The Child Resilience Alliance (CRA) is a group of senior partners dedicated to children’s protection and well-being in adverse environments. The group, in September 2018, released a 4-section toolkit to support community-led approaches to addressing protection risks affecting children.
Saferworld has developed an approach that explains the principles underpinning community security interventions, and suggests practical implementation strategies that draw on our work and the work of a select number of agencies.
InterAction’s Director, Jenny McAvoy details three missing pieces of protection in the humanitarian puzzle.
In efforts to cultivate an environment for iterative learning and move us away from “success” and “failure” thinking, the Start Network reflects on recent cases under the Network’s Crisis Anticipation Window, which illuminated valuable lessons in terms of analysis, adaptation, and risk.
With the financial support of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), InterAction commissioned an independent evaluation of its RBP program. The evaluation reviews the RBP program against its strategic objective to determine the relevance and effectiveness of InterAction’s varying RBP activities and efforts.
Between June and August of 2020, InterAction held a virtual practitioners’ roundtable, a series of five online sessions titled Getting Practical with Prevention: What does it take to reduce risk?
InterAction hosted a two-day workshop with the GBV Prevention Evaluation Framework (PEF) Advisory Committee on January 23 and 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. The overall purpose was to explore the findings of the 2019 GBV Prevention Scoping Exercise in more depth, work through critical issues and determine the next steps for the development of an evaluation framework. This workshop concludes the first phase of the GBV PEF project.
On October 14-15, 2018, the co-chairs of the Centrality of Protection Task Team, OCHA, and InterAction supported the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) to convene a workshop to take stock of the implementation of the IASC Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action (2016) and the IASC Principals Statement on the Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action (2013).
InterAction conducted field research in Erbil, Mosul, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Anbar, and Karbala from 23 July-9 August 2018 to assess the most pressing protection issues and how they can be addressed by a whole-of-system response in line with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Protection Policy.
Building on the Humanitarian Policy Group’s (HPG) work on remaking humanitarian action for the modern era, HPG, along with their partner ThinkPlace, initiated a design thinking experiment to capture ideas and discussions of major stakeholders to reimagine humanitarian action.