In light of emerging initiatives to design strategies to prevent sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), this presents a unique opportunity to apply results-based approaches to SGBV prevention and to develop guidance related to measuring results and outcomes. While there are some notable efforts underway, practitioners struggle to measure the results and outcomes of prevention programs.
InterAction has undertaken two Protection-focused missions to Nigeria in the past 18 months, focused on identifying ways that the humanitarian response can work to reduce risk. This trip is meant to build on the previous missions and will focus on the challenges of protection analysis and decision-making in an increasingly complex context. This mission supports the field-level component of InterAction’s SIDA-funded project, Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes.
This blog reflects on a paper written by Paul Knox Clarke and proposes some gaps in the analysis and areas for further enquiry.
Building off a literature review on the evidence base for collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA), this blog post focuses on new evidence with implications for CLA. The blog post explores creating an organizational culture that values the application of learning iteratively and adaptive management.
This blog piece features USAID- partner Pact’s collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) initiative for designing a multi-stakeholder learning agenda in their orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) portfolio in Tanzania.
Julian Stodd and his team with the Landscape of Trust research project offer insights into how to build reservoirs of trust between individuals, within communities and team, and into organizations themselves. The initiative seeks to gather evidence and learn more about ‘trust’, develop visualization tools and diagnostics, and present practical approaches and guidance for applying this gathered evidence on trust.
This blog series through USAID’s Learning Lab explores the components of USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework, including: 1) organizational culture, 2) effective learning, 3) resources for CLA integration, 4) effective collaboration, 5) supportive processes, and 6) adaptive management.
To shed light on establishing effective two-way communication between humanitarian actors and affected people, Translators without Borders (TWB) produced a three-part report in September 2019 titled, “Misunderstanding + misinformation = mistrust: How language barriers reduce access to humanitarian services, reduce the quality of those services and aggravate social exclusion for Rohingya communities,” exploring the role of language in humanitarian access and community relations in Cox’s Bazaar and Sittwe.
Following years of learning and active participation in developing its work on power and power analysis, the Carnegie UK Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation developed a practical guide designed for people, within organizations, networks or community groups, who want to explore power in relation to achieving change in the interests of the communities with whom they are working.