InterAction Project Brief - Results-Based Protection

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Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
01 Oct 2012
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Protection, human rights & security
Organisations
InterAction

There is increasing recognition among humanitarian actors of the need to enhance and demonstrate the impact through protection programming to achieve actual change in people’s lives in terms of reduced risks of violence, coercion, exploitation and deprivation.

Practitioners need to grapple with some fundamental questions: What do “results” look like for protection? What makes a result protective? What key elements are necessary to ensure that efforts to enhance protection are results-based? Do the methods we use support a results based approach? How might a results-based approach achieve short, medium and long-term protection outcomes?