The L2GP studies explore how people living in areas affected by natural disasters and complex emergencies understand ‘protection’ – what do people value, and how do they go about protecting themselves, their families and communities?
This leaflet sums up the main lessons from a series of studies on community-based protection, by the Local to Global Protection Initiative (L2GP).
This report from the Center for Civilians in Conflict explores the perspectives and experiences of civilians in conflict-affected countries. The report consists of an analytical overview and four case studies in Bosnia, Libya, Gaza, and Somalia.
This article, published in BMC Conflict and Health reports on a secondary analysis of archived data collected as part of formative qualitative work – using a group participatory ranking methodology (PRM) – informing research on the prevalence of GBV amongst internally displaced people (IDPs) in four camps in northern Uganda in 2006.
This introduction to the second Special Issue on Children and Armed Conflict in the Journal of Peace Psychology aims to outline a collective vision of the mental health, psychosocial, and peacebuilding interventions needed to support war-affected children by developing a framework consisting of three central pillars: comprehensiveness, sustainability, and “do no harm”.
While much focus is being placed on international laws, policies, and standards of data protection and data security, policy alone is not enough. This training pack recognizes the need to practice responsible data management (RDM), and in many cases, change our organizational culture, individual attitudes, and behavior as to how we handle data.
This USAID Learning Lab podcast focuses on the learning component of Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) at the project and organizational levels.
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 the capacity building of local staff. The second segment focused on how processes and ensuring feedback loops can facilitate adaptation. The final segment follows a resilience project in the Sahel that intentionally planned adaptive activities from the outset of the project
“Constructive deconstruction: future humanitarian action” is a podcast series exploring ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group’s two years of research on re-imagining the humanitarian system, using design thinking to look at the humanitarian system through the perspective of the end-user.
In this 90-minute online session, panelists explored the link between efficient humanitarian response and funding. What makes the humanitarian response more efficient, and how does this lead to more efficient use of available resources? Are donors adopting best practices for financing and for practical improvements that will facilitate your work? Will increased efficiency help bridge the humanitarian-development divide? And does increased efficiency comes with a price in terms of a principled approach?