Resources

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

New Evidence! What difference does collaborating, learning, and adapting make?

Building off a literature review on the evidence base for collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA), this blog post focuses on new evidence with implications for CLA. The blog post explores creating an organizational culture that values the application of learning iteratively and adaptive management.

Published: 2017

CLA in Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Tanzania

This blog piece features USAID- partner Pact’s collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) initiative for designing a multi-stakeholder learning agenda in their orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) portfolio in Tanzania.

Published: 2018

Leading with Trust: A Development Pathway

Julian Stodd and his team with the Landscape of Trust research project offer insights into how to build reservoirs of trust between individuals, within communities and team, and into organizations themselves. The initiative seeks to gather evidence and learn more about ‘trust’, develop visualization tools and diagnostics, and present practical approaches and guidance for applying this gathered evidence on trust.

Published: 2018

USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Framework

This blog series through USAID’s Learning Lab explores the components of USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Framework, including: 1) organizational culture, 2) effective learning, 3) resources for CLA integration, 4) effective collaboration, 5) supportive processes, and 6) adaptive management.

Published: 2016

Community-Based Protection

Community-based approaches to protection (CBP) have largely been developed by NGOs in complement to the often more legalistic and state-centric work of mandated protection actors. NGOs have long worked within communities in crisis – including as implementing partners for the major UN agencies – so developing community-based protection work built on their pre-existing strength, experience and networks. Whilst there is anecdotal evidence of its success as an approach it does present some specific challenges in terms of demonstrating results.

Published: 2014

People-Driven Response: Power and Participation in Humanitarian Action

This humanitarian value is the starting point of Jeremy Konyndyk’s and Rose Worden’s observation that international humanitarian action is not driven by – or accountable to the people that it exists to serve. In their policy paper published in September 2019, following the convening of an expert workshop in February 2019, by the Center for Global Development (CGD) titled, “People-Driven Response: Power and Participation in Humanitarian Action,” Konyndyk and Worden argue that to uphold such humanitarian value will require deep changes to the humanitarian system’s incentive structures and power dynamics.

Published: 2019

Misunderstanding + misinformation = mistrust

To shed light on establishing effective two-way communication between humanitarian actors and affected people, Translators without Borders (TWB) produced a three-part report in September 2019 titled, “Misunderstanding + misinformation = mistrust: How language barriers reduce access to humanitarian services, reduce the quality of those services and aggravate social exclusion for Rohingya communities,” exploring the role of language in humanitarian access and community relations in Cox’s Bazaar and Sittwe.

Published: 2019