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Médecins sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam (MSF OCA) has been working in Uzbekistan from the beginning of 1998 with a profile 
of running vertical, specialised medical projects, sometimes on a very advanced technical level. MSF runs its programme in close collaboration with the relevant institutes within the Uzbek Ministry of Health (MoH). MSF in Uzbekistan mainly works through the MoH in an advisory and supportive capacity.

In 2022, the SEU commissioned a meta evaluation of five years of evaluation to explore their value to MSF Operational Centre Brussels (OCB). The result showed us that we do, and we take with us numerous recommendations for how we can make our work generate even more value. Consequently, we have a clearer understanding, and perhaps even an idea of the implementation, of what quality medical humanitarian evaluation is for MSF. In 2022, we adapted elements of our set-up and our approach, to move us closer to this goal.
Through this annual report, of this specific format, we want to share insight into all important elements – the transversal analysis, how we engage colleagues and consultants, and not least, what happens with the findings.

Two papers are linked in the annual report but also downloadable separately; one on the reoccuring themes and the second on the alignment between evaluations vs OCB's strategic orientations.

Mozambique is one of the most severely affected countries by the HIV pandemic. The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Operational Centre Brussels (OCB) HIV project in Beira started in 2014 as a project for migrants and key populations (KPs). This led to insights into the magnitude of the Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) issue that needed to be addressed. In 2018, MSF introduced an AHD component in the Beira Central Hospital (BCH) and in two health centres (Munhava and to a lesser extent, Ponta Gea). The AHD component covered MSF-run laboratory diagnostics and in-facility case management circuits. During the evaluation period, Cyclone Idai and COVID-19 restrictions were important external factors.

The Stockholm Evaluation Unit Steering Committee commissioned this meta-evaluation to assess the quality and value of past evaluations and produce useful processes and products to “maximiz[e] the strategic value of requesting, conducting and making use of [future] evaluations” at Operational Centre Brussels (OCB). 

Improving the Availability and Use of SGBV Services in Central Kasai, DRC - Phase 1 Evaluation Report (in English and French)

Evaluation report: Gaza and Mosul MSF reconstructive surgery projects

Middle East Support Office (MESO) opened at the end of 2016 with the main goal to provide support to OCG ME missions. While objectives and outcomes were not clearly outlined at the beginning, this became clearer in the following years and adjusted around three main objectives/pillars: increase access and acceptance, investing in people and operational support.

Evaluation of Design and Build Process of MSF Health Facilities

Evaluation de la composante PTME du projet VIH de MSF à Conakry, Guinée

The Overall Objective, as outlined in the ToR is: “to assess to what extent the 2020 reorganisation of the Medical Network (from hereinafter called Network) has improved initial reasonsfor change (individual and collective needs of the medical network), if it has enabled more efficient collaboration and strategic sparring between OCBA departments and Regional Units, and how it is responding to patients and communities medical-humanitarian needs in MSF field operations”