Bikenge Review OCB Deciding and Launching Process (2016)

Bikenge project was opened in Jan 2015, and medical activities starting on Mar 2015. Six months later, in October 2015, the decision was made to close the project. This was followed by a feeling of frustration, the impression that invested resources were wasted and that this closure could negatively impact on the population and MSF perception.This evaluation looks at the process of decision making for starting the project with the goal to identify the lessons to be used by operations in order to avoid similar situations in the future.

Correction: a previous version of the report referred to Pierre Trbovic as Pierre Van Heddegmen. The name has been corrected in this version.