Evaluering
Evaluation of the cooperation between the Guatemalan Red Cross and the Norwegian Red Cross (NorCross)
For various years, the Norwegian Red Cross (NorCross) has been cooperating with national societies (NSs) in the Americas, including the Guatemalan Red Cross (GRC), normally channeling the funds multilaterally through the Secretariat of the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and its programs in the region. As a result of tropical storm Stan, which affected Central America in October 2005, the NorCross channeled aid bilaterally to the Guatemalan Red Cross for the first time. Since then, and without abandoning multilateral cooperation, the NRC has been directly and continuously supporting different GRC programs, mainly in the areas of health, disaster risk reduction (DRR), voluntary work and organizational development (OD) with resources from external donors such as the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), as well as its own funds. The Norwegian Red Cross (NorCross) is currently approaching the end of two funding cycles (MFA in 2011 and NORAD in 2012). With the aim of defining its action strategy in the country for the coming years, it has contracted an external consultant to evaluate the projects it has supported in Guatemala, as well as its cooperation model and institutional relations with the Guatemalan Red Cross (GRC) and other relevant actors. The evaluation process, implemented between August 30 and September 27, 2010, has centered on evaluating the relevance of the programs, the effectiveness of the cooperation between the GRC and the NRC in the last four years, and the GRC’s capacity to manage more efficient, effective and sustainable programs.