In late 2003, the GICHD Council of Foundation decided to commission an independent evaluation of the Centre, in part to assess the GICHD Strategy 2003-05 and to contribute to the development of a new Strategy. The evaluation began in summer 2004, and was completed in November of that year.
- Evaluation of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 2004 PDF 245KB
Conducted by: Stéphane Jeannet, Human Solutions Consulting – Geneva
November 2004
Since then, the Centre has commissioned more focused evaluations of four of its programmes, as follows:
- Evaluation of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 2007 - Mine Detecting Dogs and Mine Risk Education PDF 1.4MB
Conducted by: Dr Russell Gasser (Humanitarian Technology Consulting Ltd)
June 2007 - Evaluation of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 2008 - Support for Technology and Mine Action Standards PDF 453KB
Conducted by: Dr Russell Gasser (Humanitarian Technology Consulting Ltd), Dr Robert Keeley (RK Consulting Ltd)
July 2008
In 2010, upon request of the Swiss Government, an independent evaluation of the Centre was undertaken.
- A General Evaluation of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 2010 PDF 1MB
Conducted by: David Hewitson and Arianna Calza Bini
June 2010
The Centre also decided to commission a more focused evaluation of the Information Management section (including IMSMA).
- Evaluation of GICHD Information Management Programme PDF 304KB
Conducted by: Charles Downs and Paul Currion
June 2010
In 2012, an evaluation of the GICHD Communications was undertaken.
- Evaluation of GICHD Communications PDF 706KB
Conducted by: Jim Coe & Andy McLean