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HPG has established a strong record in carrying out large-scale and complex evaluations. These provide a valuable 'point of entry' for HPG's work in understanding and influencing humanitarian policy and practice. In turn, this ensures that the group's work is strongly rooted in field experience, and that the evaluation process is informed by research and other studies carried out by HPG.

HPG is particularly interested in evaluations of strategic significance to the sector, where there are opportunities for learning and effecting change.

Publications in this series

Afghanistan: a case study - strengthening principled humanitarian response capacities

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 January 2012

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Andy Featherstone

This study seeks to examine the challenges to adhering to these principles in practice and how donor funding restrictions can hamper the ability to provide principled humanitarian assistance. The case study in Afghanistan is the second of four case studies (Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and South Sudan are the other three).

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Nutrition and food security response analysis in emergency contexts

Publication - Discussion papers - 30 December 2011

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Simon Levine and Claire Chastre

This paper takes a new look at the old problem of weaknesses in the integration of food security and nutrition approaches. The paper highlights the differences in the way the two sectors work in all stages from problem identification through to evaluation, and proposes that better casual analysis and response analysis could be a meeting ground to improve collaboration and impact.

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The role of networks in the international humanitarian system

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 May 2011

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Sarah Collinson

This study recognises that assessing the importance of networks depends not only on exploring how well individual networks function, but on how networks interact to influence particular and global humanitarian actions and outcomes.

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Risk in humanitarian action: towards a common approach?

Publication - Research reports and studies - 8 February 2011

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Victoria Metcalfe, Ellen Martin and Sara Pantuliano

This paper explores the range of contextual, programmatic and institutional risks involved in humanitarian action, and how these risks are viewed and managed by the humanitarian community.

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