Strategic Joint Evaluation of the Collective International Development and Humanitarian Assistance Response to the COVID‑19 Pandemic

Annex A. COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition

The COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition is an independent collaborative project. The Coalition is made up of country development evaluation units, UN agencies and multilateral organisations. The Coalition provides credible evidence to inform international co‑operation supporting non-clinical responses to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries - helping to ensure that lessons are learned and that the global development community delivers on its promises. The Coalition will support and communicate both individual participants’ evaluations, and joint work involving multiple participants. This collaborative approach will maximise synergies and learning, while reducing duplication of effort in evaluating different elements of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Participants and steering group

The Coalition is made up of the central, independent evaluation units (or other suitable research or accountability entity) from 35 countries (both OECD members and other countries) and multilateral institutions. The role of Coalition participants is to provide input and data, such as information on the COVID-19 response of their respective institutions; monitoring, evaluation and results data; and evaluation findings. Participants are expected to provide timely feedback on Coalition work and to support quality by reviewing draft reports. Participants take the lead in linking with evaluation users/audiences, identifying learning and accountability needs to ensure policy relevance. Likewise, they are expected to collaborate, sharing information and adjusting work plans to increase coherence.

Table ‎A.1. Participants in the COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition and Core Group

International Organisations	Countries
African Development Bank	Australia
ALNAP	Bangladesh
Asian Development Bank	Belgium
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	Benin
CABEI	Burkina Faso
CEPI	Cambodia
Council of Europe	Canada
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)	Cabo Verde
FAO	Colombia
GAVI	Czechia
Global Environment Facility (GEF)	Denmark
IADB	European Commission
ILO	Finland
IMF	France
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)	Gabon
IOM	Germany
Islamic Development Bank	Ghana
New Development Bank (NDB)	Iceland
OHCHR	Ireland
UNESCO	Italy
UNDP	Japan
UNFPA	Luxembourg
UNICEF	Malawi
UNIDO	Mexico
UNOCT	Netherlands
UN ECA	New Zealand
UN Women	Norway
UNHCR	South Africa
WFP	Spain
World Bank Independent Evaluation Group	Sweden
WHO	Switzerland
	Togo
	Uganda
	United Kingdom
	United States

Table ‎A.2. Steering Group of the Strategic Joint Evaluation

Name	Country or International Organisation
Winston ALLEN	Agency Evaluation Officer, Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning, USAID
Kevin ANDREWS	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UK
Angelina BAZUGBA	Director, National Transformational Leadership Institute, University of Juba, South Sudan
Eva Jakobsen BROEGAARD	Chief Adviser - Evaluation, Learning & Quality, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Alexandra CHAMBEL and Michael OHIARLAITHE	Senior Evaluation Officer, WFP
Jenny GOLD and Stephen PORTER	Senior Evaluation Officer, World Bank
Ivo HOOGHE	Evaluation Coordinator, Special Evaluation Office, Belgium
Richard JONES	Senior Evaluation Advisor, UNDP
Frank KIRWAN, Patrick EMPEY, and Siobhán MCGEE	Development Specialist, Evaluation and Audit Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Ida LINDKVIST	Senior Advisor, NORAD
Timothy LUBANGA	Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda (TBC)
David MAKHADO	Chief Director for Research and Knowledge Management, Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa
Isabelle MERCIER	Director, Evaluation, Global Affairs Canada
Leslie MORELAND	Senior Programme Officer, Gavi
Nana OPARE DJAN	Director General, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, National Development Planning Commission, Ghana
Amélie zu Eulenburg	DEval, Germany
Magdalena Orth	DEval, Germany
Cornelia Römling	DEval, Germany
Anna Lorenza PIGAZZINI	European Commission
Ilona Mattila, Sanna PULKKINEN	Senior Evaluation Specialist, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Véronique SALZE-LOZAC'H	Chief Evaluator, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Anand SIVASANKARA KURUP and Riccardo POLASTRO	Evaluation Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
Carlos TARAZONA	Senior Evaluation Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Albert TUYISHIME	Medical doctor, Head of HIV/AIDS, Diseases Prevention and Control Department, Rwanda Biomedical
Patricia VIDAL	Evaluation Officer, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Ndadilnasiya Endie WAZIRI	National Coordinator, African Field Epidemiology Network, Nigeria