In this series of tip sheets, InterAction will highlight helpful considerations, resources, and examples of good practice as it relates to cultivating an evaluative mindset and using evaluation to adapt interventions for protective impact. The first installment of this series of tips focuses on establishing “evaluability” for protection interventions, defining the purpose and determining the criteria for success.
The 2012 Independent Review Panel Report on UN’s Sri Lanka Response highlighted inadequate contextual analysis, little investment in local capacities, and lack of strategic orientation towards protection outcomes
These discussions dug deeply into how peace and development programs consider the pressing issues of safety, security, privacy, flexibility, and accessibility in an increasingly tech-enabled world.
The Results-Based Protection Program continues to explore key components in current practice to better adjust and refine the approach and guidance needed to support both program and situation monitoring of a response.
What does it mean to do a historical, Cultural, and Contextual analysis to understand the threat, vulnerability, and capacity? InterAction aims to respond to this question noting why it is necessary and how it can be done.
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.’
Led by Lisa Attygalle, the Tamarack institute released a publication that looked at the discrepancy in ‘community-led verbiage’ to ensure that communities are not inadvertently acted-upon but rather empowered through leadership.
The Child Resilience Alliance (CRA) is a group of senior partners dedicated to children’s protection and well-being in adverse environments. The group, in September 2018, released a 4-section toolkit to support community-led approaches to addressing protection risks affecting children.
Saferworld has developed an approach that explains the principles underpinning community security interventions, and suggests practical implementation strategies that draw on our work and the work of a select number of agencies.