Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP)

ALNAP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Mission

ALNAP is a unique network that incorporates many of the key humanitarian organizations and experts from across the humanitarian sector, including members from donor, NGO, Red Cross/Crescent, UN and independent/academic organizations.

As such, ALNAP is able to utilise the broad range of experience and expertise within its membership to produce tools and analyses relevant and accessible to the humanitarian sector as a whole. ALNAP’s workplan is aimed at improving humanitarian performance through learning and accountability, and consists of core activities, project activities and linked activities.

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The state of the humanitarian system (2015)
This year's study compiles the latest statistics on the size and scope of the humanitarian system and assesses overall performance and progress in the period 2012-2014.
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Responding to Flood Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations
This paper presents lessons learned from previous flood responses in developing countries, based on a structured review of the literature for people working in relief and recovery operations who have to decide if, when and how to intervene after a flood.
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Meeting the urban challenge: adapting humanitarian efforts to an urban world
This document considers how the nature of urban space and of urban populations influences disasters in cities; it discusses the question of urban disasters in comparison with rural disasters and factors that can decrease the risk and potential imp
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Transitional shelter: understanding shelter from the emergency through reconstruction and beyond
This Innovation Case Study highlights the development of the transitional-shelter approach, using recent examples from several implementing agencies.
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Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations
This paper outlines key lessons related to the design and implementation of urban disaster-response programmes. It focuses on the response and early recovery phases of an urban emergency, and on natural disasters such as earthquakes and flooding.
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The state of the humanitarian system (2012)
This report presents a system-level mapping and analysis of the performance of international humanitarian assistance. Section 4.3.2 focuses on preparedness, disaster risk reduction and the rise of resilience.
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The state of the humanitarian system: assessing performance and progress
A system-level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance. Current efforts to increase humanitarian engagement and investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) should reap future benefits in terms of improved preparedness and more timely, efficient and locally grounded responses.
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Responding to earthquakes 2008: learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations
This briefing paper provides a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes, looking at preparedness, relief and recovery.

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Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered commitments.

The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

Contact information

http://www.alnap.org/
[email protected]
+44-1865-20-2635
Fax:
+44-1865-25-1438