External evaluation 2020

Overview

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (the Alliance) was founded in 1999 as an initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research and, within its first five years, formalised its institutional structure as a partnership hosted by WHO. Since inception, it commissioned four external reviews or evaluations. The fourth evaluation which is the subject of this report covers the performance and achievements of the Alliance under its third strategic plan (2016 – 2020). It was conducted between November 2019 and May 2020 and therefore focused on the Alliance performance during the first two biennia of programme implementation in this strategy period, i.e. 2016/17 and 2018/19.