Research update: Adaptiveness

13 Feb 2018

Starting in September 2017, ALNAP's Adaptiveness research project focuses on flexible approaches to programming and funding, particularly when responding to complex humanitarian crises, such as protracted conflicts and long-term cyclical natural disasters. 

Senior Research Fellow Alice Obrecht, who leads on this research project, is currently looking at humanitarian adaptiveness in Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya, as well as organising a two-day workshop on the subject. The research project will culminate on a study synthesising findings and discussions from the case studies and the workshop.

 

01 Sep 2017 | ALNAP publishes Using Evidence to Allocate Humanitarian Resources

A significant World Humanitarian Summit outcome, the Grand Bargain reforms aim to make the humanitarian system more financially efficient and fit for purpose.

But, Alice Obrecht suggests, these reforms cannot be successfully achieved without paying attention to how donors gather, use and share evidence and information.

Drawing on ideas from the public health sector and charity evaluation, Using Evidence to Allocate Humanitarian Resources suggests ways forward which can be incorporated into ongoing reform efforts: clarifying priorities, investing in evidence, coordinating and consolidating current data sets, and adapting.

Read the study.

05 - 06 September | ALNAP hosts a workshop about making humanitarian action more flexible

Drawing on original research and recent work by ALNAP Members and colleagues in the development sector,  in early September 2018 ALNAP hosted a two-day closed workshop to explore what flexible humanitarian action looks like and how to support it. 

You can read the background paper from this workshop here.
 

11 Feb 2018 | ALNAP publishes Humanitarian adaptiveness in Democratic Republic of Congo country study

Alice Obrecht's country study Humanitarian adaptiveness in Democratic Republic of Congo is published. The study incorporates interviews with local and international agencies based in DRC, and an extensive literature study. 

Read the study.