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Future research and learning: Shaping agendas to inform more people centred humanitarian action

In recent years, several critical reform agendas - localisation, accountability to affected populations (AAP) and inclusion – have built momentum at the heart of a push for quality humanitarian action grounded in equity and the experiences of crisis-affected people.

Despite this progress, ALNAP’s recent review of outcomes and practices highlights the inadequacy of current methodologies and a particularly weak evidence base around these reforms (although better for localisation). It revealed that while it is likely good practices do exist in the field, they often have not been fully evidenced, researched or widely disseminated. The review also underlined the need to reflect on and better inform research and learning.

This briefing is based on ​​ a larger review of existing evidence on localisation, AAP and inclusion ‘Harnessing evidence and learning for people-centred humanitarian action

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