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Annual Meeting evaluation Innovation SOHS Report 2015 National NGOs

Join us to discuss change at our 31st Annual Meeting

Can the humanitarian system change? And if so, how? As a network which exists to support change and improvement, ALNAP's 31st Annual Meeting will consider how change occurs in the humanitarian system, and how it can be done better.

Read the background paper, programme and agenda.

The EHA Guide is out!

How do we know if our humanitarian efforts are successful? Evaluation is a key way of finding out.

For the last six years, ALNAP has been developing the first Evaluating Humanitarian Action (EHA) Guide to help humanitarian actors increase the quality and usefulness of evaluating findings and results. Find out more.

What does sucessful innovation in humanitarian action look like?

In recent years there has been a steady increase in interest and activity around innovation in the humanitarian sector. But what does innovation look like in humanitarian response? How can organisations be more innovative?

Read ALNAP and ELRHA's new research!

How is the humanitarian system performing?

The State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) 2015 provides an in-depth, independent overview of the size and scope of the humanitarian system and its performance.

You can check out the main findings of the report at sohs.alnap.org!

ALNAP's new research shifts angle to describe National NGOs

ALNAP's new research into national NGOs looks to fill the current gap in understanding around what humanitarian action looks like in national NGOs' own words, from their point of view.

Read more about our National NGOs research, or read the Lebanon and Colombia reports.

31st Annual Meeting: Changing Humanitarian Action?

Despite the time, money and energy that is spent on change, there has been little attention paid to how change actually happens. This is the topic of our 31st Annual Meeting, held in Stockholm.

Read the Meeting's background paper which outlines different models to understand change.

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Evaluation resource of the month: IAHE video

This video provides an overview of three IASC inter-agency humanitarian evaluations of L-3 crises in the Philippines (Typhoon Haiyan) in 2014 and in the Central African Republic and South Sudan in 2015. These evaluations looked at how relevant and effective the responses were, and identified key lessons.

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New blog | Alice Obrecht, Research Fellow, ALNAP

The key to a successful new year's resolution is setting clear, realistic goals that can be tracked over time. Monitoring progress helps to track how well the resolution is being achieved and generate motivation. But, at the moment, it's not clear how the World Humanitarian Summit's Agenda for Humanity will be implemented and tracked. In her blog, Alice Obrecht argues that good data and evidence will be fundamental to making the WHS commitments a success, and suggests three ways to make this happen.

READ THE BLOG HERE OTHER ALNAP BLOGS

Stepping back: understanding cities and their systems

Urban disasters differ in some fundamentally important ways from rural disasters. In recent decades the rapid increase in the number of people living in cities has forced the humanitarian community to reconsider how best to respond. Recent research has identified the importance of working within existing systems and with local stakeholders in urban humanitarian response. Our new research seeks to understand: what is meant by urban systems and stakeholders, who is trying to understand what about urban systems and stakeholders and how, why this understanding is important, and how effective are existing tools/guidance in providing information about urban systems and stakeholders?

Read more about our urban response research

Read the NEW WORKING PAPER