Jennifer Doherty

Jen is a Research Fellow for Evidence and Humanitarian Policy. She works on a range of research focused on humanitarian policy and practice, including accountability to affected populations and learning for frontline responders.

Jen has over 10 years’ experience in humanitarian and development research and practice. At ALNAP, she has led the development of resources for frontline learning, supported the synthesis of lessons from previous responses and is an author on ALNAP’s flagship publication the 2022 State of the Humanitarian System Report. Previously, Jen gained practical experience of humanitarian response in South Asia and accountability programming in sub-Saharan Africa. She has a methodological background in both quantitative systematic reviews and qualitative research in post-conflict settings. Her PhD from George Washington University explored the political economy of ethnically-divided contexts. Jen is passionate about supporting humanitarian learning through combining documented evidence with tacit practitioner experience and local knowledge generation.