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Inter-Agency Research and Analysis Network | |
 IARAN Official Logo | |
| Purpose | Humanitarian |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | London, U.K. |
| Products | Independent Foresight & Humanitarian Analysis |
| Services | Strategic Humanitarian Foresight |
Official language | English |
Parent organization | French Institute of International and Strategic Affairs & Save the Children International |
| Website | https://iaran.org/ |
The Inter-Agency Research and Analysis Network (IARAN) is an independent think tank and boutique consultancy focused on strategic foresight for humanitarians. Established in 2012 with the vision of enabling strategic thinking and building better futures for and with people in need, IARAN currently produces independent foresight and strategic analysis through training, mentoring, coaching and counselling to key humanitarian actors.[1]
History
[edit]Founded in 2012 as a collaboration between The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IFRI) and Save the Children International, IARAN emerged from the need to provide strategic thinking to a reactive humanitarian system.[2] During its early years, IARAN work existed embedded within humanitarian agencies to develop and design analytical products to support decision-making. In 2014, the IARAN project transitioned towards a larger scale with a partnership between IFRI and Action Contre la Faim. Through these partnerships, IARAN pioneered and adapted innovative strategic foresight methods aimed at inserting futures thinking into the humanitarian ecosystem.
In 2019, IARAN became an independent entity, leveraging collaboration and driving organizational change in the humanitarian system. Today IARAN remains a key player in the humanitarian world. Its unique forward-looking approach in a sector characterized by crises and urgency makes it one of the few organizations in the world that uses foresight to provide anticipatory thinking to the continuous crisis-affected humanitarian ecosystem. To do so, IARAN is committed to transformational change and long-term thinking in the humanitarian world.
The Future of Aid
[edit]IARAN's activities include providing strategic foresight and strategic planning counselling to humanitarian and aid actors and producing its own research and publications. The organisation gained worldwide attention from the humanitarian system in 2017 through its most important publication: The Future of Aid: INGOs in 2030, a report that explored the growing humanitarian needs and the possible evolution of the system until 2030. Key to the findings of this research was the shifting of powers narrative between major aid organizations and local agents. A shift that could render international aid organisations less relevant, while regional and community-based response increase importance. [3]A paradigm change that would imply the need of major aid agents to prepare for a new world reality if they wanted to survive. [4][5]
Community of Practitioners
[edit]Collaborative working has always been central to the ethos of the IARAN and is the basis of its operating model[6]. Since its beginnings the organisation is known for hosting key humanitarian practitioners across the world, working in different subfields related to the humanitarian or aid work.
In 2024, IARAN's fellowship transformed into a Community of Practitioners, an informal platform for sharing practices and experiences related to foresight and innovation in the humanitarian world. This community of practitioners meets every quarter in order to share experiences, best practices or just get ahead on the last developments affecting the humanitarian world.
Notable publications
[edit]Besides its consultancy projects, IARAN has produced and published a large cohort of global and regional outlooks on long-term challenges for improving decision-making through the use of anticipatory action.
- In 2022, IARAN published Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector. A Manual to Foresight and Futures-Focused Thinking, a book for humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with guidelines and facilitation tips for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. [7]Leveraging years of experience in the humanitarian world, this book draws extensive research and facilitation workshop experience in a step-by-step guide to implement an innovative toolkit of tested and refined methods seeking to increase anticipatory capacity and transformation in the humanitarian sector.The book received positive feedback from key humanitarian and futurist leaders who described it as essential playbook for making humanitarian aid future-ready and truly easy to understand, follow, and use. [8]
- Ukraine Crisis: Anticipating the Impacts of the Ukraine War in Europe and Italy: a 2025 outlook. This 2014 report discussed how the conflict in Ukraine would disrupt worldwide supply networks, increased commodity costs, and led to energy instability, impacting Europe, especially in Italy, where the analysis was centered.
- The Future of Financial Assistance (Future of Cash). This publication developed by the CALP Network and IARAN builds on years of research with an ample range of stakeholders from across the humanitarian system, innovation, and foresight analysis[9]. The report maps out four potential scenarios for how financial assistance might look in 2030, the key drivers influencing these changes, and what this will mean for humanitarian action[9].
