CARE (0) Rapid Gender Analysis

Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) provides information about the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of women, men, boys and girls in a crisis situation.

Cardon, A. (2015) The ABCD Approach. Handbook and Tools. Approach Focused on Behaviour Change Determinants

Cabañero-Verzosa, C. (2005) Counting on Communication: The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project

The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project was one of the World Bank's first projects to demonstrate the value-added of strategic communication. The strategic communication component developed for this project included the use of formative research about values and attitudes with respect to child rearing, in order to develop and test effective messages. The communication strategy was developed in a highly participatory manner and […]

Bugge, J. (2017) Rumour has it: A Practice Guide to Working with Rumours

Several members of the Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) Network have recognised the need to work with rumours in their missions to prevent the loss of lives and alleviate suffering. Notably, Internews with their pioneering inter-agency model, the World Health Organisation and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have made considerable efforts to innovate in this area and engage other humanitarian […]

Brewis, A., Wutich, A. (2019) Why We Should Never Do It: Stigma as a Behavior Change Tool

Stigma is used as a tool for motivating health behaviour change, often effective at budging otherwise hard-to-shift behaviour. Shame-induced stigma most damages those already vulnerable, reinforcing health disparities. Global health use of shaming tactics can inadvertently worsen health-damaging stigma, especially for those with the least power. These effects, that drive additional health disparities and suffering, are difficult to prevent. Ethically and practically, stigma should never be deployed as a […]

Bourne, S. (2019) User-Centred Design and Humanitarian Adaptiveness

Gathering and acting on feedback from affected communities is a key means to identify potential triggers for change during the design and implementation of humanitarian programmes. This study is focused on user-centred design (UCD), an approach often used outside the humanitarian sector to design products and services that are tailored to the needs and preferences of end-users and are created with the users’ involvement in […]

Bonino, F., Warner, A. (2014) What Makes Feedback Mechanisms Work?

This literature review supports a broader ALNAP and CDA initiative aiming at producing evidence-informed guidance for humanitarian agencies on ways to strengthen the effectiveness of mechanisms for gathering feedback from affected populations in humanitarian contexts. It focuses on two key questions: (1) why and how humanitarian agencies seek, process, and respond to feedback from affected populations and (2) which elements have been identified as having […]

Bonino, F., Jean, I., Clarke, P.K. (2014) Humanitarian Feedback Mechanisms: Research, Evidence and Guidance

In 2012 ALNAP and CDA started collaborating on action research looking at feedback mechanisms in humanitarian contexts, to establish what makes them work effectively and to focus on bringing different stakeholders’ perspectives – particularly those of crisis-affected people – into the conversation. The case studies document the experience of three different agencies that use feedback mechanisms as part of their humanitarian programmes and operations: World […]

Bolton, L., Kanguru, L. (2013) Helpdesk Report: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa

Evidence and comments suggest that CLTS has been successful in some cases in Africa, however it is difficult to find strong data to support this. Claims to have achieved Open Defecation Free (ODF) status have often been exaggerated and estimates of numbers of ODF communities inflated. Verification systems need to be improved. Another problem is that ODF is an absolute condition, important as a community objective […]

Bloch, P., Toft, U., Reinbach, H.C., Clausen, L.T., Mikkelsen, B.E., Poulsen, K., Jensen, B.B. (2014) Revitalizing the Setting Approach. Supersettings for Sustainable Impact in Community Health Promotion

The concept of health promotion rests on aspirations aiming at enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. Health promotion action is facilitated in settings such as schools, homes and work places. As a contribution to the promotion of healthy lifestyles, we have further developed the setting approach in an effort to harmonise it with contemporary realities (and complexities) of health promotion and […]

Barrantes, S.A., Rodriguez, M., Pérez, R. (2009) Information Management and Communication in Emergencies and Disasters: Manual for Disaster Response Teams

Many specialists from the fields of communication and disaster management from Latin America and the Caribbean participated in developing this manual. The contents were tested and adapted under actual emergency and disaster conditions. The final product reflects consensus among the experts about the most important uses of information and communication in emergency situations. This manual focuses on operational aspects of disaster and emergency response as […]

Bandura, A. (1977) Self-Efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change

The present article presents an integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment. This theory states that psychological procedures, whatever their form, alter the level and strength of self-efficacy. It is hypothesized that expectations of personal efficacy determine whether coping behavior will be initiated, how much effort will be expended, and how long it will be sustained […]

Balfour, N., Otieno, P., Mutai, C., Thomas, A. (2014) CLTS in Fragile and Insecure Contexts: Experience from Somalia and South Sudan

During more than 20 years of civil conflict in both Somalia and South Sudan, sanitation interventions were mostly limited to construction of emergency latrines for affected populations or education on sanitation and hygiene, using the Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) approach, followed by fully subsidised latrine programmes for selected households. There is little evidence that these interventions achieved the desired results: recent surveys in Somalia […]

Ambuehl B., Tomberge, V.M.J., Kunwar, B.M., Schertenleib, A., Marks, S.J., Inauen, J. (2021) The Role of Psychological Ownership in Safe Water Management: A Mixed- Methods Study in Nepal

Long-term management and use of community-based safe water systems are essential to reduce water-related health risks in rural areas. Water sector professionals frequently cite water users’ sense of ownership for the water system as essential for its continuity. This study aims to provide the first insight into users’ understanding of psychological ownership, as well as generalizable data, regarding safe water management in rural Nepal. In […]

Ager, A., Stark, S., Potts, A. (2010) Participative Ranking Methodology: A Brief Guide: Version 1.1.

This document describes the participative ranking methodology, a development of the participatory rapid appraisal ranking method. Participative ranking is a mixed-methods approach to data collection, in which a group of knowledgeable participants are guided in generating responses to a specific question or set of questions. It draws on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to generate rich, contextualised data that can nonetheless be counted, ranked, and […]

Smith, W.A., Strand, J. (2008) Social Marketing Behavior: A Practical Resource for Social Change Professionals

Adebo, S. (2000) Training Manual on Participatory Rural Appraisal

The PLA/PRA approach is used with the following assumptions: 1. Rural communities form active foundation for rural development 2. Communities need committed local leaders to stir up their development 3. Communities have knowledge and information but it needs to be organized 4. Communities have resources but they need to be mobilized. They can introduce projects, acting primarily on their own resources. 5. Community organizations are among the many, which are […]

ACF (2005) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Populations at Risk

ACF (2013) Conducting KAP Surveys: A Learning Document Based on KAP Failures

Currion, P. (2014) Humanitarian Needs Assessment. The Good Enough Guide

Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organizations urgently need to improve how they do assessments. ACAPS and the Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB) have produced this guide to fill the gap that existed for a practical resource that pulls together the main lessons learned from various humanitarian initiatives […]