Profile
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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Anthrologica
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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CyberPeace Institute
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileThe 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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Farm Radio International
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileFarm Radio International is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to improving access to critical information and meaningful communication of rural Africans through the most accessible communication tools: radio and mobile phones. We specialize in interactive radio programming that facilitates two-way communication in local languages, providing a crucial platform for accountability, consultation, and active participation by the communities we serve. Our work includes producing radio resources that empower a network of over 1,300 broadcasters across sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to deliver high-quality programming that addresses critical issues such as food security, gender equality, climate resilience, education, nutrition, and disaster preparedness and response. -
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Ground Truth Solutions
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileGround 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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Help Age
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
ProfileHelp 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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Statistics without Borders
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileStatistics 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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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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. -
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Insecurity Insight
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileInsecurity 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 Leadership Academy
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN)
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileFounded 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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Integrity Action
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileIntegrity Action works with communities to monitor the delivery of vital local development and humanitarian projects/services and solve the problems they find. We aim to provide people with practical ways of tackling service delivery problems and actually getting results, in collaboration with the institutions that serve them. Our approach incorporates community monitoring, social accountability, problem solving, and a technology tool: DevelopmentCheck. Integrity Action is a UK-based NGO which implements programmes through partners in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. -
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Edge Effect
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileEdge 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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Research-Aid Networks
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileResearch-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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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is a university-wide academic and research center in humanitarian crisis and leadership supported by Harvard University's Office of the Provost. HHI’s aims to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by conducting interdisciplinary, practice-based research and education that can be used by scholars, policymakers, NGOs, and others to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. As an Inter-Faculty Initiative (IFI) at Harvard University, HHI collaborates closely with faculty and students throughout all Harvard Schools and Harvard Teaching Hospitals. -
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International Health Partners
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileInternational 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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Humanitarian Outcomes
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileHumanitarian 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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RE:ACT
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileRE: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 Advisory Group
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileHumanitarian 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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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileHOT 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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Medical Aid Films
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
ProfileMedical 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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Ground Water Relief
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileGroundwater 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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CHS Alliance
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileCHS 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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Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF)
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileFormerly 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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Fondation Hirondelle
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileFondation 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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CartONG
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileCreated 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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Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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The CALP Network
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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Global Nutrition Cluster
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileThe Global Nutrition Cluster exists to support practitioners in improving the quality of nutrition in emergency preparedness, response and recovery, by providing coordinated, accessible and timely technical support, through multiple channels, when requested. The cluster includes 16 standby personnel, either with mostly remote or largely deployable functions, available to support any actor (including national organisations and governments) responding to nutrition emergencies. -
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Bioforce
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileBioforce 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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RedR UK
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileRedR 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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IMPACT Initiatives
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileCreated 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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MatchLocal
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileMatchLocal is an NGO dedicated to enhancing locally-led and community-driven responses across humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding settings. They focus on dismantling the barriers between local organizations and sustainable funding by decoding donor systems, advocating for direct funding, and shifting power from intermediaries to local actors. MatchLocal collaborates closely with a growing network of grassroots actors in Africa, the Middle, and beyond. -
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The New Humanitarian
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileThe 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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Data Friendly Space
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileData Friendly Space (DFS) is an International NGO working across six continents to make modern data systems and data science accessible to the humanitarian and development communities. With a mission to improve humanitarian response through better data, DFS has been building digital projects, laying out data strategy and designing data security systems for humanitarian and development organizations. DFS is the technical supervisor and host of DEEP (thedeep.io). -
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Dara International
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileDara 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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Groupe URD
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileFounded 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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Bioport Logistique
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileBioport 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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Sphere
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileThe 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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3iSolution
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Profile3iSolution 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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Humanitarian Library (Shelter Centre)
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileThe 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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ACAPS
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileACAPS 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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Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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Flowminder
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileFlowminder'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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DEMAC
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileDEMAC – 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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Relief Applications
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileRelief 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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Dahlia
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileDahlia 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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Atlas Logistique
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileAtlas 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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