Resources

Event: Collaboration through storytelling: lessons from Nepal

This event followed a screening of the documentary, “On Shifting Ground”, which provides a first-hand appraisal of the way six humanitarian organizations responded to the earthquake in Nepal. The Hilton Prize Coalition Storytelling Program provided an opportunity for humanitarians to reflect on the response, identify lessons learned around community collaboration for preparedness and resiliency.

Published: 2016

Webinar: Community engagement to strengthen social cohesion and child protection in Chad and Burundi

Published: 2016

Webinar: The IASC Protection Policy – What does it mean for NGOs?

This webinar explores the background and content of the recently adopted IASC Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Published: 2016

Webinar: Continuous Context-Specific Analysis: Collaborating with Protection, Security, and Peacebuilding Actors to Support Informed Humanitarian Action

Supporting the exploration of a key element of results-based protection, InterAction hosted a webinar to unpack how a diversity of actors are conducting continuous context-specific analysis of risk as a basis for strategy development, program design, management of security risks, and program implementation.

Published: 2017

Webinar: What is Results-Based Protection?

To complement and contextualize the launch of the Results-Based Protection video, InterAction also hosted a webinar discussion with RBP Steering Group members and practitioners to unpack what RBP is, how it diverges from standard approaches, and what the practical application looks like in humanitarian practice.

Published: 2017

Event/ Webinar: Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves

n October 2, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) convened a panel discussion on the new research within Oliver Kaplan’s book, Resisting War, exploring how communities use cohesion and social structures to non-violently influence armed groups. It explores how organization of civilians can implement nonviolent strategies to pressure government troops, or paramilitary or insurgent fighters to limit violence, through cases from Colombia, with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines, Kaplan’s research shows in some cases, where communities are more organized, there is a 25% regression in violence.

Published: 2017

Event/ Webinar: Contested Evidence: The challenges and limitations of evidence-based approaches in humanitarian action

As part of Humanitarian Evidence Week, PHAP convened an online panel discussion with evaluators and practitioners speaking to evidence-based approaches in humanitarian action.

Published: 2017

Webinar: Principles-Focused Evaluation – Featuring Mark Cabaj and Michael Quinn Patton

On January 23rd, the Tamarack Institute held a conversation with Michael Quinn Patton exploring his latest book – Principles-Focused Evaluation: The GUIDE, released in November 2017. The webinar explored the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and its relevance and application in a range of settings.

Published: 2018

Webinar: Building Readiness Through Collective Impact Feasibility Framework

Published: 2018

Event: Practicing Safe Data: A Roundtable Discussion

Given this growing emphasis on data protection and the responsible use of data, InterAction will host Practicing Safe Data: A Roundtable Discussion to delve deeper into these topics.
At this roundtable discussion, InterAction will explore the frontier of responsible data, data protection, and compliance with data regulation, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Published: 2018