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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.

Results-Based Protection Webinar – Embracing the Protection Outcome Mindset: We All Have a Role to Play

Thursday, June 11, 2020

9:00 – 10:30am (Washington DC GMT-4)

7:00 – 8:30am (Tegucigalpa GMT-6)

2:00 – 3:30pm (Abuja GMT+1)

3:00 – 4:30pm (Geneva GMT+2)

4:00 – 5:30pm (Baghdad GMT+3)

Please join us for a Results-Based Protection webinar to be held on Thursday, June 11, 2020 from 9:00 – 10:30am (Washington DC GMT-4). Expert panelists will respond to issues raised in InterAction’s recent paper, Embracing the Protection Outcome Mindset: We All Have a Role to Play.

Key themes include creating pathways to reduce risk for affected populations, how protection analysis can lead to better decision-making, multi-disciplinary strategies for protection outcomes, and how a diversity of actors can work together to achieve protection outcomes. Experts from diverse perspectives will share their insights on these topics and on the roles that we all have to play in reducing risk.

English-Spanish/Spanish-English interpretation will be available.

To sign-up for the webinar, please REGISTER HERE by Wednesday, June 10, 2020. You must register to receive further instructions to join the webinar.

Open to the public.

For more information, contact Keri Baughman at kbaughman@interaction.org. We look forward to engaging with you!

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