Brussels, 31.8.2023

COM(2023) 500 final

ANNEX

to the

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

Annual Report on the European Union´s humanitarian aid operations financed in 2022


Annex III: External assessment on humanitarian aid

Commission evaluation services are responsible for steering, coordinating, monitoring and reporting of the evaluation function. They produce timely, high-quality evaluation results to ensure evidence for informed decision-making and accountability. The evaluations can be geographic, thematic or focused on a specific partnership. In 2022, DG ECHO completed the following strategic evaluations:

· Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in Yemen and in Humanitarian Access, 2015-2020;

· Combined evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in the Horn of Africa (HoA) in the 2016-2020 period, and the European Commission's Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)’ partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);

·Evaluation of the Emergency Social Safety Net programme (ESSN-2, 2018-2020);

· Combined evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian response to sudden-onset disasters and of DG ECHO’s partnership with the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies (IFRC), 2016-2020;

·Combined evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in the Sahel and in the food assistance and nutrition sectors, 2016-2020;

·Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in disaster preparedness;

· Combined evaluation of DG ECHO’s humanitarian response to epidemics, and of DG ECHO’s partnership with the World Health Organization, 2017-2021.

In January 2023, evaluations were in progress for the following areas:

·Interim Evaluation of the implementation of Decision No 1313/2013/EU on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism, 2017-2022;

·Evaluation of humanitarian logistics in the European Commission's civil protection and humanitarian aid operations, 2018-2022, and of the Mobility Package within the Emergency Support Instrument re-activation, 2020-2022;

·Combined evaluation of the European Union’s response to the Venezuelan regional crisis, and of DG ECHO’s partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2017-2021.