Network directory

Users can search for humanitarian-to-humanitarian service providers by category of service and specialization.

Humanitarian Advisory Group
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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Humanitarian Advisory Group brings fresh thinking to challenge the status quo of humanitarian aid. As an ethically driven business, we combine humanitarian passion with entrepreneurial agility to think and do things differently. We are courageous, principled and results-focused thinkers and doers, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. What do we do? We research and reflect, connect and collaborate, train and facilitate, guide and advise.

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IMPACT Initiatives
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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Created in 2010, IMPACT is a Geneva-based NGO and the largest independent data provider in contexts of crisis. They aim to support a range of stakeholders in making better, more informed decisions in humanitarian, stabilization, and development settings. They believe that a key pathway to better planning and decision-making is direct engagement with local communities and their leaders. Through their team of assessment, data, geospatial, and thematic specialists, they promote the design of people-centred research and set standards for collecting and analyzing rigorous, high-quality data in complex environments.

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Insecurity Insight
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Insecurity Insight examines threats facing people living and working in dangerous environments. Our innovative data collection and analysis methods generate insights relevant for aid workers, aid agencies and those concerned with the protection of health workers, educators, IDPs and refugees. Our aim is to empower those who deliver vital services and to give voices to those affected by insecurity.

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Humanitarian Library (Shelter Centre)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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The aim of the Association is to relieve the suffering and reduce the vulnerability of those affected by conflicts and natural disasters through supporting impartially all stakeholders involved in transitional settlement and reconstruction. In recognising the human right to adequate housing, Shelter Centre seeks to strengthen the collaboration, consensus and capacity of humanitarian and developmental agencies and donors, international financial institutions, and affected governments and populations. Through these actions, Shelter Centre endeavours to promote peace and security through achieving sustainable livelihoods recovery, risk management and environmental management. The Humanitarian Library, a major initiative of Shelter Centre, is a platform where humanitarian aid knowledge is shared on a real-time basis. As a user-oriented resource, it is designed to support all humanitarian stakeholders world-wide in accessing and sharing knowledge useful to implementing programming, helping to identify good practice and learn lessons across sectors and areas of responsibility.

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Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies is a joint centre of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The Centre’s vision is three-fold to improve the effectiveness of the humanitarian system: 1. flexible teaching approach to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors, 2. evidence generated by our research projects, 3. events and publications to influence policy making and implementation within ‘Geneva International’.

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Air Serv
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Air Serv is a non-profit humanitarian air service provider specializing in logistical support and last-mile delivery for humanitarian operations across Africa. With 40 years of experience in humanitarian and last-mile aviation, Air Serv has also translated expertise into actionable initiatives, including professional development training for aviation professionals to promote safe growth of the aviation industry in eastern Africa. Committed to bridging the gap to both resources and opportunities, Air Serv creates access where there would otherwise be none.

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The CALP Network
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) is a global network of more than 90 humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research in cash and voucher assistance (CVA). With the number, scale and complexity of humanitarian crises increasing, CaLP acts as a catalyst for positive transformation within the sector. We provide a forum for learning, knowledge sharing, networking, policy and coordination.

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Help Age
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
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Help Age’s vision is a world in which all older people can lead dignified, healthy and secure lives. Help Age's mission is to promote the wellbeing and inclusion of older women and men, and reduce poverty and discrimination in later life. They work both directly and in partnership with national and local actors to support older people and people with disabilities across the breadth development, humanitarian, security nexus.

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Voice
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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VOICE Amplified is building a humanitarian response to gender-based violence in crisis and conflict settings, led by the women and girls it intends to serve. We elevate women and girl-led organizations and activists as respected leaders in designing and implementing solutions to eradicate violence–both in their communities and within the halls of power–and draw from their expertise and experience. VOICE takes a distinctly feminist approach, amplifying female leadership in humanitarian response work to make the world a safer, and more equal place.

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Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin. Our mission is to improve global governance through research, policy advice, and debate. GPPi’s humanitarian action team has supported global and organizational change processes through research, policy development, real-time reviews, and evaluations for over 10 years.

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. We work together to provide map data that revolutionizes disaster management, reduces risks, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Flowminder
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Flowminder's focus is on improving the wellbeing of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries, using mobile operator, geospatial and survey data. Flowminder is a non-profit organization which partners with decision makers, mobile network operators and key stakeholders, in national and international data systems, to produce high-quality data, strengthen capacity, develop new methods and tools, and leverage non-traditional and novel data sources to deliver projects that improve the lives of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.

