This training will be conducted by three Emirati trainers, who were accredited by the Sphere project following OCFA’s Training of Trainers in January 2011.
One of OCFA’s core functions is to promote monitoring and evaluation of the UAE’s foreign aid. Building on the success of the recent round-table discussion on the evaluation of development projects, OCFA proposes to hold a complementary event, focusing on the evaluation of humanitarian projects.
While the UAE foreign aid sector receives consistently high coverage within the national media, there is a great deal of potential to increase international awareness of the country’s humanitarian activities.
OCFA has recently collaborated with the Islamic Development Bank and the African Development Bank to produce an Arabic version of the Quality Standards for Development Evaluation issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC).
With the proliferation of actors and approaches, managing aid projects and programmes is an increasingly demanding task. It is essential for organizations to have a clear view of their vision and how to achieve it, as well as their role with respect to other aid actors.
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Sphere Project: Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response’ workshop is led by Emirati trainers
The Standards are intended to serve as a guide, incentive and inspiration to improve evaluation practices and help make development programs more effective
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan received here today Hazza Mohammed Falah Al Qahtani, Director-General of the UAE Office for the Coordination of Foreign Aid (OCFA) who handed him the ISO 9001 certificate
EIF reports provide information on current emergencies, in order to alert UAE actors to the most pressing needs resulting from a humanitarian emergency, as well as an overview of the international and UAE response to date. An EIF is issued when support from the UAE may be required due to the magnitude of the crisis or the vulnerability of the affected population.
Humanitarian Flash reports are available to UAE actors only, and provide updates on current humanitarian issues worldwide by theme, such as climate change and the global food crisis, as well as a summary of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, to which there has generally not been an international response.
Humanitarian Country Profiles provide information about development and humanitarian issues within a selected country, as well as listing the major local and international organizations that are already present in the field. The countries are selected according to the level of assistance that they have received from the UAE over the past two decades, and whether they are facing recurrent or ‘chronic’ emergencies.