Since the publication of the ALNAP study on innovation in international humanitarian action in 2009, innovation has emerged as a central vehicle for change in the humanitarian sector. As the field of humanitarian innovation expands and matures, there is an increasingly vocal expectation that 鈥渘ow is the time to deliver.鈥� Navigating optimistic claims about the role and relevance of humanitarian innovation as a vehicle of change鈥攁nd the reverse inclination to dismiss humanitarian innovation as a neoliberal hype鈥攖his review article sets out to get a better sense of the expectations concerning humanitarian innovation as a theory of change: exactly what do actors in the humanitarian sector expect innovation to deliver, how, and why does it matter?
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2017) Now is the time to deliver: looking for humanitarian innovation鈥檚 theory of change, Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2 (8): 1鈥�11.
