2018

Webinar: What’s Missing? Adding Context to the Urban Response Toolbox

This webinar will present key findings from ALNAP’s new study ‘What’s Missing? Adding Context to the Urban Response Toolbox’ and feature presentations from two organizations currently using context-specific analysis tools.

Webinar: Nigeria turns purple! Innovative approaches to creating and measuring social norms change: experience from V4C in Nigeria

This webinar explored the social norms marketing approach used by the Voices for Change initiative to inspire young people’s attitudinal and behavior change towards women’s role in household decision-making, women’s leadership, and violence against women and girls in Nigeria. The Voices for Change team shared insights around the design of the approach and the monitoring and evaluation system developed to track the audience response to the mass-media communications, changes in attitudes and behaviors throughout the period of implementation, and how the change happened.

Webinar: Language in Protective Humanitarian Action: Practical lessons from Myanmar/Bangladesh and Northeast Nigeria

This webinar discussion aimed to explore the implications of multilingual communication in protective humanitarian action. The webinar engaged Translators without Borders and several practitioners working in protection to discuss how the languages and formats of communication can impact affected populations. Drawing on case examples from forced displacement situations in Northeast Nigeria and Myanmar/Bangladesh, the discussion explored steps humanitarian actors can take to improve effective two-way communication

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.

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’

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.

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.

TAAP Toolkit and Guide for Inclusive Development

The TAAP: Transforming Agency, Access, and Power initiative is a resource of analytical frameworks and practical tools for practitioners, organizations, and policymakers looking to integrate social inclusion into program design, implementation and learning. Of these practical tools is the TAAP Toolkit and Guide for Inclusive Development, which aims to ensure that social inclusion and inclusion sensitivity are integrated into every phase of the project life cycle.

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