Flexibility

Humanitarian actors are responding to more complex situations, such as protracted conflict and high-risk cyclical natural disasters. They face continually changing, uncertain and long term crises, which is a stark contrast to the shorter term rapid-onset situations − such as flooding or earthquakes − that the humanitarian system was built around.

How can programmes adapt their response in the face of continual change and uncertainty? How can donors enable flexible funding to ensure organisations can adapt quickly? ALNAP's adaptiveness research project looks at the approaches that can help agencies more effectively respond to the shifting waves of need.

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Evidence and resource allocation

Plan/Policy/Strategy

Annual Report 2019–2020 | Flexibility brief

Photo credit: ECHO.

12 December 2019

Ready to Change? Building flexibility into the triple nexus

Ready to be more flexible? Time to shift your mindset

Shifting Mindsets: Creating a more flexible humanitarian response

Shifting Mindsets Audio Companion | Full playlist

Meeting/training

Making humanitarian response more flexible: ALNAP workshop background paper

Obrecht, A. with Bourne, S.

Dynamic gridlock: Adaptive humanitarian action in the DRC

Adapting According to Plan: Early action and adaptive drought response in Kenya

Evidence and resource allocation

A significant World Humanitarian Summit outcome, the Grand Bargain reforms aim to make the humanitarian system more financially efficient and fit for purpose. But these reforms cannot be successfully achieved without paying attention to how donors gather, use and share evidence and information.

Working Paper: Using Evidence to Allocate Humanitarian Resources: Challenges and Opportunities

Webinar: Using Evidence in Humanitarian Resource Allocation

Meeting/training

Webinar transcript: Using Evidence in Humanitarian Resource Allocation

Kame Sake receives €30 per month from the Kenya Red Cross

Putting money where it matters: What can humanitarians learn from other sectors?

This ALNAP webinar will look at the challenges humanitarian donors and agencies face around gathering and using evidence for allocating resources.