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.