Network directory

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

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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Bioforce
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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)
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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.

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

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

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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
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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.

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Center for Humanitarian Leadership (CHL)
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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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