Resources

Preventing Household Violence: Promising Strategies for Humanitarian Settings

The main objective of this review is to use a holistic lens to draw on best practices that have been used in humanitarian context which might be applicable to household violence prevention. The paper reviewed a total of 43 interventions and puts forward a set of recommendations that are pertinent to RBP in the field of household violence prevention in humanitarian settings.

Published: 2017

Professional Standards for Protection Work (3rd Edition)

The Professional Standards for Protection Work (third edition) has been published and was launched in March 2018. These encompass a set of minimum but essential standards for ensuring protection work is safe and effective, reflecting shared thinking and agreed Standards among humanitarian and human rights practitioners.

Tips to Adaptively Manage in Dynamic Contexts

This note from USAID collects a few tips targeted at those funding and managing projects/partnerships for how to proactively cultivate an environment that enables CLA to flourish.

Published: 2018

DFID scoping study: What works in protection and how do we know?

Published: 2013

GBV Prevention Evaluation Framework Advisory Committee: Norms for Engagement

The Advisory Committee is committed to upholding and respecting the following norms throughout the duration of the project (2019-2021) and will therefore intentionally reflect on norms when making decisions and providing strategic direction and technical input.

Published: 2019

Start Where You Are

Published: 2019

GBV Prevention Evaluation Framework Advisory Committee

With the generous support from the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), InterAction’s project, ‘Strengthening Ways of Working for Protection Outcomes’, aims to facilitate the collaborative development of a results-based evaluation framework that will guide approaches to measure GBV prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in crisis contexts.

Published: 2019

Working Paper: Changing Humanitarian Action?

This working paper, prepared in advance of the Annual ALNAP meeting in Sweden, primarily attempts to reassess the assumptions of how ‘change initiatives’ actually transform the humanitarian ‘system’, seeking to clarify both how change happens and how change can be supported.

Published: 2017

Results-Based Protection Cheat Sheet: Key Terms & Concepts

This cheat sheet is intended to serve as a reference guide for key terms and concepts frequently used when talking about results-based approaches to protection (RBP).

Published: 2019

RBP Tip Sheet: Iterative Evaluation for Protection (Part 3)

In this series of tip sheets, InterAction highlights helpful considerations, resources, and examples of good practice to cultivate an evaluative mindset and using evaluation to adapt interventions for protective impact. The previous installments in this series of tips focused on establishing “evaluability” for protection interventions, defining the purpose and determining the criteria for success, and selecting evaluation approaches and methods. Iterative evaluation practice requires an enabling environment that supports feedback loops, whereby analysis and recommendations feed into decision-making and programmatic and strategic adaptation. This final tip sheet highlights a few considerations for the resources, processes, and organizational culture which support iterative evaluation for protection.

Published: 2018