COVID-19 Response and Recovery Operations in Bangladesh

The purpose of this independent end of project evaluation was to evaluate, summarise and generate lessons on both service quality and the impacts implemented in response to COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf Upazila, with particular emphasis on the approaches and implementation support provided by the BDRCS in its auxiliary role to the government.

The uniqueness of this pandemic – including the responses taken – means that there is a great deal of learning potential from this, in particular to understand what it actually takes for a National Society (already engaged with many other programmes) to adjust to the needs and priorities of an event such as this. The evaluation was conducted by a team of two people from Proaction Consulting, UK, with oversight from the British Red Cross. Terms of Reference for this evaluation are presented in Annex I.