Facilitation Team: Southern Africa-Indian Ocean (SA-IO) Disaster Preparedness Workshop for ECHO and SA-IO Partners
The Southern Africa-Indian Ocean (SAIO) region is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. The EU, through DG ECHO, has continuously supported DRR interventions in SAIO region since 2008. In 2019, EU has notably provided €7 million to increase the preparedness capacity of communities and authorities such as through early warning capacity and […]
Disaster Waste Management in the Caribbean, for UN Environment
Disaster risk in the Caribbean is among the highest in the world. Each year, an average of six tropical storms become hurricanes in the Caribbean (NOAA 2019). With climate change, more frequent and stronger hurricanes are expected. Floods, earthquakes and landslides are also common occurrences. These rapid-onset hazards in the Caribbean are highly destructive and […]
“Alma Resiliente”: A Story of the evolution of the Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies in Bolivia (CAHB)
IRMA researched and documented the evolution of an inter-agency endeavour to improve cooperation in the fields of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. This story of the Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies in Bolivia (CAHB), which was founded in 2008 and is still operational 10 years later, is one of adaptation and resilience, with lessons […]
Sustaining Resilience study for CRS projects
Have you ever wondered what happened after a project was implemented? Were you able to return to project areas several years after a project ended? Are the changes brought about by a project sustained after the project ends? If so, why? What do people in the communities think about the project? Such questions are all […]
Base/Endline Evaluation and TPM of WFP/Ethiopia’s Sustainable Livelihood Promotion program for Refugees and Host Population
Aiming to bridging the humanitarian-peace-development nexus, WFP has launched the four-year program “Innovative approaches to building Resilience for Refugees and Host Populations in Ethiopia (2018-2022): From Humanitarian Assistance to Self-Reliance” funded jointly by SIDA and DANIDA. WFP is committed to conduct a formal pre/post mixed methods evaluation using panel households to measure the performance of […]
Developing an innovative Toolkit to support NRC’s Protection and Access through Negotiation Capacity Building
NRC is implementing an OFDA-funded project known internally as “Protection and Access through Negotiation” Capacity or PAN-Cap. Overall, NRC projects on access and related issues aim to ensure that the most vulnerable people are protected and able to access humanitarian assistance. With this vision in mind, PAN-Cap aims to: Increase the confidence of field teams […]
Contribution Mapping on Housing, Land & Property (HLP) for NRC
NRC aims to track the impact of its programs by assessing contribution to change and internal learning processes. Among its Information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA) objectives, one of NRC ‘sub core competency’ area is Housing, Land & Property (HLP). Selected by NRC as one of the global thematic reviews for 2019, IRMA was commissioned […]
Driving forward the Localisation Agenda
Recommendations for operational practices that strengthen the leadership of national and local actors in partnership-based humanitarian action globally Transforming aid relationships between local, national and international NGOs starts with examining the quality of existing partnerships. IRMA recently conducted a significant multi-country research effort on this topic, that resulted in a set of recommendations for operational […]
Research for Save the Children on Scalable Approaches to Child-Centred DRR
IRMA was commissioned by Save the Children to conduct research to address a critical gap in Child Centred DRR and to strengthen the capacity of effectively scaling up CCDRR initiatives, including Comprehensive School Safety (CSS). Led by Marilise and Lezlie, this research was guided by Dr. Hannah Vaughn-Lee and Isabelle Bremaud as IRMA Associates, as […]
Elaborating evidence on the impact of SDC’s global Disaster Risk Reduction portfolio
Lezlie led a team (for Particip GmbH) on an Independent Evaluation of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)’s Performance in Disaster Risk Reduction (and Climate Change) between 2010-2017 globally. The evaluation was conducted between November 2018 and May 2019 with a team of seven, visiting seven countries (Tajikistan, Morocco, Bolivia, Peru, Thailand, Myanmar, […]
