Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP-International) is dedicated to making humanitarian action accountable to its intended beneficiaries: those people whose lives are at risk due to armed conflict or other calamitous events. Find out more about HAP
What would it mean for your agency to improve its humanitarian accountability? What implications might there be for the way you work? How is your agency doing at the moment with respect to accountability? Download and complete our self-assessment questionnaire to see how your agency measures up to the benchmarks of the HAP 2007 Standard in Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management.
30 April : The HAP Standard can change humanitarians from deliverers to engagers
The HAP Standard proposes a change in the very definition of humanitarian professionals: from deliverers to engagers. Yet for the Standard to have ... More
18 April : Membership news: welcome to Church World Service - Pakistan/Afghanistan
Click here to read more about HAP's 22nd member
17 March : Humanitarian agencies conduct accountability self-assessments to strengthen their response to Cyclone Sidr
Three months after Cyclone Sidr hit Southern Bangladesh, the HAP Field Team has been providing direct and indirect support to HAP member agencies and local partners in conducting self-assessments of accountability and quality management in their humanitarian response. Please click here for the full story.
13 March : HAP's guide to humanitarian accountability published by Oxfam.
It's been years in the making! Now, at long last the Guide to the HAP Standard in Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management is available.
9 March : HAP says that accountability to refugees will foster a culture of protection
The 2008 UNHCR/NGO retreat on refugee protection considered the issue of accountability for protection delivery. The HAP Director argued that agencies that improve their accountability to refugees will automatically foster a "culture of protection" that will benefit all parties. Click here to download Nicholas Stockton's presentation
28 February : Complaints Response Mechanism Training in Malawi
In Lilongwe, Malawi, HAP collaborated with DanChurchAid to run a 2 day Complaints Response Mechanism workshop at DanChurchAid's office during the first week of February 2008. DanChurchAid invited local and international partners, such as Evangelical Lutheran Development Services (ELDS), Church Action in Relief and Development (CARD), Action by Churches Together (ACT) Malawi Forum, and Christian Aid to participate not only in the workshop, but also to join together the day after the workshop to help design in detail a pilot complaints response mechanism. ELDS will consult with beneficiary communities about the mechanism before setting it up in collaboration with DanChurchAid in the near future.
The latest resource to be added to this website is HAP Pakistan Training Calendar 2008-09 in the Capacity Building section on 12 May 2008.
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