Culture, Systems, and Resources

Collective Approaches to Communication and Community Engagement: Models, Challenges and Ways forward

To better understand the lack of accountability within the humanitarian system, the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) published a report titled ‘Collective Approaches to Communication and Community Engagement: Models, Challenges and Ways forward.’

Culture and People – Shifting Mindsets: Creating a More Flexible Humanitarian Response

Following its webinar last year on Adaptability and Flexibility within the humanitarian system, ALNAP released a report titled Shifting Mindsets: Creating a More Flexible Humanitarian Response. The report, broken into five sections, attempts to address the struggle that humanitarian agencies have grappled with when it comes to adapting context, changing the type and quantity of support at the right time, or responding quickly and appropriately to unexpected crises or challenges.

Protection’s Missing Pieces

InterAction’s Director, Jenny McAvoy details three missing pieces of protection in the humanitarian puzzle.

Independent Evaluation of InterAction’s Results-Based Protection Program

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.

Getting Practical with Prevention: What does it take to reduce risk?

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?

2020 Annual RBP Briefing Paper and Webinar – Embracing the Protection Outcome Mindset: We All Have a Role to Play

This paper shares InterAction’s recent observations putting results-based protection into practice and recommends areas for greater investment by humanitarian actors.

Preparing the ground for better dialogue, better information, better action: learning from preparedness

his report distills the good practice and learning gleaned from the 3-years of implementation in Bangladesh, South Sudan, and the Philippines, on methods for engaging communities and collaborative platforms for working toward this end.

Making Operational Decisions in Humanitarian Response: A Literature Review

This literature review takes a deeper dive to explore the contexts where humanitarian leaders are expected to make decisions, the range of decision-making approaches which exist, and the effectiveness of these approaches in humanitarian crises.

Report: Adaptive Management: What it means for CSOs

This “introductory paper” from Bond provides insight into how CSOs can effectively use adaptive management, defined as a flexible exploratory approach to programming and development designed to address complex contexts in which knowledge of causation is low.

RESULTS-BASED PROTECTION REPORT: Field Mission to 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.

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