This webinar discussion aimed to explore the implications of multilingual communication in protective humanitarian action. The webinar engaged Translators without Borders and several practitioners working in protection to discuss how the languages and formats of communication can impact affected populations. Drawing on case examples from forced displacement situations in Northeast Nigeria and Myanmar/Bangladesh, the discussion explored steps humanitarian actors can take to improve effective two-way communication
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 support continuous reflection and using information gathered to inform more responsive interventions.
This podcast episode focuses on what effective collaboration looks like. While collaboration yields many benefits desirable outputs for problem-solving, including “surfacing the things we don’t know”, bringing different perspectives and capacities to bear, and fostering trust which can live beyond a particular project or initiative, the podcast also highlighted some pitfalls to ‘over-collaboration’
In September 2019, the Collective Impact Forum (FSG), in partnership with New Profit, held a 60-minute webinar discussion on Examining Power Dynamics in Systems Change to interrogate Power Dynamics and the unique role it plays within the framework of systems change.
On June 2nd 2021, the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) organized a launch event of the report titled Towards Principled Humanitarian Action in Conflict Contexts – Understanding the Role of Partnerships: Voices from Nigeria and South Sudan.