The purpose of the National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Disaster Recovery Programs is to improve the quality of future disaster recovery programs. It aims to do so by providing users with a nationally consistent approach to developing comprehensive monitoring and evaluation reports. This reporting process will assist users to properly engage with the lessons learnt and promotes a focus on outcomes rather than outputs and processes.
The focus of this Framework is on government sponsored recovery programs, recognising that such programs may be implemented by a variety of organisations such as government (local, state, and federal), Community Recovery Committees, NGO’s and Not-for-profits.
The Framework aims to assist these organisations in evaluating the effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and implementation of disaster recovery programs – using clear criteria and standards for assessing the ‘success’ of the program against desired outcomes.
To support these key learnings, the Framework offers:
- a common understanding of the meaning of ‘disaster recovery’
- a common understanding of what successful disaster recovery ‘looks like’
- a high-level program logic for how successful recovery can be achieved
- an evidence base to support disaster recovery planning and evaluation
- a list of key evaluation questions that can be addressed in any disaster recovery evaluation
- a guide to source, collect, and use data to assess recovery
- a guide for disseminating the findings from recovery program evaluations.
The Framework is to be used in conjunction with the National Disaster Recovery Monitoring and Evaluation Database to facilitate the sharing of Monitoring and Evaluation reports. The Database is the key tool through which the knowledge from these reports is captured and made available to better inform the design of disaster recovery programs.
