COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition

The COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition is an independent, collaborative initiative that brings together evaluation units from countries, multilateral institutions, and United Nations organisations. It provides credible evidence to inform international development and humanitarian responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries.

The Coalition evaluates the non-clinical dimensions of the pandemic response -including direct health and socio-economic impacts and recovery efforts- guided by a shared evaluation framework that emphasises coherence, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.

By co-ordinating evaluations and synthesising work led by its members, the Coalition fosters learning across agencies, reduces duplication of effort, and improves the quality, speed, and accessibility of findings. This collective approach helped to enhance coherence across national and multilateral responses and ensure that evidence is more impactful, actionable, and relevant to improve preparedness for future global crises.

The Coalition’s work is guided by a shared vision to:

• inform policymakers and implementers to improve responses and recovery efforts;

• generate evidence-based lessons and good practices for future global crises;

• support public accountability and transparency among development partners; and 

• deliver real-time evaluations and longer-term ex-post analyses.

The Coalition has three main areas of work.

1. Amplify evidence by disseminating evaluations and rapidly synthesising evidence into short policy briefs to feed into decision making. 

2. Co-ordinate evaluations by sharing evaluation plans, identifiying gaps and supportng capacity development to strengthen evaluations. 

3. Develop a common framework to work together to evaluate around a common set of questions.  

Using this shared evaluation framework, the Coalition assesses key dimensions of the international crisis response, including support to respond to the direct health impacts and the broader socio-economic effects of COVID-19

Evaluations assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of international development and humanitarian co-operation provided to developing countries. 

The evaluation of Burkina Faso's national COVID-19 response plan (in French)

The global case study on small island developing states (SIDS)

The protection of the rights of refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic; Executive summary available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, Annexes

The evaluation of the unintended consequences of Malawi's COVID-19 urban cash intervention