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Field Ready
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Field Ready brings manufacturing to challenging places worldwide. Our vision is to transform how aid is provided by localizing manufacturing and engaging people in new ways. Working in partnership with others, we solve problems locally in areas such as search and rescue, health, water and sanitation (WASH), livelihoods and protection.

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RE:ACT
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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RE:ACT is a UK-based disaster response charity that combines a military approach with humanitarian action. We recruit and train agile and resilient disaster response volunteers capable of rapidly deploying to complex disasters in the UK and abroad, delivering direct aid and life support to the hardest to reach and most vulnerable people affected by disaster.

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Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD) is a strategic business unit of Islamic Relief (IR), the world’s largest western Muslim NGO. IR has a presence in over 40 countries worldwide, providing HAD with unique access to, and understanding of many of these contexts. HAD’s mission is to strengthen the aid sector through capacity building, leadership development and knowledge generation. HAD achieves this through a combination of support mechanisms that include learning & development and talent development.

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ACAPS
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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ACAPS is an independent information provider, free from the bias or vested interests of a specific enterprise, sector, or region. As independent specialists in humanitarian needs analysis and assessment, we are not affiliated with the UN or any other organization. This helps guarantee that the ACAPS analysis is objective and evidence-based. ACAPS was established in 2009 as a non-profit, non-governmental project with the aim of providing independent, ground-breaking humanitarian analysis to help humanitarian workers, influencers, fundraisers, and donors make better decisions.

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The New Humanitarian
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom which puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world. We report from the heart of conflicts and disasters to inform prevention and response. As the trusted news source on humanitarian crises, we deliver the authentic, inside story. Our reporting gives insight to policymakers, practitioners and others who want to make the world more humane.

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Atlas Logistique
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Atlas Logistique is an operational unit of Humanity & Inclusion (HI) that specializes in logistics services and supply chain management for humanitarian organizations. Our services include common transportation and storage, civil engineering, and advisory support services. As a part of the HI family, we believe in the inclusive and equitable distribution of humanitarian aid for all vulnerable populations, and work towards this every day, through innovative and strategic logistics solutions that help actors go further, faster.

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Sphere
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Sphere movement was started in 1997 by a group of humanitarian professionals aiming to improve the quality of humanitarian work during disaster response. Today, Sphere is a worldwide community which sets standards for humanitarian action and promotes quality and accountability. Sphere’s flagship publication, the Sphere Handbook, is one of the most widely known and internationally recognised sets of common principles and universal minimum standards in humanitarian response.

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Dahlia
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Dahlia has been created by a group of independent evaluation and communication professionals with the mission to improve the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian response and development efforts through enhanced two-way communication, stronger linkages and better evaluation. We work on a more strategic use of two-way communications that leads to more effective humanitarian response and development. A communication that is field oriented, context specific and mainstreamed throughout early humanitarian and development processes to make actions more relevant and appropriate. We link our activities to greater transparency and participation of affected population by using tools like video, radio, training etc.

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Relief Applications
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
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Relief Applications is a multicultural humanitarian company with top-level professionals who work to make technology a tool that improves the quality of life of people in need.

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Bioport Logistique
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Bioport is a French non-profit organization created in 1994 which provides below logistic services to humanitarian actors. Bioport aims to improve the aid given by humanitarian actors by providing supply chain services and advice to minimize costs and maximize service to the beneficiaries through multimodal transport management, transport coordination and follow-up with suppliers, head quarters, local teams warehousing services, stock management, quality control, kitting, picking, packaging.

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International Health Partners
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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International Health Partners (IHP) is a global health charity coordinating the safe and responsible donation of medicines and health supplies to people around the world who lack access. We work with a range of global partners to respond rapidly to humanitarian disasters, support long-term healthcare programmes, and equip doctors and other healthcare professionals with supplies for short-term medical trips. With a strong network of healthcare industry donors, we are the largest coordinator of donated medical products in Europe.

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RedR UK
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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RedR UK has 40 years of experience building the skills and knowledge of humanitarian workers and affected communities to respond to crises such as disease outbreaks, conflicts and natural disasters. Between 2010 and 2019, we improved the capacity of 57,726 humanitarian workers in 35 countries to respond effectively to humanitarian crises.

