Resources

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

Terms of Reference: RBP Mission to Nigeria – November 2019

InterAction has undertaken two Protection-focused missions to Nigeria in the past 18 months, focused on identifying ways that the humanitarian response can work to reduce risk. This trip is meant to build on the previous missions and will focus on the challenges of protection analysis and decision-making in an increasingly complex context. This mission supports the field-level component of InterAction’s SIDA-funded project, Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes.

Published: 2020

The Importance of Champions: A Change Management Manifesto

InterAction’s RBP Field Support: Summer 2020 Update

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, InterAction’s RBP team answers some questions about its progress and how it envisions carrying out its activities for the remainder of its two-year project called “Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes” which is made possible through funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

Published: 2020

How Change Happens (or doesn’t) in the Humanitarian System

This blog reflects on a paper written by Paul Knox Clarke and proposes some gaps in the analysis and areas for further enquiry.

Published: 2017