Resources

Webinar: What’s Missing? Adding Context to the Urban Response Toolbox

This webinar will present key findings from ALNAP’s new study ‘What’s Missing? Adding Context to the Urban Response Toolbox’ and feature presentations from two organizations currently using context-specific analysis tools.

Published: 2018

Webinar: Nigeria turns purple! Innovative approaches to creating and measuring social norms change: experience from V4C in Nigeria

This webinar explored the social norms marketing approach used by the Voices for Change initiative to inspire young people’s attitudinal and behavior change towards women’s role in household decision-making, women’s leadership, and violence against women and girls in Nigeria. The Voices for Change team shared insights around the design of the approach and the monitoring and evaluation system developed to track the audience response to the mass-media communications, changes in attitudes and behaviors throughout the period of implementation, and how the change happened.

Published: 2018

Webinar: Language in Protective Humanitarian Action: Practical lessons from Myanmar/Bangladesh and Northeast Nigeria

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

Published: 2018

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION: A Results-Based Evaluation Framework

The GBV PEF is a set of guiding approaches aimed at helping practitioners make better decisions in their analysis, program design, and measurement such that GBV prevention outcomes can ultimately be evaluated. It has been built on the foundation of the Results-Based Protection framework developed by InterAction and endorsed by a broad set of humanitarian actors, including international non-governmental organizations, ICRC, and international organizations.

Published: 2021

Webinar: Iterative and Adaptive Humanitarian Action: A Discussion with ALNAP and Practitioners

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.

Published: 2018

Podcast: Meeting Strategically: How to Collaborate, But Not Too Much (Inside Out Episode 3)

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’

Published: 2018

What do we mean by results?

Published: 2014

One-Page Overview: Field Support for Collective Strategies (2019-2021)

Published: 2019

One-Page Overview: Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes (2019-2021)

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.

Published: 2019

One-Page Overview: Development of a Results-Based Evaluation Framework for the Prevention of GBV (2019-2021)

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.

Published: 2019