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Lessons Papers

ALNAP promotes sector-wide learning between humanitarian organisations and from previous experiences to improve the performance of humanitarian action. One way that ALNAP does this is by circulating lessons papers in response to recent humanitarian crises. These are predominantly based on the evaluation findings held in ALNAP’s evaluative reports database, and draw on additional material as appropriate.

Some lessons papers below have been submitted by ALNAP members or produced in collaboration with other organisations. Others have been commissioned by the ALNAP secretariat.

Responding to Earthquakes 2008

Responding to Earthquakes: Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations [636kb]
July 2008
by John Cosgrave

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Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar 2008

Cyclone Nargis: Lessons for operational agencies [724kb]
May 2008
by Ben Ramalingam and Sara Pavanello

Related article:
Will corruption hurt Myanmar relief effort? AlertNet, 19 June 2008

Flood Disasters 2008

Flood Disasters: learning from previous relief and recovery operations [156kb]
January 2008
by Khurshid Alam
published by ALNAP/Provention Consortium

Media release:
Flood response in southern Africa should draw on key lessons from global experience ODI, 21 January 2008

Slow-onset Disasters 2007

Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity. Learning from previous relief and recovery responses [292kb]
June 2007
by Kerren Hedlund
published by ALNAP/Provention Consortium

South Asia Earthquake 2005

South Asia Earthquake 2005: Learning from Previous Recovery Operations [682kb]
December 2005
by Tony Beck
published by ALNAP/Provention Consortium

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Urdu

South Asia Earthquake 2005: Learning from Previous Earthquakes [675kb]
September 2005
by Tony Beck
published by ALNAP/Provention Consortium

Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004

Tsunami Emergency - Lessons from Previous Natural Disasters [84kb]
January 2005
by Rachel Houghton

(includes Oxfam Case Study on Cash Responses, 2001)

Liberia Crisis 2003
Key Lessons from Evaluations of Humanitarian Action in Liberia [66kb]
September 2003
by Rachel Houghton

Iraq 2003

Iraq and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Previous Evaluations [50kb]
May 2003
by Niels Dabelstein and Rob Van Den Berg

Afghanistan 2001
Aid Responses to Afghanistan: Lessons from Previous Evaluations [49kb]
12-13th December 2001
Submitted by Niels Dabelstein, Chair of the DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation to the DAC Senior Level Meeting

 

 
One year after the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake, a man and child fill containers from an Oxfam-donated water container in Balakot, Pakistan. (c) 2006 Jacob Simkin, Courtesy of Photoshare
 

Studies Index

Earthquakes 2008
Cyclone Nargis 2008
Flood disasters 2008
Slow-onset disasters 2007
Earthquakes 2005
Tsunami 2004
Liberia Crisis 2003
Iraq 2003
Afghanistan 2001


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