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Executive Summary:
This is the report of the Real Time Evaluation of the International Humanitarian Community’s
response to the 2010 Floods in Pakistan. The evaluation was commissioned by the Inter‐Agency
Standing Committee (IASC), funded by OCHA and undertaken by a team of four evaluators
between January and March 2011. The team visited Pakistan two times.
The first mission took place in January to undertake an extended field visit in three of the worst
affected Provinces to interview aid providers and aid recipients as well as to at federal level,
observe patterns of the response and collect evidence (a teleconference was organised with
representatives from Balochistan). An initial debriefing was held with the HCT to present
preliminary findings. Within two weeks a draft report was shared.
In mid‐February, during the second visit, three provincial and a national workshop were held
with key stakeholders involved in the humanitarian response to the floods. Findings, conclusions
and recommendations were initially presented by the team leader during the workshops. Then,
stakeholders jointly validated and prioritized recommendations and defined the organization(s)
responsible to implement them (by whom) and timelines (by when). The main changes in the
formulations resulted from group discussions. This process contributed to boost the ownership
of the evaluation recommendations and fostered real time learning among stakeholders
engaged. Once workshops ended the Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator agreed
that the HCT would draw an implementation plan of the recommendations outlined below.
Following the second visit to Pakistan, headquarter debriefings were held in with IASC
representatives Geneva and New York.
As this participatory and utilization focused approach is new to Inter Agency Real Time
Evaluations a lessons learned exercise on the process will be held in Geneva in mid April so that
in can be integrated in future IA RTEs.
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