This paper provides an overview and broad analysis of evaluations of Concern’s major emergency operations from 2000–2004, as a follow up to the original meta-evaluation document produced in April 2001.

Without covering again the basics of the organisation’s definition of and approach to humanitarian issues, it updates some of the major contextual aspects such as the nature of the engagement between humanitarian organisations and the military, the issue of protection, the impact of UN integrated missions, and the impact of rights based programming approaches on humanitarian approaches.