Outcome-Oriented Methods

2nd Practitioners’ Roundtable on Results-Based Protection

On November 16-17, 2015 over 40 practitioners met in Washington, DC to discuss and examine how to better achieve protection outcomes in humanitarian action.

Summary and Analysis Report – Protection Strategy

The objective of the Protection Strategies webinar series and discussion forum was to capture good practice examples of results-based protection strategies. The goal was to shift discussions from the challenges of protection strategies to a more forward-thinking dialogue and an elaboration of the differences in approaches, potential lessons, and proven methodologies that enhance protection strategies.

Slow Death: Life and Death in Syrian Communities under Siege

The report by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) documents life and death in besieged areas of Syria and examines the international response.

Youth & Consequences: Unemployment, Injustice, and Violence

Mercy Corps’ new report, Youth & Consequences: Unemployment, Injustice, and Violence, tackles some of the most persistent assumptions driving youth programming in fragile states. Drawing on interviews and surveys with youth in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Somalia, it finds the principal drivers of political violence are rooted not in poverty, but in experiences of injustice: discrimination, corruption, and abuse by security forces.

Dynamic gridlock: Adaptive Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This case study report, focusing on adaptive humanitarian action in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlights the landscape of humanitarian action in DRC, as well as what flexible, adaptive action looks like in this context, drawing out several relevant connections to Results-Based Protection.

Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting: An Analysis of what CLA Looks Like in Development Programming

This report presents key findings related to Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) through an analysis of 2015 USAID CLA Case Competition submissions.

Protection in the occupied Palestinian territories

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?

How to support community-based protection

This leaflet sums up the main lessons from a series of studies on community-based protection, by the Local to Global Protection Initiative (L2GP).

Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development

This article promotes practitioners’ evaluative thinking to foster more complexity‐aware monitoring and evaluation for learning and adaptive management in complex and dynamic settings.

Local constructions of gender-based violence amongst IDPs in northern Uganda: analysis of archival data collected using a gender- and age-segmented participatory ranking methodology

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.

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