This is the virtual meeting space on evidence and knowledge. You’ll find all the presentations, video clips, materials and recordings from the ALNAP gathering in Washington in March 2013.
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Videos
The ALNAP effect: 152 people, 32 countries, 5 continents (voice of Nan Buzard, ICVA Exec Director and ALNAP Chair)
"Who is this evidence for?" Ricardo Polastro (DARA)
"Don't just look at the hierarchy of evidence, but also hierarchy of decision-making." Wendy Fenton (HPN)
"Discussion moving from 'what' to 'how', but what about the 'who'?" Kate Burns (UNOCHA)
"Gather all the data you want; at the end of the day there are judgements made" Michael N. Barnett (Uni George Washington)
"What is the point of data if it comes too late?" François Grünewald (Groupe URD)
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"Disconnect between narrow definition of aid and reality of peoples' lives" Judith Randel (Development Initiatives)
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"What do we mean by 'evidence'?" John MItchell, ALNAP
"This manual, which is law, has all the procedures necessary for donors" Marco Saborio - Costa Rica
"Organisations are starting to become more evidence-driven." Peter Walker, Tufts University
"There's resistance to evidence because it leads to redundancy" Anthony Redmond (Uni Manchester)
"The language we use to describe evidence is important" Anthony Redmond (Uni Manchester)
"Local communities say aid is 'too much, too fast'" Mary Anderson, author Time to Listen
Evidence: I can't think of a more ALNAP-y topic!"
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"Improve quality and quantity of evidence" Joanna Macrae, DFID
Beyond the report: iterative approaches to evaluation
Why was the ALNAP meeting useful?
"Are we asking the right questions?" Local knowledge and evidence
"There is a need for proper evaluation of evidence in India": Muzaffar Ahmad, India NDMA
Presentations
Cracks in the machine: is the humanitarian system fit for purpose? (Peter Walker, Tufts University)
Data, evidence and access to information
Getting evidence back tot he ground (Rigmor Argren, Save the Children)
Response analysis in food security crises: a 'road map' (Dan Maxwell, Tufts Uni)
Using An Agency-Wide Measurement Approach to Understand Emergency Response (Barbara Willet (Mercy Corp)
Towards evidence-aware humanitarian practice: the role of donors (Joanna Macrae, DFID)
Evidence Aid: who and why (Claire Allen, Evidence Aid)
Real time evaluation in theory and practice (Jess Letch, Uni Melbourne)
Convincing all stakeholders that we have demonstrated results
How can accountability improve coordination? (Kate Burns, OCHA)
Evidence in donor coordination: Afghanistan (Raseema Alam, consultant)
Humanitarian Indicator Tool (Nigel Timmins and Dr Vivien Walden, Oxfam)
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Tracking beneficiaries and services delivered (Harry Carr, CRS)
Agency-wide measurement approach to understand emergency response (Barbara Willett and Michael Wallace, MercyCorps)
Data quality in remote monitoring (Mona Fetouh, UNOIOS)
Cluster Randomised Control Trials in Chad (Cecile Salpeteur, ACF)
Rapid mobile phone based surveys (Scott Chaplowe and Rose Donna, IFRC)
Extreme realities and imagination barriers: Somalia (Savina Tessitore, FAO)
Crowd-programmed initiatives (Dr Adrian Flint, Uni Bristol, and Chris Meyer zu Natrup, consultant)
Systematic reviews and trials (Claire Allen, Evidence Aid)
Standards and evidence-based response (John Demerell, Sphere)
Time to listen (Danya Brown, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects)
"Show me the money": evidence from and for accountability (Christina Laybourne, One World Trust, and Alice Obrecht, HFP)
Local knowledge as evidence (Mamadou, OFADEC)
International standards where there is no evidence? (Rob Allport et al)
Building the evidential quality of evaluations (Tony Redmond, Uni Manchester)
Evaluating impact of humanitarian action: a science or an art (Jo Puri, 3iE)
Reviewing quality of evidence in humanitarian evaluations (Juliet Parker, Christian Aid, and David Sanderson, Oxford Brookes Uni)
Needle in the haystack: role of external evaluations (Saul Guerro, ACF)
Evidence and knowledge in humanitarian action (John Mitchell, ALNAP)
More videos will be uploaded over this week. We will let you know via Twitter (@alnap), Facebook and our email update as they are added.
Download brief summaries and audio for presentations
Click on the session titles below to download short written summaries drawing out key ideas (usually two or three pages) for all presentations given at the Evidence & Knowledge meeting.
Podcasts now available: podcasts of presentations, where recordings were made at the meeting, have been added to this section.
