The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Protection Policy was endorsed by the IASC Principals in October 2016. The Policy outlines the overarching framework for how humanitarian actors can fulfill their responsibility to place protection at the center of all aspects of humanitarian action, spelling out core principles, approaches, roles, and responsibilities …
With respect to developing outcome-oriented methods in service of reducing risk in crisis environments, new technologies are enabling faster data collection which can help organizations and the protection community better understand the changing needs and behaviors of affected people; however, these new technologies also present additional challenges — whereby affected …
This podcast focuses on the adaptation component of CLA at the project and organizational levels. The first segment of the episode follows a program focused on capacity building of local staff. Real-time monitoring and continuous analysis of the project achievements against targets/ objectives enabled timely decision-making and pivoting the approach …
Article: Building Real Collaboration into Your Organization Stanford Social Innovation Review, Pratichi Shah, May 2017 This article responds to the growing appreciation of collaboration in terms of achieving organizational “success”, and for results-based protection – achieving protection outcomes. While collaboration is frequently heralded as a critical precondition for success, collaboration …
Supporting exploration of a key element of results-based protection, InterAction hosted a webinar to unpack how a diversity of actors are conducting continuous context-specific analysis of risk as a basis for strategy development, program design, management of security risks, and program implementation. This webinar discussion engaged practitioners from the security, …
Building off of InterAction’s previous mission to Myanmar, which focused on NGO roles in relation to the overall protection leadership, coordination, and strategies within the country, the second mission, conducted jointly with the Protection Information Management (PIM) initiative (co-facilitated by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and UNHCR) examined the methods …