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Research and Communications

HAP's research and communications functions are fused. Together they reinforce and improve the practice of accountability through strategic partnerships with academic institutions and organizations concerned with accountability.

Objectives

During 2008 and 2009, HAP research and communications will:

  • promote the HAP research agenda
  • commission research
  • review the HAP 2007 Standard
  • prepare communication materials for promoting accountability and quality management

Activities

Its major activities will include:

  • developing strategic partnerships with academic institutions
  • co-convening a conference on accountability
  • presenting at strategic research fora and publishing on humanitarian accountability
  • commissioning research on the program impact of good complaints handling, beneficiary participation in complaints handling and the perceptions of accountability stakeholders
  • developing audio-visual materials to promote and explain humanitarian accountability and the HAP processes

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

John Stuart Mill - English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

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