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Learning Paper: From protocol to reality - lessons for scaling up collective humanitarian responses
Overview
The IASC Humanitarian System-Wide Scale-Up protocols are internal measures designed to critically enhance the humanitarian response and to encourage IASC member organizations and partners to rapidly mobilize the necessary operational capacities and resources to respond. They are activated in response to a sudden-onset emergency or significantly deteriorating crises, or those in which the humanitarian response is stalled. They are also used where the capability to lead, coordinate and deliver assistance and protection does not match the crises’ scale, complexity and urgency. The decision to activate the scale-up protocols is based on five criteria related to the crisis response in question: scale, urgency, complexity, capacity and risk of failure to deliver effectively and at scale to affected populations. The protocols have been in place for five years and have been activated 11 times. This period has seen challenges with deactivation and an increasing number of simultaneous activations similar to those previously experienced. In light of these observations, the IAHE Steering Group commissioned this review, on the request of the Emergency Directors Group (EDG), to enable learning for the humanitarian system and to provide lessons for future activations. The review aims to provide the basis for discussion around improvements in the use and implementation of the protocols, in light of activations in four focus countries: Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, Haiti and Somalia.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | Glyn Taylor |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
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Learning Paper: From protocol to reality - lessons for scaling up collective humanitarian responses
