Turning Humanitarian Evidence into Timely, Actionable Knowledge
Evidence Mapping and Living Synthesis Infrastructure
Humanitarian decision-making requires evidence that is accurate, relevant, and accessible. Through its Evidence Mapping and Living Synthesis Infrastructure, ICHA helps identify, organize, and continuously update humanitarian knowledge, ensuring evidence remains current and actionable. By integrating research, data, policy analysis, field learning, and practitioner insights, ICHA supports informed decision-making across preparedness, response, recovery, resilience-building, and policy development.
Evidence Mapping
Systematically identifies and organizes humanitarian evidence across key thematic areas, helping decision-makers understand what evidence exists, where it is located, and how it can be applied.
Living Evidence Synthesis
Continuously updates and synthesizes research, field learning, policy developments, and operational insights to ensure knowledge remains current and relevant.
Knowledge Gap Identification
Highlights areas where evidence is limited, outdated, or insufficient, helping guide future research, innovation, partnerships, and policy priorities.
Evidence-to-Policy Translation
Transforms complex evidence into accessible knowledge products that support advocacy, strategic planning, programme design, and institutional decision-making.
Our Approach
ICHA employs a multidisciplinary approach that integrates research and evidence generation, data analysis, community knowledge, policy review, and operational learning. By combining these perspectives, evidence is not only gathered but also critically interpreted, contextualized, and translated into practical insights that support informed decision-making, effective programming, and impactful humanitarian action.
Building a Living Knowledge System for Humanitarian Action
At its core, this work reflects ICHA’s commitment to ensuring that evidence moves beyond reports and repositories to actively inform humanitarian decisions, policies, and practice. Through investment in evidence mapping and living synthesis, ICHA is helping build a dynamic humanitarian knowledge ecosystem that is responsive to emerging challenges, inclusive of diverse perspectives, and grounded in real-world needs. By transforming evidence into actionable insight, the infrastructure strengthens evidence-informed humanitarian action and supports more effective, adaptive, and impactful responses for communities facing crisis.