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.

Thank you all for participating in and spreading the word about the 2020 Results-Based Protection Good Practice Contest. We received several noteworthy examples from the humanitarian community demonstrating how they have embraced the Key Elements of Results-Based Protection in their work to achieve results and reduce protection risks in humanitarian crises.

Click here to read about the First Place Winner, two Runners-Up, and Honorable Mention. You will also have a chance to hear from the winners first hand and learn about their good practice examples during an upcoming public webinar in March 2021 (date TBD).

Once again, thank you all for engaging in this contest. For questions, please contact Keri Baughman, Senior Project Coordinator, at kbaughman@interaction.org.

2020 Results-Based Protection Good Practice Contest – Winners and Prizes

January 22, 2021

Congratulations to our winners of the 2020 Results-Based Protection Good Practice Contest! In September 2020, for the first time, InterAction launched a contest to collect examples from the humanitarian community demonstrating how they have embraced the Key Elements of Results-Based Protection (RBP) in their work to address protection issues in humanitarian crises. Submissions came from organizations operating across Africa and the Middle East. Each submission indicated promising movement towards working in a results-based way to reduce risk for the affected population. Across the board, the examples submitted mainly focused on ways to collect data and information for better protection analysis. The key to good... Read more →

Global Protection Cluster Events

January 13, 2021

The Global Protection Forum – An example of continuous context-specific protection analysis engages multiple actors to build and promote a culture of analysis that prioritizes continuous analysis, not just data collection. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Global Protection Forum was held virtually. the virtual forum brought together nearly 3,000 experts from 30+ operations to discuss real-time protection challenges and share best practices for protection actors. InterAction had the opportunity to host two sessions; one titled The Role of the Protection Cluster in Fostering Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Response and another titled Preventing GBV in Humanitarian Crises: Advancing... Read more →

Tamarack Institute: Understanding Community-Led Approaches to Community Change

January 13, 2021

The Tamarack Institute’s Community-Led Approach – An example of continuous, context-specific protection analysis based on the language pertaining to a community-based approach. The Tamarack Institute is a Canadian organization that develops and supports collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community issues across the world. Led by Lisa Attygalle, the institute released a publication that looked at the discrepancy in ‘community-led verbiage’ to ensure that communities are not inadvertently acted-upon but rather empowered through leadership. The study consisted of a review of 67 organizations who use the term “Community-Led” to describe the approaches to community change and... Read more →

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