AMIRA Programme Final Evaluation

The goal of the AMiRA programme is to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants along migratory routes, by giving assistance related to protection, basic services (food, non-food items via either cash or in-kind assistance), health, psychosocial support, information, social cohesion, restoring family links (RFL) and livelihoods, thus making migration safer. This programme adopts a route-based approach (RBA) and was implemented in Burkina Faso, Egypt, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Sudan. Delivered via an 11-organisation consortium (10 Red Crescent Red Cross National societies and one external actor – INTRAC – in charge of the learning component), it started in April 2018 and ended in December 2020 in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Sudan, in January 2021 in Egypt, and in March 2021 in Niger and Mali.

With the programme coming to an end, the British Red Cross (BRC), as grant holder, commissioned an external independent evaluation of the programme across the six countries. The purpose of the evaluation was to: 1) Understand whether the AMiRA programme has reached its objectives and has positive or negative, intended or unintended effects; and 2) Identify lessons learned and formulate recommendations to guide future programming, should there be a new phase of programme funding by FCDO and/or other partners. The evaluation relied on a mixed-methods methodology, that included a desk review of 134 documents, 115 Key Informant Interviews, 115 paired interviews, and a web-based survey (n=16). The evaluation team produced six country evaluation reports and a consolidated programme evaluation report.