Evaluating humanitarian action

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  11 June 2026 / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Nepal Red Cross

  Nepal drought response 2025: Lessons, learning and reflection workshop report

  This report reviews Nepal’s 2025 drought and cholera crisis in Madhesh Province, capturing lessons from the Nepal Red Cross Society’s first drought response operation.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  29 May 2026 / Humanitarian Outcomes, UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

  No easy choice: A humanitarian’s guide to ethical, principled decision making [Burmese]

  This guide is a practical ethics guide for structured dialogue, helping decision‑makers document choices, compromises, and accountability in humanitarian dilemmas

  • Guidance and Tools
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  29 May 2026 / Humanitarian Outcomes, UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

  No hay elección fácil: una guía humanitaria para la toma de decisiones éticas y basadas en principios

  Esta guía ofrece una herramienta y un proceso de deliberación estructurada para ayudar a organizaciones e individuos a tomar mejores decisiones para una acción humanitaria basada en principios.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  29 May 2026 / Humanitarian Outcomes, UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

  Un choix difficile : Manuel à l’usage des humanitaires pour des décisions fondées sur l’éthique et les principes

  Ce guide propose un outil et un processus de délibération structurée qui permettent aux organisations et aux individus de faire les choix les plus conformes à une action humanitaire guidée par des principes.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  29 May 2026 / Participatory Development Associates (PDA)

  Indigenous knowledge systems in evaluation practice

  A thought‑provoking webinar on indigenous knowledge systems in evaluation, exploring equity, epistemic justice, and decolonising frameworks through African and global perspectives.

  • Commentaries
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  29 May 2026 / Humanitarian Outcomes, UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

  No easy choice: A humanitarian’s guide to ethical, principled decision making (ENG)

  A practical ethics guide for structured dialogue, helping decision‑makers document choices, compromises, and accountability in humanitarian dilemmas

  • Guidance and Tools
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  17 May 2026 / World Health Organization (WHO)

  Infection prevention and control guideline for Ebola and Marburg diseases

  This document provides public health advice on multisectoral actions to support the social and economic protection of communities affected by Ebola and Marburg disease outbreaks.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  17 April 2026 / Africa CDC

  Recherche et développement pendant les épidémies et les urgences de santé publique

  This research framework embraces dominant African principles/values that might guide the ethical conduct of research in Africa during epidemic emergencies to prevent harm to participants/communities.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  17 April 2026 / Africa CDC

  Research and development during epidemics and public health emergencies

  This research framework embraces dominant African principles/values that might guide the ethical conduct of research in Africa during epidemic emergencies to prevent harm to participants/communities.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  16 April 2026 / Africa CDC, African Union, World Health Organization (WHO)

  Préparation et la riposte aux épidémies en Afrique: Guide de décentralisation des capacités laboratoire

  This Guideline outlines a structured approach to decentralization of laboratory capacity to facilitate timely case confirmation and interventions and limit the impact of outbreaks, especially in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  16 April 2026 / Africa CDC, African Union, World Health Organization (WHO)

  Epidemic preparedness and response in Africa: Guidelines for the decentralization of laboratory capacity

  This Guideline outlines a structured approach to decentralization of laboratory capacity to facilitate timely case confirmation and interventions and limit the impact of outbreaks, especially in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

  • Guidance and Tools
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  8 April 2026 / The Share Trust

  The role of local actors in gender responsive and inclusive social protection systems

  This study shows how local actors can move from implementers to leaders in building gender‑responsive, inclusive, and sustainable social protection systems.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
  • Research and Studies
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  8 April 2026 / NetHope

  Harnessing AI for humanitarian impact: Lessons and insights from 11 case studies

  This report draws on 11 case studies to show how AI is being applied across the humanitarian sector — from predictive models and mapping tools to chatbots and knowledge‑retrieval systems.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  March 2026 / Oxfam

  Grand Bargain: 10 years on

  As the Grand Bargain marks 10 years in 2026, amid funding constrains, this paper argues that the next phase must protect past gains while driving credible, practical and high-quality humanitarian reform despite growing resource constraints.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  27 March 2026 / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Myanmar Red Cross Society

  Real time evaluation: Myanmar earthquake response

  This real-time evaluation examines the first three months of the response to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and lessons for future humanitarian action in complex emergency settings.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  19 March 2026 / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Turkish Red Crescent

  Türkiye earthquakes lessons learned workshop report

  This report captures key achievements, challenges, and lessons learned from IFRC and Turkish Red Cross' response to the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  16 March 2026 / ALNAP

  Learning from Crises: Responding to droughts

  17 lessons highlighting what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  16 March 2026 / ALNAP

  Responding to droughts

  This lessons paper distills 17 top-level lessons from humanitarian responses to droughts between 2012 and 2024. The lessons highlight areas of strong convergence on what humanitarian actors should prioritise when anticipating, responding to and supporting recovery from drought.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  1 March 2026 / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Groupe URD

  Evaluation of the project “Increasing capacities and scale for anticipatory action including through social protection systems”

  Evaluation of FAO and DG ECHO's joint project to integrate anticipatory action with social protection systems in Bangladesh, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Pakistan, the Philippines and Viet Nam.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned
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  1 March 2026 / Institute of Development Studies (IDS), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

  Flagship Initiative Final Report

  This final evaluation synthesises activities and learning that emerged from the Flagship Initiative.

  • Evaluations and Lessons Learned