Yemen

The Corporate Emergency Evaluation (CEE) of WFP’s Response in Yemen mandated by the Office of Evaluation (OEV) served the dual objectives of accountability and learning. It provided accountability for results to WFP stakeholders, and generated evidence on WFP's performance in Yemen specifically to inform WFP's future engagement in the country and share good practices to promote broader learning on WFP's response to complex and protracted crisis.

The evaluation covered WFP strategies and interventions in Yemen between January 2019 and September 2024. While the main units of analysis of the evaluation were the ICSPs 2019-2022 and 2023-2025,the evaluation also assessed WFP's work in Yemen that was not explicitly captured in the ICSPs.

The evaluation assessed WFP contributions to CSP strategic outcomes, establishing plausible causal relations between the outputs of WFP activities, the implementation process, the operational environment, and changes observed at the outcome level, including any unintended consequences.

It will also focus on adherence to humanitarian principles, gender equality and wider equity considerations, protection and accountability to affected people.

The overall objective was to contribute to poverty reduction and development in the Republic of Yemen through EU cooperation assistance as well as promoting EU cross-cutting objectives related to environment and climate change, rights based approach, persons with disability, indigenous peoples and gender equality. The specific objective was to conduct third-party monitoring and evaluation of EU projects in Yemen.

The outputs provided include:

• Requested output 1: A third-party monitoring report for each of the third-party monitoring assignments.
• Requested output 2: An evaluation report for each of the evaluation assignments.

The overall objective was to contribute to poverty reduction and development in the Republic of Yemen through EU cooperation assistance as well as promoting EU cross-cutting objectives related to environment and climate change, rights based approach, persons with disability, indigenous peoples and gender equality. The specific objective was to conduct third-party monitoring and evaluation of EU projects in Yemen.

Two main outputs delivered for this project:

• Requested output 1: A third-party monitoring report for each of the third-party monitoring assignments.
• Requested output 2: An evaluation report for each of the evaluation assignments.

The objective is to contribute to poverty reduction and development in the Republic of Yemen through EU cooperation assistance as well as promoting EU cross-cutting objectives related to environment and climate change, rights based approach, persons with disability, indigenous peoples and gender equality.

a) Technical assessment of concept notes in accordance with guidelines provided by the Contracting Authority, based on the published evaluation grids.

Expectation:

• 99 concept notes.
• Assessment of each concept note by two assessors individually.

b) Technical and financial assessment of full applications in accordance with guidelines provided by the Contracting Authority and are based on the published evaluation grids. Expectation:

• 32 full applications.
• Assessment of 4 concept notes per day and 2 full applications per day per assessor (on average).

c) Availability of assessors to advise the members of the Evaluation Committee is required.

d) The assessors are required to uphold the integrity of the evaluation process. Proposals are assessed online through PROSPECT or other secured IT tools if deemed necessary.

The overall objective of this contract was to contribute to the peaceful development of the Republic of Yemen through EU development cooperation assistance.

The specific objective was to carry out a sector evaluation of EU support to the peace process in Yemen and related stabilisation interventions, and to provide recommendations and programmatic documents for future EU development cooperation interventions in this sector.

Implementation of quantitative and qualitative research in support of IOM's Transition and Recovery programme in Marib, Hadhramawt, Abyan, Lahj, Aden, Shabwa and Taiz. Result is an analysis report, composed of the following sections.

The global objective of this project was to provide a short-term expertise to support the EUD in planning for the implementation and monitoring of GAP II for the period 2018-20.

More specifically, the objective was to conduct two Gender Analyses (GAs), one for Yemen and one for Iraq, focusing on the EU development and cooperation strategic areas for each respective country to inform and effectively mainstream gender into the design and formulation of future projects/programmes of the EU Delegation to Yemen/Iraq and EU Member States (EUMS).

To this end, the GAs provided an understanding of the gender inequalities that persist in the economic and political spheres in Yemen and in Iraq, their causes, the changes prompted by the conflict (ongoing in Yemen, and recent in Iraq), and of local authorities' and non-state actors' capacity to work on gender equality in these contexts.

Relevant background

Since early 2007, the Commission, the UN-family and the World Bank have worked together in setting up a platform for cooperation on post-crisis needs assessments for natural disaster (Post-Disaster Needs Assessment, PDNA) and conflict (Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment (RPBA), previously named Post-Conflict Needs Assessment, PCNA) scenarios. This trilateral cooperation was framed and formalised through the signature of a Joint Declaration on “Post-Crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning” in September 2008. The EU/UN/WB platform covers the whole PDNA/RPBA(PCNA) process, including strategic coordination, development of joint methodologies for post-crisis assessments, joint deployment of assessment teams, joint training and joint recovery planning and monitoring.

In line with the 2008 Declaration on Joint Post-crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning, the overall objective of the project is to assist and develop third countries’ in-country capacity to gradually assume a more prominent role in Post-Disaster Needs Assessments and Post-Conflict Needs Assessments (now changed to Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessments, RPBA).

The purpose of this project was:

• to support further development of joint PDNA/RPBA(formerly PCNA) methodologies, tools, training programmes, etc.;
• to support joint PDNA/RPBA(formerly PCNA) missions in-country/in region (in coordinating with EU Heads of Delegations and with the European External Actions Service (EEAS) and European Commission). While such support could cover any relevant technical field (long-term and short-term expertise), it is foreseen that a particular emphasis is put on expertise in mission planning and development of final reports/recovery frameworks.

The two phases of the project contributed to a variety of outputs and results, including:

• Phase 1 (01/01/2013 – 31/07/2015): revision of the PDNA methodology and development of the joint EU/UN/WB PDNA Guide, development of the Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF) Guide, review of the PCNA methodology, development of training and capacity building materials, delivery of information/capacity building sessions, joint PDNA/PCNA training courses for national authorities and regional/international organisations, support to over 15 joint EU/UN/WB PDNA/PCNA missions;
• Phase 2 (10/07/2015 – 09/07/2017): revision of the PCNA methodology and development of the RPBA methodology, development of training and capacity building materials, delivery of information/capacity building sessions, joint PDNA/RPBA training courses for national authorities and regional/international organisations, support to over 10 joint EU/UN/WB PDNA/RPBA missions.