On Egin international consulting

In Basque language, On Egin has several meanings: doing things well, doing good, but also wishing well and bon appetite. Our name thus represents who we are and what we want to offer our clients a quality product to help them delivering and taking better decisions.

vision

We are a highly respected consultancy firm well-known by the quality of its product, its collaborative and transparent approach and the availability to provide multiple range of services thanks to its wide roster of highly competent partner consultants.

mission

We are committed to support the humanitarian actors to better respond to those most in need by creating durable and more resilient programming and operations.

experience

Even though we are a new firm, our consultants team have in average 15 years of experience working in the field of humanitarian aid, disaster risk reduction and recovery, humanitarian and fleet logistics, public health and sanitation, protection, livelihoods, good governance and local development all over the world.

approach

Our work based on rigorous methodologies and practical lessons learned in complex humanitarian environments. We provide a good understanding and proven experience in assessing processes, protocols and results based approaches based in Sphere and Core Humanitarian Standards, in order to help the organizations to move towards such quality criteria.

Our Standards & Values

Utility and quality: our work must be useful, with high quality and intended to be used by the client.


Feasibility: Our advice and recommendations must be realistic, clear, simple, diplomatic, and managed in a sensible, cost effective manner.


Ethics & Legality: Our work is guided by and conducted in an ethical and legal manner, with particular regard for the welfare of those involved in and affected by the results.


Impartiality & Independence: We are impartial. We provide a comprehensive and unbiased assessment that takes into account the views of all stakeholders. We are also independent and we will not be involved or have a vested interest in the intervention.


Transparency: our work is conducted in an open and transparent manner.


Accuracy: The results of our work are technically accurate, providing sufficient information about the data collection, analysis, and interpretation methods so that its worth or merit can be determined.


Our Team

Íñigo Barrena

Executive Director and Founder

Jorge Menéndez Martínez

Co-director and founder

Our Clients & Projects

Final Project Evaluation “Hurricane Ian Operation in Cuba” (2024), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)


International Service department scope study, American Red Cross 2024


Mid-term evaluation “Sustainable Island Solutions in Science, Technology, Energy and Mathematics” (SISSTEM) project in ARUBA, UNDP 2023


Final evaluation and rapid needs assessment, Rempart epidemic project, IFRC/PIRAC Consortium in the Caribbean, 2023


Final evaluation of the ECHO project, IFRC/PIRAC Consortium in the Caribbean, 2023


Final Evaluation of West Bara integrated community health project. Swiss Red Cross (2022)


Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten need assessment. Netherlands Red Cross (2022)


PIRAC Regional Project proposal identification and writing. France Red Cross (2022)


Review of Disaster, Risk and Response regional group for Latin America and the Caribbean (REDLAC), OCHA (2022)


Developing a business plan for the sexual and reproductive marketplace (2021-22), Inppares (Perú)


Final Evaluation and systematization of the Logistics Enhancing Project. France Red Cross (2021)


Final Evaluation of the COVID-19 Food Assistance Program CAS Islands (Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten). Netherlands Red Cross (2021)


Final Evaluation of the Americas: Population Movement Emergency Appeal. IFRC (2021)


Supporting and advising the Project team. Peace Dividend Initiative - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. (2021)


Final Evaluation Micronesia Community Resilience and Capacity Development (CRCD) Project - Phase 2. American Red Cross (2020)


Developing the Federation Wide Regional Migration Action Plan for the Americas Region. Red Cross Movement. 2021


Developing a self-assessment tool for National Societies involved in the BMZ project to assess their organizational development level. German Red Cross (2020 -2021)


Developing and supporting the implementation of a business plan for the sexual and reproductive health counsellors unit. Inppares (2021)


Facilitating “Humanitarian Project for Migration in Colombia” lessons learned workshop. American Red Cross (2020)


Facilitating ARC- ICRC- Salvadorian Red Cross Strategic Planning Meeting. American Red Cross (2020)


Lesson learned and strategic planning second phase BMZ project. German Red Cross (2019-2020)


Final Project Evaluation “Hurricane Irma Operation in Cuba” (2019). International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)


Final Project Evaluation “Empowering Philippine Red Cross, Government Institutions and Communities to consolidate and replicate Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction in seven provinces in the Philippines” (2019) - German Red Cross


Developing a Self-Evaluation Tool for IFRC Response Operations (2017-18) IFRC


Developing disaster and crisis response SoP´s for the IFRC Regional Office - (2017) IFRC


Identification and design of a regional project for ECHO´s HIP 2017 call in the Americas - (2017) IFRC