ALNAP Members Poll March 2010
Introduction The ALNAP Secretariat relies upon the opinions of Full and Observer members to ensure that our work continues to be relevant, useful , and accessible During February and March 2010 the ALNAP Communications Officer conducted 50 phone surveys Respondents included representatives of 38 Full Member organisations and 12 Observer members Red Cross/ Full Member Red UN Indep./ Constituency NGO Donor Crescent Agencies Academic Interviewees 15 9 4 4 6
Agenda Overall value of ALNAP to its members ALNAP Meetings In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Products In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Communications In past 18 months Year ahead Ideas for the future
Overall, how satisfied are you with ALNAP‟s work in the past 12-18 months? 100% Don't Know 80% 5- Very satisfied 60% 4 40% 3 2 20% 1- Not at all satisfied 0% NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total “ F antastic resource- Highly regarded across the humanitarian sector ” – NGO “ A very valuable platform that has established itself and allows a dialogue to happen ” – Red Cross “ Good at systematically collecting its members’ viewpoints on the utility of its processes and products e.g. the members survey ” – NGO
Agenda Overall value of ALNAP to its members ALNAP Meetings In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Products In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Communications In past 18 months Year ahead Ideas for the future
What impact did the 25th ALNAP meeting have on you and your organisation? Other Concerned by lack of Networking opportunity non-traditional actors No impact seen Direct impact on current work Waiting to see the follow up Take ideas back to Innovation Fair organisation particularly useful “An important means of updating knowledge as a whole network of practitioners are sharing across boundaries” – Indep./Acad . “I was disappointed to see so few representatives of Southern actors - Also need to bring in representatives of emerging donors and private sector”– UN Agency
Would you support a return to biannual meetings? 50 40 30 No Yes 20 10 0 NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total The current opinion within the membership remains against a return to biannual meetings Donors and Observer members are most opposed to a change
Would you support a return to biannual meetings? Cost & Timing- “ Hard for me to internally justify going to two meetings ” -Donor Two large meetings can be overwhelming- “ Each time we are resetting to start. Second meeting each year should act as stock-taking on the previous .” - Red Cross Biannual meetings to fulfil a key role for ALNAP- “ Whole community comes together, which is relatively rare for us. Money well spent” – NGO Geographic spread- “C onsider repeating the meeting in two different regions to ensure everyone can get involved.” – Obs. Member
Will the location of the next meeting in Kuala Lumpur affect your decision to attend that event? 50 45 40 35 No 30 25 Yes 20 15 10 5 0 NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total The location of the next meeting will significantly affect members‟ decision to attend, particularly amongst European and North American Observer members
Will the location of the next meeting in Kuala Lumpur affect your decision to attend? Over half of FM respondents endorsed the principle of meetings in southern locations - “ Always been keen for ALNAP to get into the South. Recognise that it makes life difficult for some, but the benefits outweigh those concerns ” – Red Cross Plan to combine with other activities in the region- “ We can take advantage of opportunities in the region ” – Indep./ Acad. Agenda - “ Dependent upon the focus of the meeting- Needs to be relevant to our organisation ” - NGO Easier for Southern members or send local staff - “We‟ll a sk one of our representatives in SE Asia to attend ” - Donor
Do you feel it would be useful for ALNAP to host regular, smaller workshops outside of Annual Meetings? 50 40 30 No 20 Yes 10 0 NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total This question provoked a range of useful ideas: Smaller meetings to achieve geographic spread A means to widen engagement with ALNAP Online meetings and webinars Potential to generate outputs and products “ Annual meeting can be unwieldy- we could actually learn something tangible from these workshops ” - Donor
Agenda Overall value of ALNAP to its members ALNAP Meetings In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Products In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Communications In past 18 months Year ahead Ideas for the future
Please give examples of which ALNAP products and tools your organisation has used over the past 12-18 months? Other resources TEC Evaluation guides Protection Guide Haiti portal Job postings Website Lessons papers SOHS Evaluation guides and lessons papers are the most commonly used products “ Use the OECD-DAC evaluation guidelines all the time. Also use the RTE guide ” - NGO “ Use evaluation tools in shaping our own resources ” - Red Cross “ Use lessons paper for briefings for operational staff and speeches for senior managers ” - Donor
Please give examples of how your organisation has used ALNAP products and tools over the past 12-18 months? Other resources mentioned include: Beneficiary feedback mechanism Accountability framework Innovations case studies TEC – as course material
How valuable have you found the 8th Review of Humanitarian Action as a resource? Grouping of comments on the value of the 8th RHA Other Too long Direct impact Not used by others Useful/ valuable Take up- “ Disseminating learning to bring about change needs streamlined action-orientated resources ” – UN Impact- “ For our work on impact assessments it was particularly relevant and timely. Utility strengthened by the quality of the product.” - UN
How would you rate the quality of the State of the Humanitarian System report? 100% 80% Not read 5- Excellent 60% 4 3 40% 2 20% 1- Poor 0% NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total “ Bold undertaking, worth building upon and improving ” - NGO “ Considering the limitations, scope of the piece was impressive ” – Red Cross
How would you rate the quality of the State of the Humanitarian System report? Methodology “ Actually looking at a section of the system rather than the whole ” - Red Cross “ I would have liked to have seen slightly more detail in some sections ” – Donor Complementarity “Wanted to see the how this fits in with... other initiatives” - Donor Layout “ Helpful that it is short and readable- gets those not involved with humanitarianism to take an interest ” - Donor
When would you like to see the next State of the Humanitarian System report published? 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Never 2011 2012 2013 Beyond 2013 Don't know “ Two years gives sense of reflective piece in a fast moving sector ” - NGO “ Should be co-ordinated with other complementary reports ” – Obs.
How useful do you find the ALNAP lessons paper to your work and your organisation‟s work? 100% Don't Know 80% 5- Very useful 60% 4 40% 3 2 20% 1- Not useful 0% NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total “ Regularly providing them to operational staff, most hands on product that ALNAP produces ” - Donor “ Heard about widespread use in Haiti. Feedback I hear is always positive ” – Obs. “ Not for my work specifically but know the value to the whole community is huge ” - Obs.
Should ALNAP establish the capacity to provide tailored papers on a more responsive basis? 50 40 Don't Know 30 No 20 Yes 10 0 NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total “ Enormous need and opportunity to capture, disseminate and keep learning at practitioner level ” - NGO “ As ALNAP’s key resource it deserves greater focus and resources ” - Donor “ Contextualising within the agency is just as important as the general context, which ALNAP can’t be expected to do ” - NGO
Should ALNAP produce a comprehensive good practice guide on how to conduct evaluations of humanitarian action? 50 40 Don't know 30 No 20 Yes 10 0 NGO Donor R/C UN Indep Obs Total Amongst respondents that stated an opinion 70% support this idea Support was evenly distributed across the ALNAP constituencies
Should ALNAP produce a comprehensive good practice guide on how to conduct evaluations? “ Now is the time- Emerging nations that are becoming more involved in humanitarian action could benefit from greater guidance ” – Indep/ Acad. “ A streamlined, short summary document of methodologies and lessons learned would be useful rather than a book ” - NGO “ We already use the OECD-DAC Guide. Perhaps worth re-looking at that rather than re-inventing another product ” – Donor “ There can never be a definitive guide to evaluations - The context for each evaluation changes so it can’t be standardised ” - Red Cross
Agenda Overall value of ALNAP to its members ALNAP Meetings In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Products In past 18 months Year ahead ALNAP Communications In past 18 months Year ahead Ideas for the future
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