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MatchLocal 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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Users can search for humanitarian-to-humanitarian service providers by category of service and specialization.
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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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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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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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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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Anthrologica
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileAnthrologica 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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Aviation sans Frontières
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Service type Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileAviation Sans Frontières Belgique / Aviation Without Borders Belgium is a unique niche NGO providing aviation expertise to the NGO community and advocating towards donors and humanitarian air operators in order to enhance the NGO capacity to fulfill their mandate towards isolated communities in need. ASF-Belgium is now the “ASF Project Management Hub” or “ASF Brussels Hub” within the pooled structure of Aviation Sans Frontières International. ASF-Belgium is thus keen to participate to the H2H Network on behalf of / as a representative Aviation Sans Frontières International. -
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Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD)
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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Voice
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileVOICE 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileThe 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. -
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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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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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