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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
8:00 am - 9:15 am ET
How can evaluation innovate to accelerate learning in humanitarian action amidst escalating crises?
While humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent, complex, and interconnected due to conflict, climate change, displacement, pandemics, and economic instability, the funding landscape for humanitarian action has drastically shifted in recent years. What does this mean for the evaluation of humanitarian action? How can evaluative evidence be used for change by humanitarian actors in the present context?
This Future of Evaluation dialogue explored how evaluation can innovate to accelerate learning and improve decision-making in humanitarian action. The discussion examined emerging approaches such as real-time and adaptive evaluation, complexity-aware methods, artificial intelligence, remote data collection, and evaluative foresight to generate evidence that is responsive to rapidly evolving contexts. It also considered how participatory and locally led evaluation can strengthen accountability to affected populations while fostering continuous learning and adaptation.
By bringing together humanitarian practitioners, evaluators, and thought leaders, the dialogue aimed to identify the future-ready evaluation approaches and capabilities needed to support more effective, equitable, and resilient humanitarian responses in an era of escalating crises.
Moderator
Khaled Rajab is Country Director of Anera in Palestine and an international governance, humanitarian, and evaluation expert with over 20 years of experience. He has led and evaluated programmes across more than 15 countries for USAID, the World Bank, UN agencies, and other multilateral and bilateral donors, specializing in governance, humanitarian action, institutional reform, and organizational learning.
Panelists
Sarah Gharbi is a Research Fellow at ALNAP with 20 years of experience in the humanitarian and development sectors. She has worked with several international agencies as an evaluation advisor, researcher, and evaluator. She is the co-author of the ALNAP evaluation guide on adapting the OECD criteria to humanitarian contexts.
Nur Abdelkhaliq Zamora is Principal Consultant at IOD PARC, an employee-owned monitoring and evaluation company based in the UK. She has over 18 years of research and consulting experience and has worked on assignments with organisations including UNRWA, UNHCR, WFP, IOM, Danish Red Cross, the European Commission and GIZ. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Edinburgh.
Eddah Kanini is a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), organizational development, and gender specialist with over fifteen years of professional experience advancing transformative evaluation practice across Sub-Saharan Africa and globally. Eddah has played active leadership roles in national, continental and global evaluation bodies such as the Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals Association of Kenya (MEPAK), African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), AGDEN, IDEAS, and EvalPartners initiatives.
Camilla Buch von Schroeder is a Humanitarian Evaluation Specialist at the UNFPA Independent Evaluation Office. She brings over two decades of experience in programme and people management, evaluation and operational research in humanitarian and development contexts across Africa. Her core expertise spans sexual and reproductive health and gender-based-violence in emergencies, youth and adolescent programming, social and behaviour change, and humanitarian-peace-development nexus programming.
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