Who the TEC
is
The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) is an independent
learning and accountability initiative in the humanitarian sector.
Work by TEC member agencies represents the most intensive study of
a humanitarian response since the Rwanda multi-donor evaluation in
the mid-1990s, and is the first time in 10 years that the sector
has sought to scrutinise itself as a whole.
TEC Aims
The TEC has three aims:
- To improve the quality of humanitarian action - including
linkages to longer term recovery and development - by learning
lessons from the international response to the tsunami.
- To provide accountability to both donor and affected-country
populations for the overall response.
- To test the TEC approach as a possible model for future joint
collaborative evaluation.
Member agencies
The TEC has over 40 member agencies from across the humanitarian
sector. These agencies represent a broad coalition of UN agencies,
donors, (I)NGOs, the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement, and
research groups.
Reasons the TEC formed
- The agencies that formed the TEC were interested in maximising
learning from the tsunami response though joint evaluation, with a
focus on topics that would benefit from a humanitarian-sector wide
approach rather than an individual agency one.
- It was hoped that this collaboration would reduce the need for
individual agency evaluations as well as duplication of
effort.
- Another significant intention was to focus collaborative
efforts on recurring systemic problems in humanitarian action, with
analysis concentrated at the policy rather than programmatic
level.
- Participating agencies also believe that joint evaluation
increases the likelihood of evaluation findings being used to their
full potential, and agencies involved in the TEC are committed to
following up on findings of the joint evaluations and subsequent
synthesis report.