GCRF: RECAP - Research capacity building and knowledge generation to support preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and epidemics

RECAP将重点关注与武装冲突、自然灾害、被迫移徙和流行病有关的急性和长期人道主义危机。人道主义危机及其对卫生和相关部门的影响可能对国际发展和实现可持续发展目标构成重大障碍。人道主义行为体的有效决策对人道主义反应至关重要。准确和及时的信息和证据对于实现有效决策至关重要。例如，通过制定基于证据的标准和针对这些标准的绩效衡量，评估需求和满足这些需求的有效性，确保物有所值，并支持对人道主义方案接受者和这些方案的问责制。然而，目前的干预措施受到有限的数据、能力、指导和道德准备的阻碍，从而影响问责制。保护工作是支持问责制的核心，通过努力确保当局和其他人道主义行为体尊重其义务和个人及弱势群体的权利。RECAP的愿景是加强研究能力和能力，以产生关于如何改进决策和问责制的知识，以帮助支持人道主义危机的准备和应对。该计划将通过重叠的研究和能力建设活动，重点关注卫生和保护部门。对于研究，有6个相互关联的跨学科研究目标/工作包。这些研究目标还将作为通过应用研究方法培训进行能力建设的平台。能力建设活动将通过以下四个能力建设目标来实现：培训与RECAP研究相关的具体研究方法；建设机构能力，创造可持续和支持性的研究环境；支持个人研究能力和职业发展；建设英国在人道主义危机中的健康和保护多学科研究方面的能力。这将是一个为期四年的项目。RECAP提高研究能力和能力的战略是建立一个独特的网络，由致力于人道主义危机背景下的健康和保护的主要学术组织和非政府组织（ngo）组成。RECAP将由伦敦卫生和热带医学学院（LSHTM）领导，包括塞拉利昂大学（USL）、贝鲁特美国大学（AUB）、伦敦大学高级研究学院（SAS）、牛津大学和伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）的难民法倡议。非政府组织是人道主义准备和反应的第一线行动者，因此对《行动计划》至关重要。RECAP的非政府组织合作伙伴是无国界医生组织（MSF）、国际救援委员会（IRC）、英国救助儿童会（Save The Children UK）和BRAC。他们将通过后勤、技术和其他形式的支持在亚太区域规划国家提供协助。RECAP将使用轮辐模型；以英国、塞拉利昂和黎巴嫩为中心开展能力建设和研究；并谈到了在受人道主义危机影响的官方发展援助国家（最有可能是缅甸、南苏丹、乌干达、刚果民主共和国，受制于安全和后勤问题）的非政府组织合作项目中进一步的研究地点。RECAP的预期成果将是：加强大学和非政府组织合作伙伴的研究能力；通过英国、塞拉利昂和黎巴嫩的卓越研究和培训区域中心发展新的研究网络；研究和能力建设产出（包括开放获取软件平台以及研究和培训准则）；并通过对人道主义准则、规划和政策的贡献产生影响。这将加强人道主义危机中的决策和问责制，以改善健康、保护和更广泛的发展成果。

RECAP will focus on acute and protracted humanitarian crises related to armed conflict, natural disasters, forced migration, and epidemics. Humanitarian crises and their impact on health and related sectors can pose major obstacles to international development and the achieving the SDGs. Effective decision-making by humanitarian actors is essential in humanitarian response. Accurate and timely information and evidence is essential in achieving effective decision-making. For example, through setting evidence-based standards and performance measurement against those standards, assessing needs and effectiveness in meeting those needs, ensuring value for money, and supporting accountability to recipients of humanitarian programmes and those programmes. Yet current interventions are impeded by limited data, capacity, guidance, and ethical preparedness with consequent implications for accountability. Work on protection is central to supporting accountability through seeking to ensure authorities and other humanitarian actors respect their obligations and the rights of individuals and vulnerable populations.RECAP's vision is to strengthen research capacity and capability to generate knowledge on how to improve decision-making and accountability to help support preparedness and response to humanitarian crises. RECAP will focus on the sectors of health and protection through overlapping research and capacity building activities. For the research, there are 6 interconnected, interdisciplinary research Objectives/work-packages. These research objectives will also act as platforms for capacity building through applied research methods training. The capacity building activities will be realised through 4 capacity building Objectives on: training on specific research methods linked to the RECAP research; building institutional capacity for a sustainable and supportive research environment; supporting individual researcher capability and career progression; and building UK capability in multi-disciplinary research on health and protection in humanitarian crises. It will be a four year programme.RECAP's strategy to grow research capacity and capability is to establish a unique network of leading academic and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on health and protection in the context of humanitarian crises. RECAP will be led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and includes the University of Sierra Leone (USL), the American University of Beirut (AUB), the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study (SAS) in London University, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). NGOs are the front line actors in humanitarian preparedness and response and so are vital to RECAP. The RECAP NGO partners are Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children UK, and BRAC. They will assist through logistics, technical and other forms of support in the RECAP countries.RECAP will use a hub-and-spoke model; with hubs of the UK, Sierra Leone, and Lebanon for capacity building and research; and spokes of further research sites in NGO partner programmes in ODA countries affected by humanitarian crises (most likely to be Myanmar, South Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, subject to security and logistical issues).The expected outcomes of RECAP will be: strengthened research capacity and capability among university and NGO partners; the development of a new research network through regional hubs of research and training excellence in the UK, Sierra Leone and Lebanon; research and capacity-building outputs (including open access software platforms and research and training guidelines); and impact through contributions to humanitarian guidelines, programmes and policies. These will strengthen decision-making and accountability in humanitarian crises to improve health, protection and broader development outcomes.