Commentary Protection’s missing pieces Humanitarians know that coordinated humanitarian response is like an enormous jigsaw puzzle – or, when resources are scarce, a high-risk game of Jenga. Ensuring that the right actors, sectors, and … Commentary Struggling to see the trees for the wood: reflecting on decision-making in the humanitarian context I spent several months diarising my decision-making and -taking in 2018 as part of the research behind ALNAP’s recent study Beyond Assumptions. Here, I encountered several recurring challenges as I … Leadership & Decision-making Commentary What I learnt from recording and analysing my own decisions when responding on the ground And yet, with every decision I registered and analysed in my diary, my confidence started to falter, and my learning process began. Soon, I realised that the most important aspect … Leadership & Decision-making Commentary What progress is being made towards ensuring crisis financing meets people’s priority needs? A discussion on this important issue for the humanitarian sector Accountability to affected populations Commentary Tracking the Relevance of Humanitarian Aid: remote surveys via mobile phone Mobile technology can be used to rapidly and remotely gather information about on-the-ground needs before, during and after a humanitarian response or during protracted crises, to ensure aid is relevant. … Monitoring & Evaluation Commentary Ready to be more flexible? Time to shift your mindset This set of products is itself flexible to the user’s interests and needs: they can be read in conjunction with one another, or separately on their own. The entire study … About ALNAP Commentary Three ways humanitarians can become more data savvy Irrespective of job title, all humanitarians need to understand how the data we have is shaped by the questions we ask. We need to deepen our understanding of the real … Innovation Commentary Why her understanding could never be mine, and mine could never be hers When asked to contribute to ALNAP’s Annual Meeting blog series on relevance in humanitarian action, I felt compelled to share an experience that altered the way I perceive the world. … Commentary Four things humanitarians need to know about LGBTQI+ exclusion and its consequences As a trans woman working in the humanitarian and development sectors, it’s increasingly galling to hear the exhortation ‘leave no one behind’ thrown around with gay abandon. The reality is … Leadership Commentary Sexual exploitation: abusing a position of vulnerability Nor do we wish for our decision to have any negative consequences for people in the sex industry, a view asserted by Sandvik in relation to the Nordic model of … System-wide performance Commentary 8 things affected people have to say about the Grand Bargain It has been over three years since humanitarian donors and implementers signed the ‘Grand Bargain’, promising to make aid more focused on, and responsive to, the people it is supposed … Accountability to affected populations Commentary Data gaps offer a deafening silence on global humanitarian reforms Alice Obrecht is writing this blog in a personal capacity.Ask the CEO of a company if they would rather have bad performance data for their firm or no data at … System-wide performance Commentary What has happened with the academic commitments at the WHS? This month marks three years since the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) was held in Turkey. Then, 63 humanitarian studies scholars in conjunction with the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) got … System-wide performance Commentary Safeguarding: good intentions, difficult process However, despite good intentions, I suggest that the safeguarding response has some problematic qualities which need to be discussed. Here I will focus on two:Formulating inclusive and informed safeguardingFirst, as … Commentary Identification & land tenure: The lasting impact of ‘natural’ disasters ALNAP’s new earthquakes lessons paper was launched in Kathmandu on 13 February 2019, where a range of actors, from municipal and national authorities to engineers and response organisations took part. … Earthquakes Commentary Humanitarians are using blockchain - but it's not (yet) as transformative as we thought Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), such as blockchain, are the subject of enormous hype in humanitarian circles. Multiple operational agencies and donors have set up pilots or units dedicated to exploring … Commentary ALNAP Lessons papers: A case for humanitarian desk-based reviews This blog was written by Helene Juillard at Key Aid Consulting. Juillard is lead author of the upcoming ALNAP Lessons Paper: Responding to earthquakes, which she produced alongside her colleague … Learning Commentary How should we evaluate protection? People affected by crisis face a wide range of risks. All too often, armed conflict leads to the deliberate targeting of civilians, systematic denial or violation of human rights, threats … Monitoring & Evaluation Commentary How should we evaluate protection? An introduction to ALNAP's guide on evaluating protection. Monitoring & Evaluation Commentary Back to square one in joint humanitarian evaluations? When donors and aid agencies concluded their Grand Bargain in 2016, a commitment was made to reduce individual donor(-commissioned) evaluations. Supposedly, the intention was not only to save costs and … Monitoring & Evaluation Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next