Continuous Context-Specific Protection Analysis

Planning with Evidence: Cutting edge practices

Evidence is essential for effective, ethical, and accountable humanitarian action. But how should it be used in planning humanitarian programming? ALNAP was joined by practitioners from four organizations to explore groundbreaking work, challenges they’ve faced, and the practical relevance of tools for humanitarian policy and programming staff.

Supporting the Field – Results-Based Protection in Colombia

In April 2016, InterAction visited Colombia to identify and document the key elements of results-based protection in practice. The visit led to key recommendations for actors in Colombia to strengthen the prevention and response to the use and recruitment of children by armed groups.

Thursday Talk – Putting the local first – Learning to adapt when measuring change

On July 21st the M&E Thursday Talk series was hosted by Tom Gillhespy & Laura Thisted of Peace Direct who led a discussion on Putting the Local First: Learning to adapt when measuring change. This report aims to show how the M&E reporting of local partners to donor organizations helps or hinders how programming can deal with changing contexts.

Event: Evaluating humanitarian action: ask the experts

For the last six years, ALNAP has been developing the first Evaluating Humanitarian Action Guide to help humanitarian actors increase the quality and usefulness of evaluating findings and results. This event launched the Guide and looks at some of the key issues in evaluating humanitarian action today, such as how we can better involve people affected by crises, the value of independent evaluations, and how to encourage uptake.

Webinar: Continuous Context-Specific Analysis: Collaborating with Protection, Security, and Peacebuilding Actors to Support Informed Humanitarian Action

Supporting the 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.

Webinar: What is Results-Based Protection?

To complement and contextualize the launch of the Results-Based Protection video, InterAction also hosted a webinar discussion with RBP Steering Group members and practitioners to unpack what RBP is, how it diverges from standard approaches, and what the practical application looks like in humanitarian practice.

Event/ Webinar: Contested Evidence: The challenges and limitations of evidence-based approaches in humanitarian action

As part of Humanitarian Evidence Week, PHAP convened an online panel discussion with evaluators and practitioners speaking to evidence-based approaches in humanitarian action.

Webinar: Principles-Focused Evaluation – Featuring Mark Cabaj and Michael Quinn Patton

On January 23rd, the Tamarack Institute held a conversation with Michael Quinn Patton exploring his latest book – Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE, released in November 2017. The webinar explored the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and its relevance and application in a range of settings.

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