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Statistics without Borders
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Statistics Without Borders (SWB) is a volunteer Outreach Group of the American Statistical Association that provides pro bono services in statistics and data science. We provide these services through client projects for public benefit that support goals that are non-religious, non-political, and non-personal. SWB operates without money and does not accept payments of any kind. See Statistics Without Borders Facebook page for more information.

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Humanitarian Logistics Association
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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HLA is a membership organisation, empowering logisticians to deliver humanitarian aid and development assistance more effectively. It acts as an informed enabler, leveraging innovation, knowledge, standards and technology to support aid, private, academic and public sectors to increase their effectiveness. HLA facilitates better connections between supply with demand, enabling cross sector learning, innovations and partnerships, supporting market transparency, reducing waste and harnessing opportunity to help the total become greater than the sum.

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Anthrologica
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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Anthrologica is a research-based organisation specialising in applied anthropology in global health. We conduct formative and operational research across health sectors, focusing on the interface between the provision and uptake of health services. Our specific expertise lies in incorporating the needs and perceptions of intended beneficiaries into health policy and programming to ensure that it is contextually relevant and that opportunities for improving health are maximised through the active participation of recipients.

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HERE-Geneva
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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HERE’s mission is to contribute to improving collective performance and the effectiveness of humanitarian action. We produce independent research, analysis, and advice in the form of policy reviews, evaluations, and studies – both that which is conducted as part of our own research agenda, and that which is commissioned by others. To ensure our work remains relevant to those operating in humanitarian environments, we continuously engage with governments, the UN and other international agencies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, and other humanitarian actors.

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BBC Media Action
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity. Our work with media and communication reaches millions of people facing insecurity, inequality, and poverty with information they can trust. We support independent media essential to democracy and development, and we reach more than 100 million people a year with information, stories, and ideas that help to save lives, improve health, protect livelihoods, challenge inequality and build more peaceful and democratic societies. We are not funded from the BBC TV Licence Fee and rely on our donors' generous support.

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Research-Aid Networks
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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Research-Aid Networks seeks to create interdisciplinary networks of researchers, aid organisations and local communities, encouraging collaborative and evidence-based approaches for assessing need, delivering aid, evaluating effectiveness and achieving long-term relief. By combining research, humanitarian aid and local community support, Research-Aid Networks will create a collaborative system that is able to deliver more effective humanitarian aid and facilitate long-term sustainable community development, worldwide.

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Medical Aid Films
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
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Medical Aid Films bring together health experts with creative content makers to create engaging, accessible digital content, empowering health workers and communities with vital knowledge and skills.

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Map Action
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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In humanitarian emergencies, data and maps are crucial to make rapid sense of the chaos and plan the best response. UK charity MapAction works across the globe to ensure humanitarian teams have access to the geospatial information and skills they need whenever they’re needed to get the right aid to the right places as quickly as possible. Most of its work is done by highly trained, expert volunteers.

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CyberPeace Institute
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva-based organization protecting the most vulnerable in cyberspace. Independent and neutral, the Institute investigates and analyzes the human impact of systemic cyber threats, delivers free cybersecurity assistance, tracks the enforcement of international laws and norms and forecasts threats to cyberpeace. Their commitment to assisting and protecting vulnerable communities determines the focus of the activities of the Institute, such as the Humanitarian Cybersecurity Center and their flagship programme, the CyberPeace Builders, designed to fortify the digital resilience of non-profits worldwide through the support of corporate cybersecurity volunteers.

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Bioforce
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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Bioforce is a humanitarian organisation that works in the preparation and response to crises relating to conflict, natural catastrophe, and epidemic. We provide solutions to enable vulnerable populations to have access to efficient and high-quality aid through training, accompanying and structuring of humanitarian actors.

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Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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The Joint IDP Profiling Service is an inter-agency service that works with governments and their humanitarian and development partners to improve evidence in internal displacement situations through support and advice to collaborative profiling processes.

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CHS Alliance
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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CHS Alliance is a global alliance of humanitarian and development organisations committed to making aid work better for people. We believe organisations deliver higher quality, more effective aid when they are accountable to the people they serve. Together, we are a movement to strengthen accountability and to put people affected by crisis at the heart of what we do by implementing the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).

