NEW ISSUES IN REFUGEE RESEARCH Working Paper No. 56 Evaluation of humanitarian assistance in emergency situations Issued on 2002 by Disaster Studies Rural Development, Sociology Group Wageningen University The Netherlands

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of humanitarian assistance have recently become a topic of academic, practical and political concern. Various factors have led to this increased interest, including a level of disenchantment with results, the lack of organisational and institutional learning, little documented improvement of operations over the years, the ever increasing complexity of emergency situations and their problematic impact on results...