The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) commissioned an independent evaluation by Alinea International of the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of DFAT’s Humanitarian Strategic Partnership Frameworks (SPFs) between Australia and the World Food Programme (WFP); the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The evaluation focuses on the performance of the Strategic Partnership Frameworks and subsidiary arrangements as a modality for engaging partners to provide humanitarian assistance. It is not an evaluation of the performance of the partners. The evaluation sought to answer the following Key Evaluation Questions (KEQs):
- To what extent are the SPFs aligned with current Australian international development and humanitarian programming policies and priorities? (Relevance)
- To what extent are the SPFs shared partnership objectives and deliverables being progressed? (Effectiveness)
- To what extent are the SPFs an efficient financial, compliance, and partnership modality for DFAT and Partners? (Efficiency)
- What alternative modalities exist?
The evaluation found that SPFs are essential to DFAT’s capability to address lifesaving needs in times of crisis and found strong alignment with Australia’s policies and priorities.
The evaluation generated three recommendations on partnership modality, planning and performance monitoring and DFAT has issued a management response agreeing to the first two recommendations and partially agreeing to the third.
Report
- Humanitarian Strategic Partnership Frameworks final report [DOCX 476 KB]
- Humanitarian Strategic Partnership Frameworks final report [PDF 797 KB]
Executive summary
- Executive summary - Humanitarian Strategic Partnership Frameworks [DOCX 194 KB]
- Executive summary - Humanitarian Strategic Partnership Frameworks [PDF 302 KB]