Evolution of a monitoring and evaluation system in disaster recovery: Learning from the Katrina Aid Today National Case Management Consortium
✍ Scribed by Amanda Janis; Kelly M. Stiefel; Celine C. Carbullido
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Volume
- 2010
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6736
- DOI
- 10.1002/ev.330
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Based on their personal experience and reflections, the authors describe and analyze the monitoring and evaluation system employed by Katrina Aid Today (KAT), a program created by a consortium of partner agencies to provide disaster recovery case management services throughout the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast and displaced scores of people on a scale previously unknown in the United States. The authors' reflections on the KAT model provide suggestions for future evaluations of disaster case management. The need for flexibility in disaster recovery, monitoring and evaluation program design, critical aspects for implementing and adapting an interagency monitoring and evaluation system, evolving interagency data collection, developing outcome measures, and emphasizing program evaluation in disaster recovery are discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.