Enhancing the Evidence for Humanitarian Action (EEHA) in the Face of Climate Change is a 2-year interdisciplinary project funded by the USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). EEHA will provide BHA, its partners, and the broader humanitarian community with indicators and methods that enhance the evidence base for improving humanitarian investments in early warning, disaster risk reduction, and climate adaptation programming. EEHA will identify behavior and landscape changes that reflect the mechanisms that underly the desired outcomes of emergency programming. The project has three core activities: (1) a systematic review of emergency programmatic documents to identify indicators that measures of behavior and landscape change; (2) an in-country assessment of several recently completed or on-going programs to identity relevant, tractable, and explanatory indicators; (1) develop pilot projects that test both the indicators and methods. The new indicators and methods will help the humanitarian community better assess the effectiveness of their investments across a diversity of goals and risk environments as well as improve the evidence base for humanitarian programming.
EEHA is a collaboration between the University of Arizona and TANGO International. Project collaborators include Alex Braithwaite (SGPP); Greg Collins (RII); Diana Githu (SNRE); Tim Finan (Anthropology); Tim Frankenberger and Karyn Fox (Tango Int.); Zack Guido and Corrie Hannah (AIR); Anna Josephson, Jeff Michler, and Chandrakant Agme (AREC); and Beth Tellman, Rohit Mukherjee, and Prasanti Sharma (SGDE).
Project Point of Contact: Zack Guido, zguido@arizona.edu