Embracing the Protection Outcome Mindset: We All Have a Role to Play

This paper shares InterAction’s recent observations putting results-based protection into practice and recommends areas for greater investment by humanitarian actors. Starting with what it means to recognise protection as an outcome manifested as reduced risk, this piece looks at the challenges to generate useful protection analysis for effective decision-making, and how to engage the necessary breadth of stakeholders. It also looks at how to link the different levels involved in humanitarian response and opportunities to pursue protection outcomes through formal inter-agency humanitarian architecture. Finally, it explores opportunities for measuring risk reduction and takes a particular look at the role that humanitarians play in this endeavour.