The latest Humanitarian Leader paper, written by Kathryn Harries, describes the rationale and journey to develop the Field Team Impact Kit (FieldTiK), a guide providing practical instructions and tools to improve field team performance.
The guide addresses recognised challenges—that there is inadequate support for leadership, management and learning within technical field teams in humanitarian organisations, and that this hinders timely, effective humanitarian action.
Harries also provides an overview of feedback received on the guide, sourced from a wide range of humanitarian professionals from across the world, and notes that these sector experts consulted overwhelmingly agree that use of such a guide could fill a significant gap, particularly for local non-governmental organisations, enabling improved outcomes—including in accountability, locally led response, quality, adaptability, safeguarding and team well-being.
