There is increasing recognition among humanitarian actors of the need to enhance and demonstrate the impact through protection programming to achieve actual change in people’s lives in terms of reduced risks of violence, coercion, exploitation and deprivation.
Practitioners need to grapple with some fundamental questions: What do “results” look like for protection? What makes a result protective? What key elements are necessary to ensure that efforts to enhance protection are results-based? Do the methods we use support a results based approach? How might a results-based approach achieve short, medium and long-term protection outcomes?