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On its mission to strengthen humanitarian action through evaluation and learning, ALNAP carried out the following activities.

Researched and published a variety of resources

Studies:
- More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action (April 2016)
- Summary: More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action (April 2016)
- Stepping back: Understanding cities and their systems (October 2016)
- Arabic translation, Spanish translation

Working Papers:
- How can we improve humanitarian coordination across a response? (June 2016)
- How can we better involve national actors in humanitarian coordination? (June 2016)
- How can we improve decision-making in humanitarian coordination? (June 2016)
- How to make the most of information management in coordination? (June 2016)
- Syria Crisis 2016 Monitoring and Evaluation Peer-Learning Workshop Summary (June 2016) - Available only to Members
- Improving humanitarian coordination: Themes and recommendations from the ALNAP meeting ‘Working together to improve humanitarian coordination’ (November 2016)
- Improving humanitarian coordination: Executive summary and recommendations (November 2016)
- Evaluating humanitarian innovation (January 2017)
- Changing humanitarian action? Background Paper, 31st ALNAP Annual Meeting (February 2017)
- Discussion starter, 31st ALNAP Annual Meeting (February 2017)
- Monitoring humanitarian innovation (March 2017)
- The State of the Humanitarian System 2018: Inception report (March 2017)

Case studies:
- Learning from exposure: How decades of disaster and armed conflict have shaped Colombian NGOs (May 2016) - Spanish translation
- We know our wounds: National and local organisations involved in humanitarian response in Lebanon (May 2016) - Arabic translation

Tools, guidelines and methodologies:
- Evaluating protection in humanitarian action: Decision-making processes, common issues and challenges (June 2016)
- Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide (October 2016)

Videos:
- How to make the most of information management in humanitarian coordination? (July 2016)
- How can we improve decision-making in humanitarian coordination? (July 2016)
- How can we better involve national civil society in humanitarian coordination? (July 2016)
- How can humanitarians better coordinate at the subnational level? (July 2016)
- How can we improve inter-cluster humanitarian coordination? (July 2016)
- Story in 5: Deepti Sastry, Start Network (March 2017)
- Story in 5: John Borton, The Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Jouni Kangasniemi, Finnish Education Reform (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Koroosh Raffii, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Laura James, Field Ready (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Lizzie McLeod, Mercy Corps (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Maya Mailer, Oxfam’s Campaign in Yemen (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Michela Luzzi, Cash Transfers in the Pacific Islands (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Paula Brennan, Merging Merlin and Save the Children (March 2017)
- Story in 5: Sheree Bennett, Outcomes and Evidence Framework (March 2017)
- High level panel: Changing Humanitarian Action? (March 2017)
- ALNAP’s 31st Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation by John Mitchell (March 2017)

Other:
- Shelter and settlements response in urban emergencies (July 2016)
- Annual Report 2015-2016 (September 2016)
- Monitoring of humanitarian action infosheet (November 2016)

Shared knowledge through networks, events and meetings

• Hosted 11 events, four of which were at ODI and seven of which were in partnership with ALNAP Members
• Held nine webinars
• Facilitated two Communities of Practice (Humanitarian Evaluation and Urban Response), with a combined total of 3,831 Members from 142 countries
• Hosted two launch events: Innovating humanitarian action: More than just luck (April 2016) and Evaluating humanitarian action: Ask the experts (October 2016)
• Launched ‘Stepping back: Understanding cities and their systems’ at Habitat III (October 2016)
• Hosted a two-day meeting on ‘Working together to improve humanitarian coordination’ (June 2016)
• Ran a consultation on ‘Managing protection strategies: Measurability, adaptability, and evaluability’ (December 2016)
• Ran the ALNAP Evaluation Skills-Building Day (February 2017)
• Hosted the 31st ALNAP Annual Meeting on ‘Change in humanitarian action’ and Members’ Day with Sida (February 2017)
• Held two side events and an exhibition booth at the World Humanitarian Summit (May 2016)
• Attended and presented at 29 ALNAP Member and non-Member events

Strengthened the Network’s knowledge management function

• Continued to build up the Humanitarian Evaluation, Learning and Performance Library (HELP) – the world’s largest and most complete repository of evaluations and learning related to humanitarian action, by over 15%, to hold 12,565 resources
• Grew the Urban Resource Portal to 2,292 documents
• Continued to add documents to the Syria Portal, a single site for evaluations and Lessons Papers related to the Syria regional emergency (now containing 1,402 resources)

Communicated Member research, events and opinions

• Updated the website, which received 196,678 users between April 2016 and March 2017
• Published seven blog posts, including two by guest bloggers
• Regularly tweeted Member events and publications to over 8,095 Twitter followers
• Shared and promoted Member publications through our fortnightly newsletter to over 11,500 subscribers and on the homepage of the ALNAP website

Collaborated with other initiatives

• The Secretariat team participated actively in inter-agency initiatives and advisory groups

ALNAP was joined by four new Members. The total number of Members as of 31 March 2017 was 99.