Board
Role
The Board is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of HAP including budgeting, membership applications and management of the Executive. The Board normally meets twice a year - in April to review the HAP Annual Report and Audit, and in October to review the budget for the following financial year. Special meetings are convened at the request of members of the Board or the Secretariat as required.
Composition
The Board comprises a maximum of twelve members. Two thirds represent agencies that are Full Members of HAP and the remaining one third are independent. HAP’s constitution further requires that at least two Board members be drawn from beneficiary communities. The Executive Director of HAP is an ex officio member of the Board.
Current members
As at April 2008, HAP’s Board Members were:
- Mary B. Anderson, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (Independent)
- Matthew Carter, Humanitarian Director, CAFOD
- Reza Chowdhury, Director, COAST Trust
- Antonio Donini, Tufts University - Independent (Vice-chair)
- Matthew Frost, Chief Executive Officer, Tearfund
- Lisa Henry, Relief Director, DanChurchAid
- Andreas Kamm, Secretary-General, Danish Refugee Council (Chair)
- Jemilah Mahmood, President, MERCY Malaysia
- Jonathan Mitchell, Emergency Director, CARE International (Treasurer)
- Mamadou Ndiaye, Director, OFADEC
"Accountability is not rocket science. Have community expectations been understood, were they built into the design and implementation process, did we deliver on them, were they provided opportunity for input into the projects and did we avoid doing harm in the process? Simple, but hard to get the ops teams to consistently do this without the frameworks and the people. The inclusion of a Humanitarian Accountability Team and the HAP framework in our program made this more than possible. I would never go into another emergency response without an Humanitarian Accountability Team. The value added to this program was tremendous."
Andrew Lanyon, Operations Director (Program Implementation) Lanka Tsunami Response Team, World Vision International
