Resources

2nd Practitioners’ Roundtable on Results-Based Protection

On November 16-17, 2015 over 40 practitioners met in Washington, DC to discuss and examine how to better achieve protection outcomes in humanitarian action.

Published: 2015

Summary and Analysis Report – Protection Strategy

The objective of the Protection Strategies webinar series and discussion forum was to capture good practice examples of results-based protection strategies. The goal was to shift discussions from the challenges of protection strategies to a more forward-thinking dialogue and an elaboration of the differences in approaches, potential lessons, and proven methodologies that enhance protection strategies.

Published: 2013

Independent Whole-of-System Review on Protection in the context of Humanitarian Action

This report marks the first IASC-commissioned independent review of how the collective humanitarian system addresses protection. It provides insight into the ability and commitment of humanitarian actors and the humanitarian system to effectively counter behaviors that pose the biggest threats to life for people affected by crisis.

Published: 2015

Slow Death: Life and Death in Syrian Communities under Siege

The report by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) documents life and death in besieged areas of Syria and examines the international response.

Published: 2015

Youth & Consequences: Unemployment, Injustice, and Violence

Mercy Corps’ new report, Youth & Consequences: Unemployment, Injustice, and Violence, tackles some of the most persistent assumptions driving youth programming in fragile states. Drawing on interviews and surveys with youth in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Somalia, it finds the principal drivers of political violence are rooted not in poverty, but in experiences of injustice: discrimination, corruption, and abuse by security forces.

Published: 2015

Designing for Results Summary & Analysis Report

In December 2014, the Results-Based Protection Program hosted its pilot online discussion forum, Designing for Results: The top five characteristics of a protection program designed to bring about results.

Published: 2014

2013 Global Protection Cluster Funding Study

Published: 2013

Dynamic gridlock: Adaptive Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This case study report, focusing on adaptive humanitarian action in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlights the landscape of humanitarian action in DRC, as well as what flexible, adaptive action looks like in this context, drawing out several relevant connections to Results-Based Protection.

Published: 2018

Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting: An Analysis of what CLA Looks Like in Development Programming

This report presents key findings related to Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) through an analysis of 2015 USAID CLA Case Competition submissions.

Published: 2017

ADAPTing Aid: Lessons from six case studies

This report, a collaborative initiative from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Mercy Corps, explores what adaptive management looks like in practice, what impact it can have on programs, and how to best support this approach.

Published: 2016