ALNAP

05/06/2026

Register for our Global Humanitarian Assistance report launch!

With the steepest cuts on record, 2025 saw humanitarian financing backslide to levels last seen nearly a decade ago. The launch event for this year's Global Humanitarian Assistance report will provide critical insights into the latest funding trends. What are the important questions you want answered about finance for humanitarian response? Post them in the comments below. And register now for our 23 June events to hear your questions answered.

🗓️ Tuesday 23 June
🔗 Links to join online:
Session 1 - 10:00 UTC (English with Arabic interpretation) https://buff.ly/XsGb0eu
Session 2 - 14:00 UTC (English with French interpretation) https://buff.ly/9yUkPXI

03/06/2026

‼️ Let's learn together!

ALNAP is in partnering with Evaluators International for Global Evaluation Initiative's Evaluation Week, exploring the role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation.

Topic:
🔹 How AI is shaping evidence generation and use in Caribbean development policy
Regional and international experts will explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of artificial intelligence for evaluation and evidence use in humanitarian and development contexts.

Details:
📅 5 June 2026 | 9:00AM (UTC-5/Jamaica)
🔗 Register - https://buff.ly/zKB8U5C

Other partners include the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies & the Caribbean Development Bank

Dorothy Mae Albiento

02/06/2026

As countries respond to an outbreak of , which continues to challenge humanitarian and public health systems, access to shared learning and practical experience remains essential.

🔎 ALNAP'S Lessons Paper: Responding to Ebola epidemics key lessons for humanitarian practitioners from Ebola responses since 2014.

See the top lessons related to the current outbreak below and you can explore all lessons here: https://buff.ly/xpuj8yI

02/06/2026

‼️ Let's learn together!

ALNAP is in partnering with Evaluators International for Global Evaluation Initiative's Evaluation Week, exploring the role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation.

Topic:
🔹 The role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation
Regional and international experts will explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of artificial intelligence for evaluation and evidence use in humanitarian and development contexts.

Details:
📅 4 June 2026 | 9:30AM (UTC-5/Jamaica)
🔗 Register - https://buff.ly/jYClSTf

Other partners include the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies

Dorothy Mae Albiento

01/06/2026

‼️ Don't miss this interesting learning session!

ALNAP is in partnering with Caribbean Evaluators International for Global Evaluation Initiative 's Glocal Evaluation Week 2026, exploring the role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation.

Regional and international experts will explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of artificial intelligence for evaluation and evidence use in humanitarian and development contexts.
Topic include:
🔹 Emerging experiences of Caribbean evaluators integrating AI into their practice

📅 2 June 2026 | 9:30AM (UTC-5) - https://buff.ly/kYVNLjG

Other partners include the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, and the Caribbean Development Bank

31/05/2026

Le système humanitaire international fait face à des budgets en baisse — mais une source d'impact majeure est là, sous nos yeux : les réseaux d'entraide locaux. 🌍

En partenariat avec Local to Global Protection (L2GP), ALNAP a passé en r***e les données de 25 pays pour comprendre comment les financements externes affectent la résilience des communautés.

Les résultats bousculent les idées reçues : un soutien flexible et à la demande peut démultiplier la portée et l'efficacité de ces groupes — mais imposer des exigences bureaucratiques rigides risque d'étouffer l'adaptabilité qui fait précisément leur force.

🔗 Lire le résumé exécutif en français : https://buff.ly/NipsL3h

Partagez vos réflexions sur ces enjeux : [email protected]

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

31/05/2026

What if actually kept up with technology — and the savings didn't just disappear into trimmed budgets?

In a two-part commentary, Elias Sagmeister (Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) makes the case for rethinking how AI fits into humanitarian evaluation — from cutting costs to refocusing human judgment where it matters most.

🔎 Read both and reflect on where your organisation sits in this shift:
Part 1 → https://buff.ly/kC6pKxl
Part 2 → https://buff.ly/oEsxwLW

Share your own commentary on M&E topics: [email protected]

30/05/2026

ALNAP is in partnering with Caribbean Evaluators International for Global Evaluation Initiative 's Glocal Evaluation Week 2026, exploring the role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation.

Regional and international experts will explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of artificial intelligence for evaluation and evidence use in humanitarian and development contexts.

Topics include:
🔹 Emerging experiences of Caribbean evaluators integrating AI into their practice
🔹 The role of AI in climate resilience, disaster response, and humanitarian evaluation
🔹 How AI is shaping evidence generation and use in Caribbean development policy

Join the conversations:
📅 2 June 2026 | 9:30AM (UTC-5) - https://glocalevalweek.org/event/artificial-intelligence-evaluation-practice-experiences-caribbean-evaluators
📅 4 June 2026 | 9:30 AM (UTC-5) - https://glocalevalweek.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-evidence-use-caribbean-development-policy
📅 5 June 2026 | 9:00 AM (UTC-5) - https://glocalevalweek.org/event/ai-and-evaluation-complex-contexts-climate-resilience-disaster-response-and-humanitarian

Other partners include the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, and the Caribbean Development Bank

28/05/2026

As outbreaks continue to challenge humanitarian and public health systems, access to shared learning and practical experience remains essential.

ALNAP has created a dedicated Ebola Collection bringing together a wide range of resources from Ebola-affected countries and response practitioners — including reports, evaluations, webinars, podcasts, videos, commentaries, and short and long-form reads.

The collection aims to make diverse perspectives and operational learning easier to access for humanitarian actors, researchers, and decision-makers working on epidemic response and preparedness.

We are also pleased to share ALNAP’s Responding to Ebola epidemics lessons paper, which identifies key lessons for humanitarian practitioners from Ebola responses since 2014.

Explore the resources here:
🔹 Ebola Collection: https://buff.ly/FWD853F
🔹 Lessons Paper: https://buff.ly/3GsEN2P

📣 Is your organisation working on the Ebola response?
We invite you to share your learning resources with the humanitarian community — including evaluations, webinars, podcasts, commentaries, case studies, and more.




Photo: UNMIL/Emmanuel Tobey fans

27/05/2026

What if the savings from AI didn't just disappear into trimmed budgets?

In the follow-up to his first commentary, Elias Sagmeister asks: now that AI can take on the heavy lifting of data collection, where should human evaluators be putting their energy?

In this commentary, Elias says, "Analysis is therefore the stage that needs more human involvement, not less" — because AI synthesises toward consensus, mirrors promotional tones, and misses the political dynamics any experienced evaluator would flag.

He also makes the case for extending the evaluator's mandate beyond the final report — with follow-up milestones at three and six months to actually hold organisations accountable to their own findings.

And the cost case is compelling: a learning evaluation on this model could run EUR €50,000–80,000, down from EUR €100,000–150,000 today.

🔎 Read the full commentary: https://buff.ly/uBityjr

Share with us your own commentary on a range of M&E topics! Send us an email at [email protected]!




Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
Asia Pacific Evaluation Association
African Evaluation Association - AfrEA
Caribbean Evaluators International

What should evaluators be doing with some of the time and money this frees up? More of what humans are uniquely good at, and more of what tends to get cut first, when budgets are tight.