1. Introduction and overall progress Work on the second full edition of the State of the Humanitarian System study began in September 2014. This report charts the progress made to date, eight months...
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Responding to changing needs? Challenges and opportunities for humanitarian action
This think-piece was commissioned in preparation for the Montreux XIII Donor Conference in November 2014. It aims to provide a forward-looking overview of the evolving problems the international...
Urban WASH in Emergencies
From the 24 – 28 March 2014, RedR held a pilot course for 24 WASH experts on the subject of addressing the social, institutional and technical gaps that currently exist for water, sanitation and...
Evaluating protection in humanitarian action: Issues and challenges
This paper attempts to identify the issues and challenges relating to the evaluation of protection work carried out by humanitarian actors, including those both with and without a specific protection...
Ensuring quality of evidence generated through participatory evaluation in humanitarian contexts - Method Note 3, October 2014
by Jessica Alexander and Francesca Bonino Introduction Participatory evaluations are becoming ever more commonplace as a means of engaging with affected communities. As agencies move towards...
ALNAP 30th Annual Meeting: Working together in the field for effective humanitarian response - Concept note
Why are ALNAP members meeting to discuss this topic? Next year’s Annual Meeting will consider the role of collaborative and inter-organisational approaches in achieving effective humanitarian...
Rhetoric or reality? Putting affected people at the centre of humanitarian action
Since its foundation in 1997 ALNAP (the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action) has consistently highlighted the relationship between humanitarian agencies...
'We are here' - IFRC's experience with communication and feedback channels for affected populations in Haiti
Communication with the affected population was prioritised from the outset of the emergency response in Haiti (IFRC, 2011a). This case study primarily focuses on two-way communication and feedback...
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From face-to-face to face-to-screen: implications of remote management for the effectiveness and accountability of humanitarian action in insecure environments
This article provides a first attempt at analysing the complex set of issues around remote management practices in insecure environments and their increased use. It looks at definitions and reviews...
Between chaos and control: Rethinking operational leadership
In recent years the topic of operational leadership has been the subject of increased attention in the humanitarian sector. Practitioners and policymakers have regularly expressed concern over the...
Responding to Flood Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations
This paper presents lessons learned from previous flood responses in developing countries, based on a structured review of the literature. It is intended for people working in relief and recovery...
What makes feedback mechanisms work?: Literature review to support an ALNAP–CDA action research into humanitarian feedback mechanisms
Introduction This literature review supports a broader ALNAP and CDA initiative aiming at producing evidence-informed guidance for humanitarian agencies on ways to strengthen the effectiveness of...
Fermer la boucle : Pour un retour d'information efficace dans les contextes humanitaires
Le présent document d’orientation s’adresse aux personnes qui conçoivent ou mettent en oeuvre des mécanismes de retour d'information au sein d’un programme humanitaire, et notamment dans les cas où...
Les interventions humanitaires dans les situations de violence urbaine
Portée de ce document Ce document identifie les leçons tirées d’interventions humanitaires dans des situations de violence urbaine. il est axé sur les opérations et destiné principalement au...
Closing the Loop: Effective Feedback in Humanitarian Contexts, Practitioner Guidance
This guidance is intended for people designing /or implementing feedback mechanisms in a humanitarian program, and in particular in cases where such mechanisms are established to: Operate at the...
Investing in Listening: International Organization for Migration’s Experience with Humanitarian Feedback Mechanisms in Sindh Province, Pakistan
This case study is part of an initiative to produce evidence-informed guidance for operational agencies on strengthening the effectiveness of feedback mechanisms for affected populations in...
Learning from disaster: How governments gain insight and how regional and international bodies can help
Executive summary Context and purpose of the research The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) has been working for a number of years to...
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Humanitarian feedback mechanisms: research, evidence and guidance
Introduction In 2012 ALNAP and CDA started collaborating on action research looking at feedback mechanisms in humanitarian contexts, to establish what makes them work effectively and to focus on...
Representative sampling in humanitarian evaluation - Method Note 1, February 2014
Evaluations are meant to provide trustworthy feedback on a program - for real-time evaluations this feedback is crucial to being able to make course corrections, for ex-post evaluations this feedback...
Insufficient Evidence? The quality and use of evidence in humanitarian action
Lack of evidence makes humanitarian action less effective, less ethical and less accountable. Yet the debate around evidence in the humanitarian sector is only starting. What is evidence and what do...