Scoping study-what works in protection and how do we know (GPPI-March 2013)

The “Scoping study: what works in protection and how do we know?”, written by Urban Reichhold and Andrea Binder and published by the Global Public Policy Institute (March 2013) focus on the efforts undertaken by humanitarian organizations and the larger relief system to improve their ability to evaluate the impact of their work: “Relief organizations have, in general, found it easier to measure the impact of their interventions in relation to material needs than activities geared to enhancing protection. For this reason, this scoping study asks “what works in protection and how do we know?” Three related questions will be discussed in the following order. The first is how

to define humanitarian and human rights protection. The second is how to define success for different types of humanitarian and human rights protection interventions. The third question is how to measure the impact of different protection-oriented interventions”