Brussels, 2.10.2024

COM(2024) 427 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 2023






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 2023, DG ECHO completed the following strategic evaluations:

· Evaluation of DG ECHO´s response to the Venezuelan Regional Crisis , 2017-2021

· Evaluation of DG ECHO´s Partnership with UNHCR, 2017-2021

· Evaluation of Humanitarian Logistics in the European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid operations, 2018-2022

· Evaluation of the mobility package within the emergency support instrument re-activation 2020-2022

· Evaluation of DG ECHO's Partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 2018-2022

In January 2024, evaluations were in progress for the following areas:

·Comprehensive evaluation of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid, 2017-2022.

·Evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in Central Africa 2019-2023

·Evaluation of DG ECHO’s partnership with UNICEF 2019-2023