Juliet Parker Director, ALNAP Throughout 2024, ALNAP will be challenging itself, its members and the wider sector to unlock the full potential of humanitarian learning. Our mission is to shift...
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Concept Note | Updating ALNAP's guidance on evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD DAC criteria
Background The OECD DAC evaluation criteria, first published in 1991, provide a normative framework for evaluation and were designed to help promote collaboration in evaluation practice, by offering...
New portal on targeting is now live
ALNAP is pleased to announce the addition of a new portal to its HELP Library in partnership with UNHCR. The portal, available at targeting.alnap.org, was initiated as part of the UNHCR’s efforts to...
Mortality emergency threshold: A case for revision
Fabrice Weissman Research Director Médecins Sans Frontièr The crude mortality rate (CMR) is one of the most widely used indicators at MSF and the humanitarian sector more generally, when evaluating...
Understanding context to improve urban humanitarian response
by Leah Campbell March 2018 Over the past several years, recognition of the need for humanitarian response to be ‘context-relevant’ has grown in prominence. It featured in conversations around the...
A Thought for World Humanitarian Day
By John Mitchell on 16 August 2017. We humanitarians are a self-critical bunch. Independent evaluations, research studies, conferences and popular books on humanitarianism tend to focus on a...
Urban Research Initiative: Responding to crises in complex, interconnected urban contexts
ALNAP’s work on urban humanitarian response began in 2012 with a range of activities that promote the exchange of learning around urban crises, including the Urban Humanitarian Response Portal, a...
What does the UK election campaign mean for aid evaluation?
By Neil Dillon on 2 June 2017 Ahead of the United Kingdom's general election, the three major parties have now pledged to maintain at least 0.7% of gross national income on overseas aid. But in a...
Insecurity in the Humanitarian Cyberspace: A Call for Innovation
By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik on 3 May 2016. Humanitarian practitioners and scholars are currently struggling with how to analyse the opportunities and challenges of technological innovation. This...
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Are You Really Listening? How Feedback Mechanisms Work (or Not) in Insecure Environments
By Lotte Ruppert and Elias Sagmeister on 5 February 2016. Consulting people about the aid they receive is recognized as central to improving the quality of humanitarian assistance. This is...
Is Islamic charitable giving a promising resource for future humanitarian assistance?
We are all too aware of the number and scale of humanitarian crises facing our world today, not least in Syria where an estimated 220,000 people have died in the four-year conflict. It is important...
Harnessing the potential of cities and refugees
By Amanda Gray The devastating war in Syria has seen more than 3 million people displaced to neighbouring countries (with millions more internally displaced inside Syrian borders). These refugees...
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How digital humanitarians are improving the Ebola response
By the beginning of October 2014, two full months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an Ebola outbreak emergency in West Africa, the international response was insufficient,...
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...
Syria Evaluation Portal live now
Today, several ALNAP Members together with Network partners have launched a new Syria Evaluation Portal for Improved Accountability and Lesson Learning (CALL). The Portal aims to enhance collective...
Lessons for response to Typhoon Haiyan
Many ALNAP Member organisations are currently working with Philippine Government agencies and civil society to support the estimated 9.8 million people affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines...
(Re)constructing the City: Integrating urban design into humanitarian response (webinar transcription)
WEBINAR: (Re)constructing the city: integrating urban design into humanitarian response TRANSCRIPTION Presenters: Kate Crawford, Alison Killing Moderator: Leah Campbell, ALNAP Date: 20 August 2013
Governments in crisis-affected countries
Mapping NDMAs and government disaster authorities The governments of states experiencing humanitarian emergencies, and their partners at a local level, are a fundamental part of international,...
Urban Humanitarian Response Portal now live
ALNAP and UN-Habitat have just launched an Urban Humanitarian Response Portal - a knowledge sharing platform, with a focus on disaster preparedness, relief and early recovery in urban crises. It...
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Hazards hurt most in societies that think being female is the real disaster
“Women are not born vulnerable, but are made vulnerable to disasters. Fulfilling their roles made the women more valued in society because the completion of them suddenly became so much more...