Evaluations of Oxfam International's tsunami response
The tsunami response is the largest operation Oxfam International has ever mounted. As of March 2007, three wide-ranging evaluations have been carried out of Oxfam International tsunami-related programs, in Aceh, Sri Lanka and South India. These evaluations have had a major impact, as they have resulted in significant changes and improvements to how Oxfam is implementing its programs.
- To ensure that programs are making progress in accordance with objectives.
- To allow programs to be adapted to take account of realities on the ground.
- To learn from what it has done well and where performance could have been better and apply these lessons not only to the tsunami response, but to other Oxfam and partner activities.
- To be more accountable to its various stakeholders - including the people its response aims to benefit - for its actions and the resources it manages.
To address this last point, Oxfam has committed itself to making public the summaries and key findings of evaluations carried out as part of its tsunami response.
Three wide-ranging evaluations have been carried out of Oxfam International tsunami-related programs, in Aceh, Sri Lanka and South India. These evaluations have had a major impact, as they have resulted in significant changes and improvements to how Oxfam is implementing its programs. Summaries of these evaluations are linked below.
In addition to these overarching evaluations, thematic evaluations are also planned. So far an evaluation of accountability to beneficiaries in South India has been completed.
Finally, Oxfam commissioned an external review, by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, of the management structures of the Oxfam International Tsunami Fund.
Oxfam International Tsunami Fund is a limited company registered in England and Wales at Companies House number 5401107 and a registered charity number 1108700. The registered office is Suite 20, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DL.
