Humanitarian aid in insecure settings needs closer coordination in monitoring and evaluation

Aid agencies responding to the Syrian crisis benefit from closer coordination processes in monitoring and evaluation, said Elias Sagmeister during a peer-learning event in Amman, Jordan, on March 15. In a presentation for M&E practitioners, Sagmeister shared preliminary findings of the Secure Access in Volatile Environments (SAVE) project, including that agencies often underestimate the difficulty of using third parties to verify field data and monitor humanitarian action in contexts where insecure conditions constrain field access.