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 Report Learning from What We Know: How to improve evaluation synthesis for humanitarian organisations This paper provides guidance on when to do an evaluation synthesis and how to do it well. Monitoring & Evaluation 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 Report Beyond Assumptions: How humanitarians make operational decisions Explores suitable approaches to making decisions in different humanitarian contexts Leadership & Decision-making 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 Multimedia How to Improve Outcomes Monitoring Summary of the findings of the ALNAP paper 'Back to the Drawing Board' Monitoring & Evaluation Multimedia Qualitative Approaches to Monitoring Summary of ALNAP paper's Beyond the Numbers Monitoring & Evaluation Multimedia Improving monitoring in humanitarian action This animation outlines ALNAP's most recent research on monitoring of humanitarian action. Monitoring & Evaluation 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 Report 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 Report Back to the Drawing Board: How to improve monitoring of outcomes Reflection and future improvement of M&E Monitoring & Evaluation Report 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 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 Back 1 2 ... 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next