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Do you work in the #humanitarian sector? Can you spare a couple of minutes? Help ALNAP improve its global humanitarian resource library- a public good one of the largest of its kind in the sector. Take the survey https://lnkd.in/eGDd_YaX

😃 Super excited to be sharing the first news about a very special event we are planning on 🗓 Wednesday, 10th July. The Learning Curve: a world where learning comes first ℹ Much more info to follow in the coming days and weeks. For now, just register your interest here https://lnkd.in/eUein-vE and save the date. 🌍 Global humanitarians - you really do have to be at this one.

😃 Super excited to be sharing the first news about a very special event we are planning on 🗓 Wednesday, 10th July. The Learning Curve: a world where learning comes first ℹ Much more info to follow in the coming days and weeks. For now, just register your interest here https://lnkd.in/eUein-vE and save the date. 🌍 Global humanitarians - you really do have to be at this one.

📝 Apply today for our consultancy: Lessons from responses to drought for humanitarian implementers. Check out the terms of reference: https://lnkd.in/e3Qqv8kA ALNAP is looking to contract a researcher or a team of researchers to conduct research to identify lessons from responses to drought, in accordance with ALNAP’s methodology for lessons papers. The researchers are expected to produce one long form, comprehensive paper detailing the relevant lessons. The researchers will also be expected to provide feedback on, and quality assure short communication outputs developed by ALNAP based on the long form paper. The purpose of this lessons paper is not to provide a definitive answer on ‘what works’ but rather to highlight critical issues that humanitarian agencies must consider when designing and implementing response programmes in a drought-affected area. The research will aim to identify lessons that are applicable at different stages of drought response: -- Diagnostics: useful lessons for decision-makers ahead of an expected drought, including monitoring, assessing needs, data collection and early warning. -- Response: useful lessons for decision makers designing and implementing a drought response, including early/anticipatory action, effective response modalities, and cross-cutting themes. -- Recovery and resilience: useful lessons for decision makers looking at integrating recovery and resilience activities and preparedness for the next drought into the response. As the paper is focused on response to drought, the lessons should be specifically related to drought response as opposed to other types of crisis response. However, recognising that drought often occurs in conjunction with other severe pressures (conflict, extreme poverty, etc.), the lessons should consider nuances in context and type of drought. The research will draw from various sources, including a review of evaluations and other types of learning reviews (grey literature), and academic literature. The research will use the 2011 drought paper as one source of literature, capturing learning prior to 2012. The rest of the source material will be publications from 2012 onwards, in order to capture more recent learning. More information on our website: https://lnkd.in/duQ_de6N

TAKE OUR SHORT SURVEY TO HELP US STRENGTHEN OUR ONLINE RESOURCE LIBRARY EVEN MORE... ALNAP’s HELP library – humanitarian evaluation, learning and performance (HELP) – has over 22,000 resources, making it one of the largest online repositories of humanitarian knowledge and evidence. We’re committed to making it even better for you and are conducting a survey to gather valuable feedback. https://lnkd.in/dMt8bDbC This is your chance to influence the redesign of the HELP library, ensuring it becomes a more user-friendly and accessible resource for the humanitarian sector, so please take a moment to provide your feedback and share your experience with us.

📢 Don't miss our online #gLOCAL2024 event! 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝘙𝘖𝘈𝘋𝘉𝘓𝘖𝘊𝘒𝘚 𝘛𝘖 𝘙𝘖𝘈𝘋𝘔𝘈𝘗𝘚: 𝘕𝘈𝘝𝘐𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘌𝘕𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌𝘙𝘚 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘉𝘈𝘙𝘙𝘐𝘌𝘙𝘚 𝘛𝘖 𝘈𝘋𝘝𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘓𝘖𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘓𝘠-𝘓𝘌𝘋 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘠-𝘌𝘕𝘎𝘈𝘎𝘌𝘋 𝘌𝘝𝘈𝘓𝘜𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕 𝘐𝘕 𝘏𝘜𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘈𝘙𝘐𝘈𝘕 𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘟𝘛𝘚 This session is in partnership with Humanitarian Advisory Group and GLOW Consultants (Private) Limited. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of the enablers and barriers to locally-led M&E in humanitarian contexts and learn concrete steps to strengthen approaches to making evaluation findings accessible to communities. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐧, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫, 𝐀𝐋𝐍𝐀𝐏 𝐏𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨, 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐇𝐀𝐆 𝐙𝐚𝐤𝐢 𝐔𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡, 𝐂𝐄𝐎, 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 (𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞) 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 🗓 June 5 🕰 10:00AM (GMT+1)/5:00PM (GMT+8) 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UCnPiR

