Network directory

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

DataQ
Service type Community engagement and accountability

Location Sudan
Profile
DataQ is a Sudanese research and advisory firm founded in 2021 with a mission to support local communities through innovative, accessible, and context-driven research, monitoring & evaluation, and consultancy services. Following the outbreak of conflict in April 2023, DataQ strategically shifted its focus to serve as a catalytic partner for locally led humanitarian and development action. In this role, we have supported more than 40 local and international organizations through tailored research, MEAL, and capacity-building engagements. At the heart of our approach lies a belief that inclusive participation in research and evaluation is a driver for broader participation in the humanitarian system. Our Theory of Change centers on increasing local capacities and capabilities, strengthening critical reflection, and equipping communities and local actors with the tools and platforms they need to influence policies and programs that affect them.
Relief Applications
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
Profile
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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Bioforce
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
Profile
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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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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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
Profile
The 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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Center for Humanitarian Leadership (CHL)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
Profile
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.

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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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Ground Truth Solutions
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Profile
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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Internews
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Profile
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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CartONG
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Profile
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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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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Nasa Lifelines
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Profile
RE:ACT
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
Profile
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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Bioport Logistique
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
Profile
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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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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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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DEMAC
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Profile
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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Air Serv
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
Profile
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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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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Togglecorp
Service type Data, information management and analysis

Location Nepal
Profile
Togglecorp is a technology company that builds digital products and data systems for humanitarian, development, and social-impact organisations. Founded in 2016, the team combines software engineering, UX design, and data expertise to help partners manage information more effectively and make evidence-based decisions. Togglecorp develops practical, field-ready tools such as data-collection workflows, analysis platforms, reporting dashboards, and geospatial applications. This involves carefully designing interoperable data pipelines, shaping interfaces that are easy for non-technical users to navigate, and translating large volumes of qualitative and quantitative information into clear, actionable insights. The result is improved information management, better programme visibility, and faster, more informed decision-making in crisis contexts.

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BBC Media Action
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Profile
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