Evaluation of IRC’s Humanitarian Programme 2014–2016

This evaluation provided information for Sida in terms of developing a further multi-year agreement with IRC for the period of2018–2020. Given that this is the third HFA between Sida and IRC, it is also meant to provide recommendations on how the IRC/Sidacollaboration could be further strengthened. In this broader sense, the evaluation explored the comparative advantage that IRCprovides in terms of helping Sida to realise its humanitarian strategy.The evaluation recommends among others that Sida continue to collaborate with IRC through the multi-annual arrangementsthrough the four operational components of the HFA and incorporate both a Programme & Project Approach to funding of the nextmulti-year HFA as well as seek to more proactively capitalise on the synergies with IRC by engaging in dialogue with a wider multidisciplinaryteam of stakeholders. It also recommends IRC to among others take the lead and testing the boundaries of theircollaboration with Sida and continue to improve the efforts to spotlight critical humanitarian crises and to improve the efforts totackle these most difficult operating contexts to both make an impact and to develop the evidence-basis for influencing how thesecontexts are addressed.