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.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our two-year project, Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). As a continuation of InterAction’s work on Results-Based Protection (RBP), this project aims to contribute to a strategic and cultural shift within the humanitarian community to achieve protection outcomes of reduced risk. The components of this project are two-fold:

1. Provide continuous and comprehensive support to NGOs in Nigeria, Myanmar, and a third country (TBD) in order to support the uptake and application of results-based approaches to protection among NGO staff working in humanitarian crisis, and

2. Facilitate a collaborative effort to develop a Results-Based Evaluation Framework for the Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and an action plan for field-based pilots.

InterAction’s Protection team seeks to address current gaps in the humanitarian community around the need for more relevant good practice examples and practical know-how in applying results-based approaches to protection. As such, documentation of lessons learned and good practice will be a significant project output from both project components providing a platform for development and sharing of tools, methods, and strategies for implementation of results-based protection work.

If you would like to submit your organization’s lessons learned and good practice in applying results-based approaches to protection, please contact Keri Baughman, at kbaughman@interaction.org. For any questions about this project, please contact Jessica Lenz, Senior Technical Advisor-Protection, at jlenz@interaction.org.

Contest: Results-Based Protection Good Practice Examples

September 15, 2020

Attention, all protection enthusiasts (You too, gender-based violence; child protection; mine action; and housing, land, & property experts)! For the first time, InterAction is pleased to invite members of our broad community to participate in a contest to collect examples of results-based approaches to protection in practice! The contest opens on September 15 and closes on December 15, 2020. Winners and prizes will be announced on InterAction’s RBP website on January 22, 2021. InterAction’s work on Results-Based Protection (RBP) started in 2012 and has spanned the globe, involving NGOs, national and local civil society, the U.N., and donors all working... Read more →

RBP Contest – Assessment Criteria

September 15, 2020

We World GVC’s Community Protection Approach

September 14, 2020

We World GVC’s Community Protection Approach – An example of analysis tools that provide a basis for multi-disciplinary strategies We World GVC is an international NGO that drives and implements a Community Protection Approach (CPA). The CPA is a community engagement and empowerment instrument to design Integrated Protection Programs (e.g. multi-disciplinary strategies) and provide operational tools to facilitate coordination and complementarity between different aid instruments in order to find sustainable solutions to a given population’s needs and problems. The CPA is built on many years of research and testing and can be tailored depending on the context. (Community Protection Approach... Read more →

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