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?
The panelists unpacked some of the different ways that prioritization has been done, shared good practices from the field, and looked at what an ideal model of prioritization might look like.
Throughout May and June 2015, the InterAction Results-Based Protection Program carried out several interviews, hosted an online discussion forum, and held a series of webinars with guest speakers on the development of protection strategies across different contexts.
On January 26th, 2015, the Results-Based Protection Program held a webinar and launched a discussion forum on Communicating with Communities: Analyzing the role of information and the flow of communication with affected populations to address protection outcomes.
On Thursday January 21, 2016 from 9:00-10:00 AM EST, DME for Peace and InterAction hosted a discussion on What Works in Measuring Peacebuilding and Protection Programs with Crisis Affected Populations?
In times of intense conflict and pervasive violence, how do civilians cope? The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), hosted a webinar to discuss its most recent report, “Waiting for No One: Civilian Survival Strategies in Syria,” which details coping strategies used by Syrian civilians during the brutal civil war to ensure their own safety and assist others.
On 28 April 2016, the ICRC hosted a panel discussion at the Humanitarium with some of the leading experts involved in the update of the ICRC study “The Roots of Behaviour in War.” As part of the ICRC’s Conference Cycle on “Generating respect for the law,” the panel accompanied the first meeting of these experts in Geneva, highlighting their specific contributions, hypotheses, and approaches.