Background: After the powerful earthquake which struck Nepal in April 2015, the International Red Cross Red and Crescent Movement mobilized the full range of their resources to support the relief and recovery efforts. NRCS, IFRC and in-country Participating National Societies agreed that individual partners would conduct their own final evaluations, rather than a combined final evaluation. So it was proposed to also conduct a meta-evaluation of the individual final evaluations together with all other reviews and thematic studies conducted 2015 to 2019.

Approach: A central part of the report was a qualitative synthesis of the summaries of over 30 evaluative reports. The design was partially deductive because some main high-level causal factors like Actions and Outcomes were pre-determined, and partly inductive because many lower-level factors were identified within these high-level groups. The focus was on the executive summary and conclusions sections of the primary documents, as these already represent an effort by the respective authors to summarise their own documents.