Outcome-Oriented Methods

Using Theatre to Share Evaluation Findings with a Wider Community

In a recent blog post with the American Evaluation Association, the University of British Columbia Learning Lab shared their Voices UP! community theatre approach to make the results of a recent evaluation accessible to a broader community audience.

Why Learning from Failure is Key to Anticipating Humanitarian Crises

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.

Community-Based Protection

This blog explores what community-based protection means and how it relates to Results-Based Protection.

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?

Moving Forward Together, Leaving No One Behind: From Stigmatization to Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Iraq

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.

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.

“We Hope and We Fight”: Youth, Communities, and Violence in Mali

In their September 2017 report, Mercy Corps and Think Peace (through a series of interviews with youth members of armed groups, non-violent youth, and community leaders in Mali) aim to trace the pathways that youth take to armed groups, as well as the factors that enable others to resist using violence.

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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