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

Author(s)
Alice Obrecht
Publication language
English
Pages
44pp
Date published
01 Sep 2017
Publisher
ALNAP
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Evidence, Funding and donors
Organisations
ALNAP

A significant World Humanitarian Summit outcome, the Grand Bargain reforms aim to make the humanitarian system more financially efficient and fit for purpose.

But, Alice Obrecht suggests, these reforms cannot be successfully achieved without paying attention to how donors gather, use and share evidence and information.

Drawing on ideas from the public health sector and charity evaluation, Using Evidence to Allocate Humanitarian Resources suggests ways forward which can be incorporated into ongoing reform efforts: clarifying priorities, investing in evidence, coordinating and consolidating current data sets, and adapting.