Evaluation of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy’s (HLA) Preparedness Portfolio 2018-2021

In 2015 Save the Children UK (SCUK) founded the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA). The goal of the HLA is to improve crisis response by preparing national and local humanitarian actors to act effectively when disaster strikes. From 2015 to 2021, the HLA partnered with the IKEA Foundation that provided funding to the HLA. In 2021, SCUK commissioned Key Aid Consulting (KAC) to conduct this summative evaluation. The evaluation takes stock of the achievements of the HLA learning programmes as well as on the long-term changes it had on local and national humanitarian responders’ (learners) lives and careers.