Results-based protection is a problem-solving approach used to address complexity and the ever-changing environment that surrounds protection issues in humanitarian action. It's an approach which aims for results - results which are a reduction in actual risks that people face. It underscores the importance of starting from the perspective of those experiencing violence, coercion, and deliberate deprivation, and embraces aspects of systems-practice, design-thinking, and other comparable methods that emphasize iteration, adaptability, relationships, interconnectedness, and strategic collaboration to achieve protection outcomes.

Watch this video as an introduction to results-based protection – to watch the video in Arabic, French, and Spanish, click here.

InterAction has been working with various actors across the humanitarian community to identify the key elements that make up successful protection interventions that achieve protection outcomes and reduce risk. The new publication spotlights 13 examples of organizations around the world that have explored innovative ways to adopt results-based protection. To access the booklet, click HERE.

For questions, please contact Jessica Lenz, Senior Technical Advisor, Protection, Interaction at jlenz@interaction.org.

Partnerships and Principles in Conflict Contexts

September 8, 2021

Coordination between local and international actors is important in enabling a shift towards results-based protection practices. To foster an effective partnership between international agencies and local partners, there must be trust between both sets of actors to promote mutual learning, shared analysis, and collective problem solving. RBP Enabler: The various systems and processes that characterize an organization and the wider humanitarian community can enable or block the achievement of protection outcomes. Building on this notion, the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) alongside its partners organized an event to launch the report “Towards Principled Humanitarian Action... Read more →

Survivor and Community Led Crisis Response: Practical Experience and Learning

September 8, 2021

Integrating local response and spontaneous community-led protection strategies in crisis situations is a difficult endeavor. There has been an uptake in learning that highlights the significance of autonomous, community-led protection strategies among affected populations. Nevertheless, despite the increased attention, there has been moderate change in how the affected population is undertaking community-led protection strategies, how they are acknowledged, supported, and strengthened. One reason for this is the lack of practical methodologies to allow agencies to support community-led responses to humanitarian crises without adversely affecting expectations. Noting this, Local 2 Global Protection (L2GP) has concentrated on supporting practitioners to develop a... Read more →

Measuring Protection Outcomes: Emerging Efforts and New Opportunities

July 16, 2021

How do you stop or prevent violence in humanitarian crises? How do you know if your actions have reduced protection risk? Why is it so difficult to program for and to measure risk reduction? In recent years, there has been a gradual shift in how the humanitarian community thinks about these questions. We know that to achieve protection outcomes, we must become better at measuring them. Although we’ve made progress, the humanitarian community continues to debate the best way to improve the measurement of outcomes. Organizations continue to insist that more effective measurement is necessary if we are to achieve... Read more →

View all resources

Results-Based Protection

Home