USAID/OFDA monitors humanitarian assistance programs to ensure that assistance delivered during disaster responses save lives and alleviate human suffering.

Lisa Gabriel, USAID/OFDA

USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) integrates monitoring, evaluation, and learning (ME&L) activities into emergency response and disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs worldwide to improve the quality of programming, enhance accountability, and ensure that USAID/OFDA-supported assistance is appropriate and effective.

As a critical component of program management, ME&L helps USAID/OFDA and its partners understand the progress and results of recent and ongoing humanitarian responses so that future programs can better save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the social and economic impacts of humanitarian emergencies.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, USAID/OFDA provided nearly $11 million to directly support ME&L activities, including third party monitoring programs in difficult-toaccess areas and external performance evaluations across various contexts. USAID/OFDA’s ME&L support complements and builds upon ME&L work conducted by the partners implementing USAID/OFDA-funded humanitarian programs.

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