Resources

Planning with Evidence: Cutting edge practices

Evidence is essential for effective, ethical, and accountable humanitarian action. But how should it be used in planning humanitarian programming? ALNAP was joined by practitioners from four organizations to explore groundbreaking work, challenges they’ve faced, and the practical relevance of tools for humanitarian policy and programming staff.

Published: 2016

Supporting the Field – Results-Based Protection in Colombia

In April 2016, InterAction visited Colombia to identify and document the key elements of results-based protection in practice. The visit led to key recommendations for actors in Colombia to strengthen the prevention and response to the use and recruitment of children by armed groups.

Published: 2016

Thursday Talk – Putting the local first – Learning to adapt when measuring change

On July 21st the M&E Thursday Talk series was hosted by Tom Gillhespy & Laura Thisted of Peace Direct who led a discussion on Putting the Local First: Learning to adapt when measuring change. This report aims to show how the M&E reporting of local partners to donor organizations helps or hinders how programming can deal with changing contexts.

Published: 2016

Event: Evaluating humanitarian action: ask the experts

For the last six years, ALNAP has been developing the first Evaluating Humanitarian Action Guide to help humanitarian actors increase the quality and usefulness of evaluating findings and results. This event launched the Guide and looks at some of the key issues in evaluating humanitarian action today, such as how we can better involve people affected by crises, the value of independent evaluations, and how to encourage uptake.

Published: 2016

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