Resources

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

Examining Power Dynamics in Systems Change

In September 2019, the Collective Impact Forum (FSG), in partnership with New Profit, held a 60-minute webinar discussion on Examining Power Dynamics in Systems Change to interrogate Power Dynamics and the unique role it plays within the framework of systems change.

Published: 2019

Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Social Change

Following years of learning and active participation in developing its work on power and power analysis, the Carnegie UK Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation developed a practical guide designed for people, within organizations, networks or community groups, who want to explore power in relation to achieving change in the interests of the communities with whom they are working.

When protecting civilians in humanitarian crises, how do we measure success?

This article as part of the openDemocracy blog series on Evaluation and Human Rights highlights Oxfam’s protection programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), its engagement of Community Protection Committees to identify and address threats and measure milestones of change

Published: 2015

Trapped in Conflict: Evaluating Scenarios to Assist At-Risk Civilians

In April 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross and InterAction convened a closed-door roundtable to discuss options for assisting civilians trapped in the midst of hostilities, cut off from essential aid, or facing imminent or ongoing risk of targeted attacks.

Published: 2015

Measuring the Strength of Child Protection Systems in Humanitarian Settings: a Study in Uganda and Rwanda

On June 29, 2015 at 10am EST, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Sarah Meyer, Associate Director of Research at the Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child (the Africhild Centre). This webinar focused on the experience of the CPC Learning Network and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in developing, piloting and refining a Child Protection Index (CPI), designed to assess child protection system strength in humanitarian settings. This presentation situated the CPI within discussions, frameworks and research on the strengths of child protection systems in the child protection field.

Published: 2015