Learning Links | academic resources and teaching tools for humanitarian courses and programmes

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ALNAP wants to provide future generations of humanitarians with unfettered access to our very best resources: 25 years worth of high quality research, learning and guidance on countless issues related to humanitarian performance.  So, we have put together our first ever resource pack for academics, educators, trainers and students - as well as educational institutes - within the humanitarian sector. 

Introducing ALNAP Learning Links - the gateway to more than 800 ALNAP-authored reports, analyses, blogs and multimedia assets, organised into subject areas aligned to academic courses and programmes with a humanitarian focus. The pack is available for you to download from the sidebar.

ALNAP resources to suit your syllabus

We are sharing these for use as teaching tools, for course exercises, assignments, presentations or as background reading. You can browse through topics, choosing the ALNAP resources that best suit your syllabus. 

Themes covered extensively within ALNAP Learning Links include:  

• humanitarian principles 
• the evolution of aid 
• localisation and decolonisation 
• accountability to affected populations 
• cash programming 
• human mobility and forced displacement 
• food security and hunger 
• pandemics and epidemics 
• climate-related disasters 
• humanitarian leadership and decision-making 
• adaptive management 
• safeguarding and protection 
• innovation and technology in the humanitarian sector 
• and many, many, many more. 

Quick and easy access

ALNAP Learning Links also offers quick and easy access to an invaluable library of ALNAP case studies spanning multiple humanitarian topics and contexts and, vitally, ALNAP’s flagship State of the Humanitarian System reports. There are many audiovisual assets, as well as materials in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. 

Here is just a flavour of the type of resources that can be accessed:

• BLOG | Feeling the heat: lessons for humanitarian policymakers and programme planners on adapting to climate change, 2021 
• ESSAYS | Localisation Re-Imagined, a six-part series on locally-led humanitarian action, 2021-22 
• VIDEO | I want you to hear me - voices of Syrian refugees, Syrian refugees in Lebanon speak about their experiences, 2014 
• CASE STUDY | Learning from the Ebola Response in Cities: Responding in the context of urban quarantine, 2017 

Alongside the resources, where we can we would be happy to help find guest lecturers to speak on these issues from among ALNAP staff, members or our wider network. 

Learning is central to ALNAP’s mission.  We strive to be a reassuring, reliable presence for humanitarian educators and students, to be with them every step of the way on your courses and career paths. We hope you find ALNAP Learning Links essential reading. 

Dedicated resources for M&E practitioners and decision-makers

As part of ALNAP Learning Links, we have also put together a dedicated resource pack for monitoring and evaluation practitioners and decision-makers within the humanitarian sector, including research papers, guidelines, audiovisual materials, blogs, case studies, e-learning courses and webinars.  

These can be used on existing academic or training programmes, and to promote peer-to-peer learning and practitioner exchanges in any operational or learning setting. Find out more here.