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Results-based protection is a problem-solving approach used to address complexity and the ever-changing environment that surrounds protection issues in humanitarian action. The approach embraces aspects of systems-practice, design-thinking, foresight analysis and planning, and other comparable methods that emphasize iteration, adaptability, relationships, and interconnectedness. It underscores the importance of starting from the perspective of those experiencing violence, coercion, and deliberate deprivation articulating the desired outcome as reduced risk.

Watch this video as an introduction to results-based protection.

Given the current attention on the protection concerns in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and displacement of those fleeing violence into Bangladesh, these two reports may be relevant. InterAction recently conducted two missions to Myanmar — one focused on the methods and approaches actors use to achieve protection outcomes, one focused on NGO roles in relation to the overall protection leadership, coordination, and strategies within the country. Key findings and recommendations are available in the full mission reports here, and here, respectively.

Webinar: Iterative and Adaptive Humanitarian Action: A Discussion with ALNAP and Practitioners

June 18, 2018

Moderator: Jenny McAvoy, Director of Protection, InterAction Presenter: Alice Obrecht, Senior Research Fellow, ALNAP Panelists: Sarah Henly-Shepard, Senior Advisor for Climate Change and Resilience, Mercy Corps Katherine Kramer, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Advisor, Geneva Call Monica Stephen, Conflict and Security Advisor, Saferworld Building on ALNAP’s work on evaluating humanitarian innovation and emerging research on adaptive humanitarian action, this webinar aimed to: explore why adaptive management is important for humanitarian actors; examine supportive conditions and the challenges actors face in trying to adapt in complex and dynamic crises; and identify outcome-oriented methods and ways of working that... Read more →

RBP Update – May 2018

June 18, 2018

Resource: Professional Standards for Protection Work (3rd Edition)

May 31, 2018

The Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) has been published and was launched in March 2018. These encompass a set of minimum but essential standards for ensuring protection work is safe and effective, reflecting shared thinking and agreed Standards among humanitarian and human rights practitioners. The third edition is responsive to changes that have occurred in the environment in which protection actors operate. For example, comprehensive guidelines on protection information management have been incorporated in Chapter 6 ‘Managing data and information for protection outcomes’ which speak to the rapid developments in information communication technology and concurrent growth in data-protection... Read more →

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