IASC Weekly meeting (GVA) - IA-RTE Haiti: 20 month after
Geneva
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Meeting Documents
1. Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation of the response to the Haiti Earthquake, 20 months after
Silvia Hidalgo, Evaluation Team Leader, will brief on the second phase of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation of the response to the Earthquake in Haiti 20 months after the disaster, focusing on transition from relief to recovery and longer term development.
Background
The earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 registering 7.0 on the Richter scale devastated Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas. In view of the scale of the disaster and the subsequent response, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) launched an Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA RTE) to inform decision makers at country and headquarters levels, draw lessons and allow corrections to be made where necessary. The Haiti IA RTE included a first phase on the initial response, completed in May 2010. This second phase has sought to: Analyse and provide lessons for the ongoing response, with a particular focus on coordination between different actors involved; Examine options for linking humanitarian response structures with longer-term and/or government-established mechanisms; and Review the extent to which the findings and recommendations from the first phase of the Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation have informed the evolving humanitarian response in Haiti. The humanitarian response to the initial catastrophe has developed in context of multiple crises, including the cholera epidemic, hurricanes, and political and security challenges. Transition to recovery has been strong on the agenda as a result of growing desire to move away from humanitarian response and relief and offer durable solutions to existing needs amidst increasing funding constraints. The presentation will summarise the main achievements, challenges and recommendations arising from the evaluation.
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