Network directory

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

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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Humanitarian Library (Shelter Centre)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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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
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.

See Dara International'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.

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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.

See RedR UK's website
iMMAP Inc.
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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iMMAP Inc. is an international non-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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IMPACT Initiatives
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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Created 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.

See IMPACT Initiatives'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
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.

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3iSolution
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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3iSolution 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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Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Help Age
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
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Help 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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Aviation sans Frontières
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Aviation 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.

See Aviation sans Frontières's website
Map Action
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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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
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
Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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.

See Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD)'s website
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
Integrity Action
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Integrity 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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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.

See Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN)'s website
CLEAR Global
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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CLEAR Global is a nonprofit helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak. CLEAR stands for community, language, engagement, accountability, and reach, the cornerstones of their work around the world. Their leadership has expertise in a variety of industries — international assistance, big tech, nonprofit leadership and cutting-edge language technology. They bring decades of experience and diverse perspectives to CLEAR Global, to better understand and address communication needs globally.

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The New Humanitarian
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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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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Air Serv
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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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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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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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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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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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ActivityInfo
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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ActivityInfo is an information management platform used for needs assessment, cash voucher assistance, beneficiary registration, monitoring & evaluation, humanitarian coordination, and case management, supporting the humanitarian sector since 2008. Their goal is to help humanitarian organizations work more cost-effectively, learn from data, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for the people they serve. The ActivityInfo team can help deliver rapid solutions for pressing humanitarian needs in the most challenging environments.

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Farm Radio International
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Farm 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.

See Farm Radio International's website
ACAPS
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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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.

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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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CartONG
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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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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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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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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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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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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Global Nutrition Cluster
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
Security, logistics and programme support
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The 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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Edge Effect
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Quality and sector professionalization
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Edge 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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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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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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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’.

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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.

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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.

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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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Mixed Migration Centre (MMC)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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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.

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Data Friendly Space
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Data 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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Medical Aid Films
Service type Community engagement and accountability
Data, information management and analysis
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Medical 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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Relief Applications
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Quality and sector professionalization
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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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