25th ALNAP Meeting - Day One
Innovations in International Humanitarian Action
Day 1 of the 25th ALNAP Meeting, hosted in partnership with the Humanitarian Futures Programme, builds on recent ALNAP research on innovations in international humanitarian response. The aims are to bring together key actors to develop ideas about how to improve innovations in the sector, to generate new ideas and potentially a future shared agenda. The overall goals are to see innovation incorporated as a key element of ongoing efforts to improve humanitarian aid effectiveness, and to see a stronger culture of innovation within humanitarian organisations and across the sector as a whole.
The meeting will highlight perspectives from outside and within the humanitarian sector. As well as keynote presentations, participatory discussions and workshops, the meeting will involve an “Innovations Fair”, showcasing over 20 humanitarian innovations. The Meeting Booklet and Background Paper are now available.
AGENDA
0900 - 0930 Arrival and Registration
09:30 – 11:15 OPENING SESSION
09:30 - 09:35 Meeting Opened by Eleanor Monbiot, Chair of ALNAP
09:35 – 09:50 Opening address by Minouche Shafik, Permanent Secretary, DFID
09:50 – 10:20 Keynote 1: Innovations in International Humanitarian Response, John Mitchell, Director of ALNAP
10:20 – 11:00 Keynote 2: Creating innovation and energy in organisations, Professor Lynda Gratton, London Business School
10:50 – 11:15 Q&A and Open Discussion
11:45 - 13:00 REFLECTIONS AND BUZZ GROUPS
Reflections on the presentations from the previous session. In plenary with break-outs into buzz groups.
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:30 WORKSHOPS
1. How can the humanitarian sector create incentives for innovation, while managing the different kinds of risks posed by innovation?
2. What is the role of codes and standards in promoting and fostering innovation?
3. What role should evidence – specifically evaluation and research – play in generating, piloting and testing innovations, and what are the related opportunities and challenges?
4. How can organisational approaches to develop, test and scale up innovations be strengthened?
5. What kinds of partnerships are needed for effective innovations in the sector, and what are the implications for existing relationships? (e.g. consider relations between operational agencies, donors, private sector, academic, counterparts in affected states?)
6. What kinds of cross-organisational mechanisms and processes are required to foster greater collaborative innovation across the sector?
7. How can humanitarian agencies best utilise new technologies for the benefit of humanitarian innovation?
8. How can 'user-generated innovations' be made more prominent in the humanitarian sector? How can international humanitarian agencies better capitalise on the innovative potential present in the communities and countries in which they work?
16:00-17:15 FINAL PANEL & PLENARY SESSION
An open session, in plenary, based around a panel of expert discussants, with feedback from workshops. This session will be chaired by Peter Walker, Tufts University. The Discussants will be: Mark Cutts, Senior Advisor, OCHA; Jacqui Tong, President, MSF UK; Valerie Bemo, Gates Foundation
17:15-17:30 WRAP-UP
Eleanor Monbiot and John Mitchell
17:30-19:00 INNOVATIONS FAIR
A chance for attendees to learn about new and existing innovations and innovative ideas - for more click here
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