This guide has been developed as a “hands-on” resource to help you to use the recently developed Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) competencies framework in all aspects of working with your staff – we’ve called this the Employee Life Cycle. We have designed the guide so that you can...
The ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action has been monitoring the quality of evaluations of humanitarian action for the past five years. The positive news is that evaluations have become more deeply ingrained in the humanitarian sector. The not-so-good news is that the quality of the evaluations...
While each NGO fora is unique in its membership, structure, scope and strategic direction, this brief guide to delivering joint advocacy has been developed to be relevant to humanitarian NGO fora of any size or scale. The components within the guide can be used together, or individually, and may be...
Evaluation is a key tool in efforts to improve accountability and performance in the operation of the international humanitarian aid system. However, humanitarian aid has been subjected to less rigorous monitoring and evaluation procedures than those applied to development aid. As the share of...
As nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) have burgeoned throughout the developing world, they have become an undeniably powerful “third sector.” These organisations deliver services, build infrastructure, and advocate for policy change. NGOs have begun to establish and participate in networks within...
Humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly collaborating through inter-organi- zational structures such as coalitions, alliances, partnerships, and coordination bodies. NGO’s information technology coordination bodies are groups of NGOs aimed at improving the efficiency of...
Drawing on our experiences in developing a new governance model for the Canadian Health Network, in this paper we argue that there is currently no agreement about a prescriptive or ideal model of non-profit governance. Rather we suggest that within the current diversity of thought about governance...
Evaluation is a key tool in efforts to improve accountability and performance in the operation of the international humanitarian assistance system. Historically, humanitarian assistance has been subjected to less rigorous and extensive monitoring and evaluation procedures than development aid. As...
This paper starts out with a cursory overview of coordination experiences by major players in the humanitarian world (Section 2). The aim is only to indicate the wealth of experience there, not to offer a critical analysis of it all. The review indicates that coordination in and by host governments...
The purpose of the Guiding Principles is to address the specific needs of internally displaced persons worldwide by identifying rights and guarantees relevant to their protection. The Principles reflect and are consistent with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. They...
Allegations of misconduct, especially sexual misconduct, committed by United Nations peacekeepers have arisen with persistent regularity in the past and may continue to arise in future missions. These incidents are particularly unacceptable as the United Nations, and personnel associated with it,...
This guidance document provides a very detailed list of what to do when facilitating cluster coordination meetings. Many of the elements will not be relevant in all contexts nor to all NGO coordination bodies. Many of the actions required to facilitate a cluster coordination meeting, however, are...
The Oslo Guidelines address the need for principles and standards and to provide improved coordination in the use of military and civil defence assets. They establish the basic framework for formalizing and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the use of military teams, assets and expertise...
This issue of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited by the Humanitarian Practice Network and the Security Management Initiative (SMI) in Geneva, focus- es entirely on staff safety and security. Responses to safety and security challenges vary widely across the aid sector. Different contexts, organisa-...
This paper examines where the humanitarian community is now in terms of quality and accountability, how we got here, and what some of the challenges are for the future.
Since independence, Haiti has experienced decades of political turbulence and violence, during which the government was unable to - and some argue not supported to - provide for the Haitian people. The Haitian people have learned to look to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), rather than the...
ICVA has been supporting and facilitating NGO coordination since the 1990s. A key aim of ICVA is to help improve humanitarian preparedness and response, and increase the effectiveness of NGO coordination mechanisms in humanitarian contexts. In 2014 ICVA convened three regional meetings of NGO...
This guidance documents gives an overview of the existing legal frameworks - international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international refugee law, international criminal law and international disaster response laws, rules and principles - and the challenges they face in...
This is an independent evaluation commissioned to consider the results and progress of the three- year pilot phase of the Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS), and to make recommendations regarding how JIPS should develop. The evaluation is based on an extensive document review, interviews with a...
This note clarifies leadership and coordination arrangements in the situation where a complex humanitarian emergency or natural disaster is taking place, a Humanitarian Coordinator has been appointed, and a UNHCR-led refugee operation is also underway. The detailed accountabilities, roles and...
This brief outlines the types of support InterAction and ICVA provide, respectively and jointly, through our NGO fora programs. It also lists the global and regional platforms we participate in and shares links to practical tools and guides. We anticipate that these will be useful for fora...
ICVA has developed this note to support dialogue on strengthening principled and effective humanitarian action by NGOs during the COVID-19 response, with a focus on reinforcing local and national action wherever possible.
The advice provided within this document stems from interviews with 18 NGO forum secretariats, multiple donor agency representatives, and host agency staff at both field and HQ levels.
To begin this one-pager, we must first point out that while there are inherent risks in hosting a Forum, we believe that they are far outweighed by the benefits they provide to the hosting agency.
South Sudan NGO Forum Secretariat Code of Ethical Conduct.
UNITED NATIONS COORDINATED APPEAL APRIL – DECEMBER 2020 Progress Report on the Global Humanitarian Response Plan to COVID-19 FIRST EDITION - 26 JUNE 2020
The COVID-19 Global HRP is a joint effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), including UN, other international organisations and NGOs with a humanitarian mandate, to analyse and respond to the direct public health and indirect immediate humanitarian consequences of the...
This note builds on work done by ALNAP in 2016 on improving humanitarian coordination and the Global Protection Cluster and Global Education Cluster’s work on localisation. The note further draws on the regional workshops carried out by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream in 2019, which...
This guidance note draws on best practices identified in consultations in three regional conferences on localisation conducted by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream in 2019, as well as from a research project commissioned by the IFRC with support from ECHO, consisting of a literature review...
This guidance note was prepared by UN Women and the Grand Bargain Friends of Gender Group and developed through extensive research and three regional consultations with local women’s rights and women-led organisations (WROs and WLOs) as well as feedback from the Grand Bargain Localisation...
