Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Final Report

This report presents evaluation findings on the relevance, effectiveness, impact and value for money of the programme

Abstract

The Department for International Development (DFID) invested £54.6 million into a humanitarian innovation and evidence programme which began in 2013 for initially 5 years and now runs to 2022.

This report presents evaluation findings on its relevance, effectiveness, impact and value for money. The Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) was designed to have an impact on humanitarian actors’ capacity to deliver improved response and resilience programmes that are effective at supporting vulnerable people. It works towards 3 specific outcomes:

  1. International donors, including DFID, develop funding instruments and frameworks for investment into evidence, innovation, and its applications.

  2. Humanitarian actors change skills, behaviours, relationships, cultures and systems to promote the regular integration of evidence into humanitarian and disaster risk management (DRM) interventions.

  3. Policy and practice actors invest in social, economic and political innovations that focus on benefits for poor people in humanitarian crises.

This summative evaluation conducted by Itad, the fourth report in a 5-year evaluation of HIEP that started in 2013, aims to provide both an independent assessment of progress and also to produce learning and recommendations on humanitarian evidence and innovation for DFID and the sector.

This record provides links to the full report with all 7 appendices (333 pp) as well as to individual pdfs for the main report + summary (108 pp), appendices alone (225 pp), and executive summary (9 pp)

This 2014 report is also available: Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Formative Phase Report and this report from 2016: Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Evaluation Phase 1

Citation

ITAD. (2018) Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Final Report . ITAD, Hove, UK

Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Full Report

Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Executive Summary

Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Final Report without annexes

Evaluation of the Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP): Summative Phase 2: Annexes

Published 30 June 2019