence table contained 2700 pieces of evidence gathered from the desk review, interviews and observations.
Riccardo Polastro, Aatika Nagrah, Nicolai Steen and Farwa Zafar
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