ALNAP Concludes 27th Annual Meeting on Humanitarian Action in Urban Areas
The 27th ALNAP Annual Meeting took place between 17 and 19 January 2012 (with an additional session on 16 January for a meeting of representatives from National Disaster Management Agencies). The meeting - hosted by World Vision India in Chennai – brought together ALNAP members to share their expertise and gain fresh perspectives on one of the most significant challenges to effective humanitarian action in the 21st Century: the growth and increasing vulnerability of urban populations.
Particpants considered the substantive differences associated with responding in urban rather than rural settings, and ways of addressing both emergency and developmental concerns in a coordinated and coherent manner. Key areas emerging included the importance of more sophisticated relationships between civil society and national governments, and approaches to evaluation and accountability in urban response. There was general consenus that the dialogue should be continued beyond the meeting.
Click here for further details including the agenda and background paper. We will be adding presentations and other documentation from the meeting in the next few days.
State of the Humanitarian System Report - your input requested
The State of the Humanitarian System Report, due for publication in early summer 2012 (see pilot edition here), is a collective endeavour to measure and assess the entirety of the international humanitarian system. This ambitious report will provide updated descriptive statistics, review key trends, and evaluate the system on overall progress on performance.
To ensure a more inclusive and representative sample we aim to include the opinions and perspectives of humanitarian aid actors and the recipients of aid. To gather this information surveys have been developed for Aid Practitioners and Aid Recipients (to be disseminated to affected populations).
Aid Practitioners Survey
If you are a humanitarian practitioner, working for an international agency; or a national agency; or a host government representative, we invite you to contribute your perspectives and experience by completing one of the global surveys below. Please choose the relevant survey and click on the link for your preferred language:
International aid agencies' survey
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National and regional aid organisations’ survey
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Host government representatives’ survey
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Aid Recipients Survey
It would be extremely helpful if anyone working in an agency can help to disseminate a 14-question aid-recipient survey to affected populations. If so, please contact Abby Stoddard for more information.
Thank you for your assistance! Your input is vital to make this report as inclusive and representative as possible.
ALNAP Secretariat Submission to the DFID Research and Innovation Strategy Consultation
As part of the follow-up to the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, the UK Department for International Development has launched a consultation to inform the development of a strategy to underpin its future investment in research and innovation.
As these issues are at the centre of the ALNAP network, the secretariat is delighted to contribute to this important discussion. The contribution to the consultation from the ALNAP secretariat relates to two specific areas: the possibility of increasing the quality and use of evaluations as a form of evidence on humanitarian performance; and the specific approaches towards research and evidence collection that can be used to support innovation in the humanitarian system. The full text of the submission can be found here.
DFID is seeking views from humanitarian organisations, academics, business and other donors as to where their efforts should be focused in the coming years. For more information, or to participate, please contact DFID directly.