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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

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. …

Four things humanitarians need to know about LGBTQI+ exclusion and its consequences

The reality is that gay people are routinely abandoned in the humanitarian sector, along with lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and other people of diverse genders and sexualities.

• Leadership

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

How to Improve Outcomes Monitoring

Summary of the findings of the ALNAP paper 'Back to the Drawing Board'

• Monitoring & Evaluation

Qualitative Approaches to Monitoring

Summary of ALNAP paper's Beyond the Numbers

• Monitoring & Evaluation

Improving monitoring in humanitarian action

This animation outlines ALNAP's most recent research on monitoring of humanitarian action.

• Monitoring & Evaluation

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

Beyond the Numbers: How qualitative approaches can improve monitoring of humanitarian action

Potential ways to improve the capture and uptake of qualitative data

• Monitoring & Evaluation

Back to the Drawing Board: How to improve monitoring of outcomes

Reflection and future improvement of M&E

• Monitoring & Evaluation

Breaking the Mould: Alternative approaches to monitoring and evaluation

This paper looks at a range of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) innovations that are designed specifically to provide input to ongoing iterative decision-making and learning at the project level.

• Monitoring & Evaluation

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

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

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 …

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

Evaluation of Sida’s support to peacebuilding in conflict and post-conflict contexts

Details:Publication language: EnglishPages: 30ppSuggested citation: Bryld, E., Brett, J., Masri-Pedersen, N., et al. (2019) Evaluation of SIDA’s support to peacebuilding in conflict and post-conflict contexts: synthesis report. Stockholm: Swedish International …

• Humanitarian-development-peace nexus

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 …

Responding to earthquakes

Lessons from previous humanitarian responses following any type of earthquake, provided it occurred on dry land

• Earthquakes

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

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