ALNAP releases its 2019-2020 Annual Report

10 Aug 2020

ALNAP has released its Annual Report for the financial year 2019–2020 which details the Network's impact across its four strategic focus areas.

In addition to the main report, the Secretariat has prepared short briefs for key ALNAP topics and you can directly see ALNAP's activities at a glance using the toggles below.

Published a variety of research studies, case studies and supporting material

ALNAP Studies 

ALNAP Papers 

ALNAP Case Studies 

ALNAP SOHS 2018 Case Studies 

Other 

Shared knowledge through networks, events and meetings
  • Hosted or co-hosted 22 events, 13 of which were in partnership with ALNAP Members 
  • Held six webinars, including the ALNAP Annual Meeting Study launch ‘Making aid work for people in crisis’ 
  • Facilitated a Community of Practice (Humanitarian Monitoring and Evaluation) with a combined total of 1,148 members 
  • Hosted eight SOHS 2018 panel discussions across four continents 
  • Established a strategically focused ‘M&E Network’ of practitioners and hosted workshops on outcome monitoring in Geneva, on new approaches to monitoring in London and on outcome monitoring, qualitative approaches and evaluation in Nairobi with the Danish Refugee Council 
  • Held a series of in-country presentations to launch the ALNAP study Beyond Assumptions: How humanitarians make operational decisions 
  • Facilitated a resource pack pilot workshop on strengthening learning in frontline humanitarian response in Paris with Solidarités International 
Strengthened the Network’s knowledge management function
  • Expanded the Humanitarian Evaluation, Learning and Performance (HELP) Library by almost 10 per cent, to hold 18,268 resources. HELP is the world’s largest and most complete resource library for evaluation and learning related to humanitarian action 
  • Expanded the Urban Resource Portal to hold 2,951 documents 
  • Continued to add documents to the Syria Portal, a single site for evaluations and Lessons Papers related to the Syria regional emergency (now containing 2,056 resources) 
  • Launched a COVID-19 response portal to support humanitarian actors in their response to the pandemic. The portal holds a vast collection of resources, which are relevant to responding to epidemics and pandemics including the planning, adaptation and delivery of humanitarian activities in response to COVID-19. The portal went live on 18 March and had more than 2,500 users by the end of March 
Disseminated Member research, events and opinions
  • Updated and improved the new website, which incorporates several important new functionalities to enhance user experience. The website had 502,757 page views and 257,690 sessions between April 2019 and March 2020. 
  • Published 17 blog posts, most of them authored by guest bloggers 
  • Regularly tweeted Member events and publications to more than 12,200 Twitter followers 
Collaborated with other initiatives
  • The Secretariat team participated actively in inter-agency initiatives and advisory groups 
  • ALNAP was joined by two new Members, taking the total number of Members as of 31 March 2020 to 102.