OCHA and UNDP commissioned this evaluation. This group is the main audience for this
report, together with those involved in managing the funds and fund recipients.
In Sudan, the Fund is known as the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) while it is called the Pooled Fund in the DRC. For convenience, this report uses the
country-specific name when referring to one fund alone and uses ‘Common/Pooled Fund’ or ‘the Funds’ as generic terms.
The main objectives of the evaluation are to:
• Build on the evaluation that was undertaken in 2006, adding to, and consolidating,
evidence on the operation of the Funds;
• Inform key decision-makers on how the main components of the Funds are operating.
In particular, the Working Group was keen to learn whether the ‘teething problems’ and the
difficulties around the involvement of NGOs, which had been identified by the 2006
evaluation, had been addressed and overcome.
The evaluation covered the period from the end of 2006 until the end of 2007.
Evaluation of Common/Pooled humanitarian funds in DRC and Sudan
