Nearly 33 million people around the world were rendered homeless last year due to violent conflicts. Crisis prevention and recovery is a core practice area for UNDP, with activities in conflict-affected countries constituting nearly 40 percent of its global expenditure in 2005. Given this significance, this evaluation assesses the performance of UNDP assistance to conflict-affected countries since 2000. This report is based on detailed case studies of six Security Council-mandated countries (Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan). This was supplemented by a survey of 24 countries receiving support from the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.