HAP Standard Baseline Analysis
Purpose: Designed as a service to assist agencies to prepare for certification. It seeks to establish where an agency currently stands in relation to the HAP Standard and its level of compliance with each of the requirements. It helps the agency note and affirm existing good practice, identify gaps and decide areas for improvement. While it draws heavily on information provided by staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders, the involvement of an external baseline facilitator provides objectivity and impartiality in the findings.
Components of the baseline: The baseline analysis includes:
- The head office analysis, which aims to gather information on the agency as a whole - its governance and management systems, agency-wide policies, systems, decision-making processes and experience of practice in different programmes and countries.
- The programme site analysis, which aims to verify how the agency's policies, systems and procedures actually work on the ground: what is known and adhered to; how projects are managed and delivered and how the agency's work is experienced by people receiving humanitarian assistance, affected communities and other stakeholders.
At head office and at the programme site, the HAP facilitator reviews documents, interviews people and observes practice. Detailed guidance is provided to agencies undertaking a baseline. The process normally commences with the head office baseline, with the programme site baseline undertaken as soon as it is practicable afterwards.
Guidelines: Agencies preparing for a Baseline Analysis against the HAP 2007 Standard ought to download the Guide to Baseline Analysis.
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Price Guide: Complete HAP Standard Baseline Analysis
(Head Office and one Programme site)
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Swiss francs (CHF)
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Members
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Non-members
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Standard rate
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13,000 CHF
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26,000 CHF
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Small agency rate
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6,500 CHF
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13,000 CHF
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Price Guide: Head Office only baseline analysis
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Swiss francs (CHF)
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Members
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Non-members
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Standard rate
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7,500 CHF
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15,000 CHF
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Small agency rate
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3,750 CHF
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7,500 CHF
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Price Guide: Programme site only baseline analysis
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Swiss francs (CHF)
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Members
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Non-members
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Standard rate
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7,500 CHF
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15,000 CHF
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Small agency rate
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3,750 CHF
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7,500 CHF
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For more details on this service and other services provided by HAP, please see the HAP Services and Price Guide Booklet.
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Staff reviewing practice as part of a guided self-assessment against the HAP Standard, Sri Lanka Sept 2009
Aim not for a greater budget, more assets, higher visibility, and increased prestige. Instead, aim for higher levels of participation, increased cooperative effort, better communication, the enhanced quality of service, greater impact, lasting effect, and higher accountability. The rest will follow.
Steven Muncy, Executive Director, Community and Family Services International, November 2009.
