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Leadership

Poor leadership can create delays, confusion, and missed opportunities. 

Humanitarian leadership is cited as one of the most important factors underpinning performance and effectiveness. Every major strategic and operational ambition – from addressing resource gaps and coordinating aid delivery, to improving accountability and advancing localisation – demands the realisation of better leadership. But what is good leadership?

ALNAPs work on this looks into how operational leadership works in practice and how it can be improved; and how humanitarians can make effective decisions in situations characterised by uncertainty and urgency.

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Decision-making
Rethinking leadership
Webinars
Plan/Policy/Strategy
29 Jul 2020

Annual Report 2019–2020 | Leadership brief

Decision-making

The ability to make good decisions – particularly under urgent and uncertain circumstances – is fundamental to effective humanitarian response. ALNAP’s research explores the nature of humanitarian decision-making and identifies concrete recommendations for decision-makers themselves and those who support them. In particular, the research identifies how different decision-making approaches are appropriate in different circumstances.

Report / Study
November 2019

ALNAP Study | Beyond Assumptions: How humanitarians make operational decisions

Campbell, L. and Knox Clarke, P.
Report / Study
31 Jan 2020

Using Diaries to Explore Humanitarian Decision-Making: A methods note

Campbell, L.
Audio/Video
23 Mar 2020

ALNAP Webinar | Using diaries as a research method

Plan/Policy/Strategy
31 Jan 2020

Making Better Decisions: How can organisations support field-based leaders?

Knox Clarke, P.
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Rethinking leadership

At the core of ALNAP's research on this subject is the understanding that operational leadership is not conducted by a single person, the leader. Rather, leadership should be seen as a function of the organisation, the team and the individual working together.

Meeting/training
22 Jan 2020

ALNAP Training | Introduction to Effective Humanitarian Leadership: Facilitation Kit

Audio/Video
01 Mar 2015

Animation: How can we ensure effective leadership in humanitarian response?

Report / Study
29 Jul 2014

Between chaos and control: Rethinking operational leadership

Knox Clarke, P.
Report / Study
01 Jan 2013

Who's in charge here?: A literature review of approaches to leadership in humanitarian operations

Knox Clarke, Paul

Webinars

Emergency vehicles search for victims of earthquake/tsunami.

In this webinar series, ALNAP looked for leadership examples outside the sector which show that improving organisational structures and procedures is a key enabler for leadership teams to work effectively.

Incident and Unified Command System experts elaborated on lessons from their respective sectors that could be relevant for improving humanitarian action (e.g. around decisionmaking and information management amongst others).

Event
10 Nov

Webinar: What can humanitarians learn from Incident Command Systems?

3 Oct 2014
Lego Incident response
Event
12 Feb

Webinar: Adapting incident command systems to humanitarian response

12 Feb 2015
Event
01 Apr

Webinar: Coordinating for effective humanitarian action: Lessons from unified command systems

1 Apr 2015

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ALNAP
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203 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8NJ
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7922 0421
Email: alnap [at] alnap [dot] org

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