13 January 2022 – The evaluation, commissioned by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, with support from the WHO Evaluation Office, assessed WHO’s emergency response in Syria due to the conflict from 2016 to 2020, including its strategy, interventions, operations, performance and results, as well as its engagement and coordination with partners toward these same ends.
It included operations conducted through the main office in Damascus and sub-offices within Syria, cross-border operations from Gaziantep, previous cross-border work from Erbil and Amman, Whole of Syria Health Cluster coordination from Amman, and support and coordination from the WHO Regional Offices for the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe and WHO headquarters. It generated comprehensive learning on WHO’s operations and performance in Syria, while informing WHO’s humanitarian work in emergency contexts elsewhere, the policy and practice of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work.
Final report: Independent evaluation of WHO’s Whole of Syria response