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ActivityInfo
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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ActivityInfo is an information management platform used for needs assessment, cash voucher assistance, beneficiary registration, monitoring & evaluation, humanitarian coordination, and case management, supporting the humanitarian sector since 2008. Their goal is to help humanitarian organizations work more cost-effectively, learn from data, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for the people they serve. The ActivityInfo team can help deliver rapid solutions for pressing humanitarian needs in the most challenging environments.

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3iSolution
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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3iSolution specializes in providing tailored technology-driven solutions for organizations dedicated to improving lives in crisis and development contexts. Their focus is on delivering rapid and cost-effective responses by leveraging innovation to address unique challenges. 3iSolution collaborates closely with partners to understand their specific needs and develop practical solutions that make a real impact. From deploying emergency response systems to long-term development projects, they're committed to driving positive change where it's needed most.

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Evidence Aid
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Evidence Aid aims to save lives and livelihoods in disasters by providing decision-makers with the best available evidence and by championing its use. Working prior to, during and after disasters, Evidence Aid ensures that humanitarian actors have access to the very latest evidence in the right format and the right language.

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Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Founded in 2016, the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) is a joint initiative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the United Nations World Food Programme. Aiming to facilitate the capture, analysis, and sharing of experiences and practices around humanitarian negotiation and to provide a space for dialogue across organizations, CCHN was born out of the realization that accessing and assisting people in crises largely relies on the negotiation capacity of humanitarian workers.

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Fondation Hirondelle
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Fondation Hirondelle is a Swiss non-profit organization which provides information to populations faced with crisis, empowering them in their daily lives and as citizens. Founded in 1995 and based in Lausanne, Fondation Hirondelle is currently implementing and supporting local media and teams of journalists in 8 countries on 3 continents.

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Ground Water Relief
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Groundwater Relief provides remote and field based technical support to humanitarian and development organisations engaged in water supply via a global membership of over 300 groundwater professionals. Our members are specialists in a wide range of fields including, hydrogeology, drilling, geochemistry, geophysics, groundwater modelling and regulation. Groundwater Relief provides technical expertise, specialist equipment and training to support construction, rehabilitation and management of groundwater supplies.

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Edge Effect
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Quality and sector professionalization
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Edge Effect is a humanitarian and development organisation specialising in diverse SOGIESC (aka LGBTIQ+) inclusion. We undertake participatory research in various thematic areas, develop policy and good practice guidance, share resources and support collaborative learning (via www.42d.org), provide training and organisational audit services, provide program design and evaluation consulting services, support capacity strengthening of diverse SOGIESC CSOs to engage equitably with sector actors, and implement projects in selected countries in partnership with diverse SOGIESC CSOs.

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Groupe URD
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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Founded in 1993, Groupe URD is an independent think tank that specialises in analysing practices and developing policies for the humanitarian sector. Our multi-disciplinary expertise, based on continual field visits to crisis and post-crisis contexts, provides us with insight into the functioning of the sector as a whole. We believe in sharing knowledge and collective learning, and we help aid actors to improve the quality of their programmes.

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Humanitarian Outcomes
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
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Humanitarian Outcomes is a team of specialist consultants providing research and policy advice for humanitarian aid agencies and donor governments. The partners of Humanitarian Outcomes are former aid practitioners and policy makers with established track records of applied research in the humanitarian sector. With the aim to provide practical solutions built on evidence-based analysis, their work covers the institutional, financial, and operational mechanics of the international humanitarian system, and considers the broader political environment in which aid policy takes shape.

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DEMAC
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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DEMAC – the Diaspora Emergency Action & Coordination initiative – is a global initiative aiming at enhancing inclusive coordination among diaspora organizations providing humanitarian assistance, and across diaspora organizations and institutional humanitarian actors. DEMAC seeks to facilitate higher levels of engagement and visibility for diaspora organizations in the humanitarian system, thus contributing to transforming the humanitarian ecosystem by laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of diasporas as humanitarian actors.

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CDAC Network
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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CDAC Network is the global alliance of many of the world’s biggest humanitarian and media development organisations – including UN agencies, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, media and specialist communications organisations – committed to putting the power in humanitarian action back in the hands of communities. We believe that when communities have the information and the resources to make their own decisions, they have the capacity to find solutions to even the most challenging problems. We work to enable them to do this.

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Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF)
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Formerly known as EISF, the Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF) is a member-led NGO forum that drives change through a global network of over 100 member organisations. Through its renowned research programme and popular events, GISF influences good security risk management practice that works for the whole humanitarian sector, improving the security of aid workers and operations for sustainable access.

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