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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

RBP Tip Sheet: Iterative Evaluation Practice for Protection (Tip Sheet 2)

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 first installment of this series of tips focused on establishing “evaluability” for protection interventions, defining the purpose and determining the criteria for success. This tip sheet outlines the next stages in the process – from refining our evaluation questions to considering which methods and approaches can help us learn and adapt in an iterative way.

Published: 2018

Results-Based Protection Tip Sheet: Iterative Evaluation Practice for Protection

In this series of tip sheets, InterAction will highlight helpful considerations, resources, and examples of good practice as it relates to cultivating an evaluative mindset and using evaluation to adapt interventions for protective impact. The first installment of this series of tips focuses on establishing “evaluability” for protection interventions, defining the purpose and determining the criteria for success.

Published: 2018

Report of the Secretary-General’s Internal Review Panel on UN Action in Sri Lanka

The 2012 Independent Review Panel Report on UN’s Sri Lanka Response highlighted inadequate contextual analysis, little investment in local capacities, and lack of strategic orientation towards protection outcomes

Published: 2014

Tool: Matrix of resources on Communicating with Communities and Accountability to Affected Populations

In 2011, the IASC Principals agreed to five Commitments on Accountability to Affected Populations (CAAP) as part of a framework for engagement with communities. The revised version was developed and endorsed by the IASC Principals in November 2017 to reflect essential developments such as the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), the work done by the IASC on inter-agency community-based complaints mechanisms including PSEA, and the importance of meaningful collaboration with local stakeholders, which came out as a priority recommendation from the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit and in the Grand Bargain.

Published: 2018

Series: Ethics and M&E in the Digital Age

These discussions dug deeply into how peace and development programs consider the pressing issues of safety, security, privacy, flexibility, and accessibility in an increasingly tech-enabled world.

Published: 2016