Putting learning to work: Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years

At ALNAP we believe that rigorous evidence and shared learning enable humanitarians to deliver better outcomes for people affected by crisis. As we come to the end of our 25th anniversary year, we asked a range of humanitarians to tell us how they’ve used ALNAP’s resources and to share the impact ALNAP has had during their careers.

Whether it’s local actors constructing transformative arguments, diverse groups discussing new approaches, or practitioners being able to access timely and useful information, these testimonials illustrate how ALNAP’s learning network gives humanitarians what they need to put learning to work. They also highlight the ways in which the international humanitarian system urgently needs to change.

Hear from:

Madara Hettiarachchi - Director of Programmes & Accountability, The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)
Loreine De La Cruz - Executive Director, Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP)
Manu Gupta - Director, The Sustainable Environment & Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), India
Jessica Alexander - Policy-editor-at-large, The New Humanitarian
Mihir Bhatt - Director, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)
Ben Ramalingam - Executive Director, United Kingdom Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
Arbie Baguios - Researcher and Founder, Aid Re-imagined
Ignacio Packer - Executive Director, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
Hugo Slim - Senior Research Fellow, Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Ignacio Packer: “ALNAP puts me personally on a continuous learning curve”

Voices from ALNAP's first 25 years | Ben Ramalingam: “In a sector often seen as painfully devoid of the collaborative impulse, ALNAP shines out”

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Loreine De La Cruz: “I was struck by how ALNAP’s mixed leadership body was focused on changing the humanitarian architecture and indeed the whole system”

Loreine dela Cruz

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Manu Gupta: “ALNAP has been a great partner in our push for the localisation agenda”

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Mihir Bhatt: “ALNAP is a very careful listener. It picks up low volume, distant murmurs and adds the issues from the murmur to the agenda”

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Jessica Alexander: “I often turn to ALNAP to understand how aid is changing, current trends and practices”

Jessica Alexander

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Dr Hugo Slim: “Thanks to ALNAP, we can look at ourselves in the mirror every few years in the State of the Humanitarian System Report”

Voices from ALNAP’s first 25 years | Arbie Baguios: “In my work focusing on localisation and the ethics of aid, I’ve used ALNAP’s research to find concrete examples in various contexts where local actors have made the difference in responding to crises”