Network directory

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

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’.

See Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies's website
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.

See BBC Media Action's website
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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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.

See CDAC Network's website
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.

See HERE-Geneva's website
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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The Technical Rapid Response Team (Tech RRT)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Technical Rapid Response Team (Tech RRT) is an emergency response mechanism formed in August 2015, led by International Medical Corps in consortium with Save the Children and Action Against Hunger Canada and USA, which aims to improve the quality and scaling up of nutrition humanitarian responses. A pool of technical experts is available for technical support either remotely or in-country to support practitioners in planning, leading and responding to nutrition emergencies.

See The Technical Rapid Response Team (Tech RRT)'s website
Standby Task Force (SBTF)
Service type Data and information management
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The Standby Task Force (SBTF) is a global multidisciplinary team whose members share their professional expertise pro bono to support information management for disaster response. Upon request from responders, we can monitor online sources and social media to collect, assess, geolocate and verify information coming from affected areas. Our work is best suited for the earliest phases of the humanitarian response, when our members can work remotely 24/7.

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Humanitarian Quality Assurance (HQAI)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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HQAI conducts independent audits of the quality & accountability of organizations working with vulnerable people. In other words: we verify how they work and that the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability is correctly applied from the head office to the field. HQAI is a professional auditor, but also a not-for-profit NGO. We have a common goal with our partners: make aid better.

See Humanitarian Quality Assurance (HQAI)'s website
CartONG
Service type Data and information management
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Created in 2006, CartONG is a French NGO specialized in the full scope of Information Management expertise – including GIS, MDC, data processing and transversal IM approaches – whose mission is to put data at the service of humanitarian, development and social action projects. We are dedicated to improving the quality and accountability of field activities, especially through better needs assessments and monitoring and evaluation. We act as a multidisciplinary resources and expertise center, accompanying our partners’ strategies and operations, as well as the sector as a whole.

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Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
Service type Data and information management
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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.

See Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)'s website
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.

See Groupe URD's website
Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) are a set of international standards and guidelines for the assessment, design, implementation and evaluation of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crises. Key activities are the LEGS Handbook (now in its second edition); the LEGS Training Programme; and the production of other tools and resources to support the implementation of the LEGS Approach. LEGS is a non-profit entity registered in the UK and a member of the Humanitarian Standards Partnership together with Sphere and other humanitarian standards initiatives.

See Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)'s website
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open, global network of members working together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure that all individuals affected by crisis can exercise their right to a quality, safe, relevant, and equitable education. INEE serves its members through several key functions: community building, convening, knowledge management, amplifying and advocating, facilitating and learning, and providing.

See Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies's website
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.

See Statistics without Borders's website
ACAPs
Service type Data and information management
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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.

See ACAPs's website
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.

See Ground Water Relief's website
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.

See Bioport Logistique's website
Humanitarian Library (Shelter Centre)
Service type Data and information management
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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.

See Humanitarian Library (Shelter Centre)'s website
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.

See Humanitarian Logistics Association's website
Impact Initiatives
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. We aim to empower those who deliver vital services and to give voices to those affected by insecurity. Insecurity Insight works with some 30 aid agencies by providing information and a platform for sharing security incidents. Our focus is on mid-risk countries and data and insights that support aid agencies’ global strategic planning and the link between staff security and programme management. We carry out social media monitoring to support community engagement and insights into specific aid risks.

See Impact Initiatives's website
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.

See Sphere's website
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.

See Voice's website
Ground Truth Solutions
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Ground Truth Solutions is an international non-governmental organisation that helps people affected by crisis influence the design and implementation of humanitarian aid. Through our work, we help affected communities communicate their feedback to policymakers and aid providers in the most effective way possible. Our goal is to make their perceptions the touchstone and driver of humanitarian effectiveness. Our current strategy lays out what we want to achieve until 2025.

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Center for Humanitarian Leadership (CHL)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Centre is transforming the humanitarian sector through a hybrid approach to education and practical humanitarian experience, delivered through a leadership lens. We combine robust academic education with applied learning in the field. We teach new perspectives and behaviours, trusted by leading research and evidence on the ground. And, through our valuable global partnerships, we bridge the gap between working humanitarians, academics, students, graduates, and sector stakeholders.

See Center for Humanitarian Leadership (CHL)'s website
Translators without Borders
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Translators without Borders believes that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Originally founded in 1993 in France (as Traducteurs sans Frontières), TWB translates millions of words of lifesaving and life-changing information a year.

See Translators without Borders's website
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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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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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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Internews
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Internews empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account. We seek to realize the potential of a digitally connected world: a world in which evidence-based information advances human progress, enables broad opportunity and accountability, and fuels vibrant civic debate.

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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.

See RE:ACT's website
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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The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP)
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.

See The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP)'s website
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).

See CHS Alliance's website
Human Surge
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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HumanSurge believes there are solutions to the world's challenges when people respond together. HumanSurge provides online solutions to improve the quality and timeliness of humanitarian response through enhanced global surge capacity, and to bring the localization of aid agenda into practice by providing (remote South-South) knowledge exchange between humanitarian responders, to the ultimate benefit of disaster-affected populations. HumanSurge further brings together multidisciplinary expert teams, on needs-basis, for research, policy development, assessments, capacity building and training.

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Service type Data and information management
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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.

See Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)'s website
Map Action
Service type Data and information management
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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.

See Map Action's website
Dara International
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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Dara conducts evaluations, research and policy studies that focus on improving humanitarian aid performance, particularly in conflict situations and natural disasters, advocating for better humanitarian donorship, and strengthening the role and responsibility of host governments and local and regional actors in addressing humanitarian challenges.

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The New Humanitarian
Service type Data and information management
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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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Evidence Aid
Service type Data and information management
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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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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.

See Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF)'s website
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.

See Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)'s website
Mixed Migration Centre (MMC)
Service type Data and information management
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The MMC is a leading source for independent and high quality data, information, research and analysis on mixed migration. Through the provision of credible evidence and expertise, the MMC aims to support agencies, policy makers and practitioners to make well-informed decisions, to positively impact global and regional migration policies, to contribute to protection and assistance responses for people on the move and to stimulate forward thinking in the sector responding to mixed migration.

See Mixed Migration Centre (MMC)'s website
iMMAP
Service type Data and information management
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iMMAP is an international not-for-profit organization that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations, enabling partners to make informed decisions that ultimately provide high-quality targeted assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Our mission is to harness the power of information to facilitate evidence-based decisions to improve people’s lives. By turning data into information, we create knowledge for decision-makers operating in development contexts, situations of violence, post-disaster, and conflict recovery.

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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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Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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The Humanitarian Leadership Academy is a global learning initiative set up to facilitate partnerships and collaborative opportunities to enable people to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries. We have established a global network that assesses local needs and work with partners to develop tailored learning and training packages. Our free online learning platform, Kaya, currently provides training to 200,000 humanitarian volunteers and professionals.

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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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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.

See International Health Partners's website