Building on current momentum, InterAction’s Protection Team, with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) seeks to contribute to a strategic and cultural shift within the humanitarian community to better achieve protection outcomes.
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 article as part of the openDemocracy blog series on Evaluation and Human Rights highlights Oxfam’s protection programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), its engagement of Community Protection Committees to identify and address threats and measure milestones of change
On June 29, 2015 at 10am EST, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Sarah Meyer, Associate Director of Research at the Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child (the Africhild Centre). This webinar focused on the experience of the CPC Learning Network and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in developing, piloting and refining a Child Protection Index (CPI), designed to assess child protection system strength in humanitarian settings. This presentation situated the CPI within discussions, frameworks and research on the strengths of child protection systems in the child protection field.
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?
In particular, although it is not a new report, this study on Protection in the occupied Palestinian territories underscores many of the elements of results-based protection.
Having identified that little robust evidence exists related to programmatic
outcomes and impacts of CFS in humanitarian emergencies, a team of
researchers from Columbia University and practitioners from World Vision,
in collaboration with Save the Children, UNICEF, and other members of the
UN GPC Child Protection Working Group, sought to contribute to this
evidence base the first robust estimate of the general impact of CFS as a
humanitarian intervention
InterAction is leading an effort to develop a “Results-Based Evaluation Framework for SGBV Prevention in Humanitarian Crises” in order to track SGBV prevention and demonstrate outcomes in the form of measurably reduced risk. It is expected that such a framework will be practical enough for field-level use across crisis contexts where a diversity of SGBV risks are experienced by diverse population groups.