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This review summarises current debates on impact assessment in humanitarian aid, and identifies a series of challenges. It is based on research including a literature review, debates with ALNAP...
This study aims to explore how ALNAP members and the wider sector might prioritise innovation and risk-taking in policy and practice. It does so by first reviewing experience in the private,...
The ALNAP Global Study responds to a growing consensus that the consultation and participation of disaster-affected populations during the planning, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian...
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. \nThe paper...
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of, and introduction to, key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and...
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief Program managers...
This background paper explores the relationships between international humanitarian actors and national governments in disaster?affected countries and how these are shifting in response to changes...
Involving affected populations in operations to ensure their survival is one of the most difficult challenges confronting the humanitarian world. There are few recorded examples of affected...
Summary of lessons from previous evaluations carried out in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Balkans. Main sections include: Humanitarian assistance, post-conflict rehabilitation, protection, peace...
The aim of this report is to assist agencies working in the response to Cyclone Nargis by highlighting key lessons that have been learned from other natural disasters, specifically floods,...