From 🛣 roadblocks to 🗺 roadmaps: navigating the enablers and barriers to advancing locally-led and community-engaged evaluation in humanitarian contexts 📢 Join us next week at our online #gLOCAL2024 event on locally-led M&E. 🗓 June 5 🕛 10:00AM (GMT+1)/5:00PM (GMT+8) 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UCnPiR Locally-led monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and the meaningful engagement of communities in evaluations are important vehicles for greater accountability in humanitarian aid. However, humanitarian settings pose significant challenges to M&E, including difficulty in accessing populations affected by crises and the constant balance of resources versus priority actions, leaving little room for practitioners and organisations to advance and support locally-led and community-centred M&E practices. Through this session, ALNAP and Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) will share the findings from their respective research on locally-led M&E and making evaluation findings accessible to communities (HAG, forthcoming). In particular, @HAG and GLOW Consultants (Private) Limited will share findings of research into the current practices used by humanitarians and M&E practitioners to make the results of evaluation processes accessible to communities. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of the enablers and barriers to locally-led M&E in humanitarian contexts and learn concrete steps to strengthen approaches to making evaluation findings accessible to communities. Speakers: Hana Abul Husn, Senior Research Officer, ALNAP Pamela Combinido, Leader, HAG Zaki Ullah, CEO, GLOW Consultants (Private) Limited Secure your spot here: https://bit.ly/3UCnPiR

🚨 ALNAP vacancy alert! 📝 Apply today for our consultancy: Lessons from responses to drought for humanitarian implementers! Application deadline: 16 June 2024 ALNAP is looking to contract a researcher or a team of researchers to conduct research to identify lessons from responses to drought, in accordance with ALNAP’s methodology for lessons papers. The researchers are expected to produce one long form, comprehensive paper detailing the relevant lessons. The researchers will also be expected to provide feedback on, and quality assure short communication outputs developed by ALNAP based on the long form paper. The purpose of this lessons paper is not to provide a definitive answer on ‘what works’ but rather to highlight critical issues that humanitarian agencies must consider when designing and implementing response programmes in a drought-affected area. The research will aim to identify lessons that are applicable at different stages of drought response: -- Diagnostics: useful lessons for decision-makers ahead of an expected drought, including monitoring, assessing needs, data collection and early warning.  -- Response: useful lessons for decision makers designing and implementing a drought response, including early/anticipatory action, effective response modalities, and cross-cutting themes.  -- Recovery and resilience: useful lessons for decision makers looking at integrating recovery and resilience activities and preparedness for the next drought into the response.  As the paper is focused on response to drought, the lessons should be specifically related to drought response as opposed to other types of crisis response. However, recognising that drought often occurs in conjunction with other severe pressures (conflict, extreme poverty, etc.), the lessons should consider nuances in context and type of drought.   The research will draw from various sources, including a review of evaluations and other types of learning reviews (grey literature), and academic literature. The research will use the 2011 drought paper as one source of literature, capturing learning prior to 2012. The rest of the source material will be publications from 2012 onwards, in order to capture more recent learning. Find more information: https://lnkd.in/duQ_de6N

📢 Join us at our online #gLOCAL2024 event on locally-led M&E! 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝘙𝘖𝘈𝘋𝘉𝘓𝘖𝘊𝘒𝘚 𝘛𝘖 𝘙𝘖𝘈𝘋𝘔𝘈𝘗𝘚: 𝘕𝘈𝘝𝘐𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘌𝘕𝘈𝘉𝘓𝘌𝘙𝘚 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘉𝘈𝘙𝘙𝘐𝘌𝘙𝘚 𝘛𝘖 𝘈𝘋𝘝𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘓𝘖𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘓𝘠-𝘓𝘌𝘋 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘠-𝘌𝘕𝘎𝘈𝘎𝘌𝘋 𝘌𝘝𝘈𝘓𝘜𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕 𝘐𝘕 𝘏𝘜𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘛𝘈𝘙𝘐𝘈𝘕 𝘊𝘖𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘟𝘛𝘚 🗓 June 5 🕰 10:00AM (GMT+1)/5:00PM (GMT+8) 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UCnPiR Locally-led monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and the meaningful engagement of communities in evaluations are important vehicles for greater accountability in humanitarian aid. However, humanitarian settings pose significant challenges to M&E, including difficulty in accessing populations affected by crises and the constant balance of resources versus priority actions, leaving little room for practitioners and organisations to advance and support locally-led and community-centred M&E practices. Through this session, ALNAP and Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) will share the findings from their respective research on locally-led M&E and making evaluation findings accessible to communities (HAG, forthcoming). In particular, HAG and GLOW Consultants (Private) Limited will share findings of research into the current practices used by humanitarians and M&E practitioners to make the results of evaluation processes accessible to communities. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of the enablers and barriers to locally-led M&E in humanitarian contexts and learn concrete steps to strengthen approaches to making evaluation findings accessible to communities. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐧, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫, 𝐀𝐋𝐍𝐀𝐏 𝐏𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨, 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐇𝐀𝐆 𝐙𝐚𝐤𝐢 𝐔𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡, 𝐂𝐄𝐎, 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 (𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞) 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 Secure your spot here: https://bit.ly/3UCnPiR

HELP us with our survey today – make our humanitarian resource repository even better. ALNAP’s HELP library – humanitarian evaluation, learning and performance (HELP) – has over 22,000 resources, making it one of the largest online repositories of humanitarian knowledge and evidence. You can explore it here: https://lnkd.in/ee3zHq4f We’re committed to making it even better for you and are conducting a survey to gather valuable feedback. This is your chance to influence the redesign of the HELP library, ensuring it becomes a more user-friendly and accessible resource for the humanitarian sector, so please take a moment to provide your feedback and share your experience with us. Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/dMt8bDbC