Independent Evaluator (retired)
Bernard Broughton
Photo credit: Bernard Broughton, 2009
Consulting expertise and experience: From Sept 1995 to Sept 2024 I worked as an independent consultant based in Australia and for five years in Uganda, focusing in the earlier years on designing bilateral and NGO development projects and delivering project design, monitoring and evaluation training. I subsequently concentrated on leading independent reviews and evaluations of humanitarian assistance and development programs.
Over the years I worked on 80 reviews or evaluations across many sectors and topics incl. rural development; village savings and loans; food security and nutrition; livestock health; emergency shelter; water and sanitation; community health services; humanitarian protection; refugees and repatriation; disaster risk management; climate change adaptation; pandemics and emerging infectious diseases; vocational training; governance and human rights; and humanitarian sector reform.
Some highlights:
> For 18 months in 2005-2006 I led the Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation (RTE) of the International Humanitarian Response to the Crisis in Darfur Sudan, initiated by the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.
> In 2006 an evaluation I led of WFP’s food assistance to Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Iran was presented as a best practice example in Evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD-DAC criteria: An ALNAP guide for humanitarian agencies.
> In 2016 I led the design of the Joint New Zealand-Australia Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Humanitarian Responses in the Pacific which in addition to the framework and rationale including a suite of templates, tools and guidance (58 pages)
> In 2018 I was invited to present my Evaluation of Australia's response to Droughts and Frosts in PNG 2015-2017 at the ANU Development Policy Centre's PNG Aid Evaluation Forum.
> In 2024 I led the Evaluation of Australia’s Humanitarian Responses to Complex and Protracted Crises in Myanmar (2017-2024). This was a large and complex evaluation and included evaluating assistance to those displaced across borders to Bangladesh & Thailand.
Tarawa Reef Kiribati - vulnerable to sea level rise
Photo credit: Bernard Broughton, 2015
Profile
Preface: This is a website I set up years ago to help me get short-term contracts as an independent consultant. Now it can serve as a record for family and friends, should they be interested, of what I did for work.
Background:Graduated from Macquarie University, Sydney in 1979 with a BA.LLB and practiced law for a period. In early 1984 volunteered with Save the Children UK in Ethiopia. Engaged in humanitarian action and development thereafter. Gained valuable hands on experience as a field coordinator for Oxfam GB in Uganda & Somalia (1984-1989) and managed a global program as a director of CARE Australia (1989-1990). Then joined the International Federation of the Red Cross as a delegate in Cambodia based in the north-west (1991-1993) and subsequently rejoined Oxfam GB to establish & manage a large relief and recovery program in South Sudan based in Akot east of Rumbek (1993-1995).
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My clients have included Australian DFAT, New Zealand MFAT, United Kingdom DFID, United States AID, European Union ECHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank; United Nations agencies including UNDP, WFP, FAO, OCHA, UNICEF; and many NGOs including amongst others OXFAM, World Vision, The Fred Hollows Foundation, Caritas, AngliCORD, and RedR Australia.
Household granaries in Adilang, northern Uganda - Food security
I undertook short-term assignments and/or long term employment in the following countries by region:
- China, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor Leste
- Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, New Caledonia
- Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan, Russian Federation
- Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola.