Lewis Sida is an honorary associate of IDS and a humanitarian specialist working on organisation and system change. He is a founder and co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre at IDS. He has led several influential research projects and numerous evaluations, strategy, planning and policy processes.
In 2010 he was the lead author of DFID’s seminal evaluation of its humanitarian work, the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, and following that involved in writing their humanitarian policy. Subsequently he led a four-year, four country evaluation of multi-year humanitarian financing, as well as being deeply involved in the early response to the Syria crisis in various UN roles. Currently he is leading the mid-term evaluation of the EU refugee response in Turkey and a DFID M & E project for their core funding to the UN and Red Cross Movement. He is also working on a follow up project to an independent evaluation of UNHCR’s response to the Rohingya refugees crisis in Bangladesh, titled ‘The Synergies and Inter-Linkages within the Water-Food/Nutrition-Energy Nexus in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh’.