- COVID 19 scenarios for the humanitarian ecosystem. Published in conjuction with Oxfam, the report addressed the COVID-19 crisis that caused lockdowns to slow transmission. It describe the implications for the formal humanitarian system taking into account the vulnerable populations, particularly in conflict areas, who are most at risk, with women and healthcare workers disproportionately affected, and the economic disruptions sparked, by rising unemployment and global food insecurity.
- The Prospective Study on Sahelian Realities 2030 (PRS 2030). Carried out between 2016 and 2017, this report aimed at two principal topics: Assessing the potential for economic integration and development in eight Sahelo-Saharan countries by 2030: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Chad. It also sought to identify obstacles and opportunities for integration in this region. The project produced four contrasting scenarios to outline possible futures for the region's integration and development[10].
- A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social Exclusion through 2030. The report analyzes the hidden humanitarian crisis facing LGBTI people around the world. Using strategic foresight, the report identifies the main drivers of social exclusion and projects their evolution to 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations' “Leave No One Behind” agenda. The findings aimed to support international planning, policymaking, national strategies and advocacy efforts to ensure that the SDGs are used to advance LGBTI equality. [11][12][13][14][15]
- An Outlook on Hunger: A Scenario Analysis on the Drivers of Hunger through 2030. A comprehensive report providing insight into the key trends and uncertain factors that will shape global hunger in 2030, focusing on Women's hunger, and including economic inequality, population growth, climate change, and natural disasters[16].
Other publications
- Stunting in Pakistan: A Trends Analysis of Underlying Factors by 2030 (2023)
- An Outlook on State Fragility and Humanitarian Work: A Retrospective and Foresight (2023)
- Nigeria: How the Demographic Shift Will Affect Nutrition in the Next Decade - Looking Ahead to 2030.
- East Africa and the Horn of Africa to 2022: Scenarios for the Future.
- Refugees in Uganda: Long-term implications for South Sudanese refugees in West Nile.
- Undernutrition in Tanzania: Trends, Challenges, and Scenarios to 2021 for Urgent Nutrition Action.
- Tribal Migration in India: Foresight analysis of Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan by 2020.
- Malnutrition in the Philippines: A Socio-economic analysis through to 2030. This
- Responding the to Migrant Crisis: Europe at a Juncture.
- Nutritional Policy Impediments in India’s Tribal States of: Madhya Pradesh,
- Food Security Impact of 2014-2015 Ebola Virus Epidemic. Analysis of the impact of human losses, economic decline and the increase of food insecurity because of the 2014
- Ebola epidemic in West Africa significantly affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
- The Ferghana Valley: A 5-Year Humanitarian Trends Assessment.
- Warning Information System for Humanitarian Emergencies (WISHES).
References
[edit]- ^ "Who we are". IARAN. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Voice out loud #37: Anticipatory action: Shaping the future of humanitarian response (June 2024) - World | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2024-06-07. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ McVeigh, Karen (2017-07-20). "'Change or die': aid charities told to stop competing for funds or face extinction". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ Malaka Gharib. "Global Problems Aid Groups Should Prepare For, If They Want To Survive". NPR.
- ^ Poux, Sabine (2017-09-10). "How Exactly "The Future of Aid" Report Advises INGOs". BORGEN. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Community of Practitioners". 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Strategic Planning Manual". IARAN. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector". www.heidiffusion.ch. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ a b "The Future of Financial Assistance: An outlook to 2030".
- ^ "PROSPECTIVE DES REALITES SAHELIENNES. 2030.RAPPORT FINAL" (PDF).
- ^ IRIS. "A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social Exclusion through 2030" (PDF).
- ^ "A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social Exclusion through 2030: Report Summary". 2018.
- ^ "A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social Exclusion Through 2030". IARAN. 2019.
{{cite journal}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ Gardner, Sophie. "A global outlook on LGBT: Social exclusion through 2030 – Upcoming Event in London 17th May". School of International Futures. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "LGBTI social exclusion is a protracted humanitarian crisis". Bond.org.uk. 2018.
- ^ An Outlook on Hunger (PDF). 2017.
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