Christian Aid is committed to evidencing the change that we are making, and being transparent and accountable in our work. As part of this commitment, we regularly commission external evaluations of large or significant pieces of work.
Reports from these evaluations and accompanying management responses are available below.
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The rights of the Quilombola communities: an independent study of the impact of ecumencial cooperation
Following more than 15 years of support to local partners working on Quilombola rights, Christian Aid (in collaboration with ACT agency EED) commissioned an independent review of our progress. The aims of the study were to acknowledge successes, identify ongoing challenges, learn lessons to inform our own future programmes, and share learning with quilombolas and our partners.
The Quilombola people are descendants of slaves who escaped plantations and cattle farms, and fled to the forest. Quilombolas have been living in Brazil, in small village communities, ever since. There are about 3,000 Quilombola communities in Brazil. The Quilombola are facing particular threats from industrial interests – especially logging, cattle-ranching and mining – encroaching on their territory.
Executive summary PDF (535kb)
Management response PDF (580kb)
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Partnership Programme Agreement (PPA) with DFID
As part of our 2008-11 Partnership Programme Agreement (PPA) with DFID, Christian Aid is subject to an independent external evaluation of our progress against a 'PPA performance framework' agreed with DFID. This sets out objectives in priority areas of shared interest between Christian Aid and DFID.
The evaluation aims to assess how far Christian Aid has gone towards achieving these mutually agreed objectives and to derive lessons that will inform Christian Aid's future strategies, programmes and approaches.
PPA final evaluation report (481kb)
PPA management response summary (26kb)
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Countdown to Copenhagen campaign evaluation
Christian Aid identified the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 (COP15) as a moment of critical importance for our climate change advocacy effort. In the two years leading up to this, we ran our 'Countdown to Copenhagen' campaign. The resources committed to this campaign were significant and it involved a substantial level of joint working with other agencies.
In 2010 we commissioned an independent evaluation to assess both the results of this work - including our climate change policy, lobbying, campaigning and public communications work - and the efficiency and effectiveness of our resource use and ways of working.
Countdown to Copenhagen evaluation summary (1.7mb)
Management response to evaluation (24kb)
The full report is available upon request from info@christian-aid.org.
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Accountable governance (2009)
Each year we commission an independent study to look at how well we’re progressing towards the goals in one of our six Strategic Focus Areas, as set out in our corporate strategy document Turning hope into action .
We use this to inform our Board of Trustees and identify areas for improvement. This year our accountable governance work was put under the spotlight. The evaluator reviewed our performance in programme work, influencing and advocacy, and communications with supporters. Read the findings here: check out the recommendations, find out about the good, the bad and the ugly - and our response.
Accountable governance report 2009 (52kb)
Summary of management response 2009 (32kb)
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Christian Aid Tsunami evaluation (2007)
An independent evaluation report into the organisation's response to the Indian Ocean Tsumami of 2004.
Tsunami evaluation report (88kb)
Tsunami Christian Aid management response (20kb)
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