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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 Leadership Academy
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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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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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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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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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Evidence Aid
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileEvidence Aid aims to save lives and livelihoods in disasters by providing decision-makers with the best available evidence and by championing its use. Working prior to, during and after disasters, Evidence Aid ensures that humanitarian actors have access to the very latest evidence in the right format and the right language. -
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Humanitarian Quality Assurance (HQAI)
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileHQAI 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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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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CLEAR Global
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileCLEAR 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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DataQ
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Location Sudan
ProfileDataQ 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. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CDAC Network
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileCDAC Network is the global alliance of many of the world’s biggest humanitarian and media development organisations – including UN agencies, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, media and specialist communications organisations – committed to putting the power in humanitarian action back in the hands of communities. We believe that when communities have the information and the resources to make their own decisions, they have the capacity to find solutions to even the most challenging problems. We work to enable them to do this. -
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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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HERE-Geneva
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileHERE’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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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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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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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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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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Kobo
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileKobo is the NGO behind KoboToolbox, the world’s leading open source data collection and visualization software for humanitarian contexts. KoboToolbox is a foundational data technology for the sector, providing critical tools for timely, accurate, and actionable data, enabling frontline organizations to more efficiently and effectively deliver targeted aid and responsive programming. KoboToolbox is designed for low-resource environments, featuring multilingual and offline capabilities that are essential for operations in challenging contexts. We also offer direct project support, dashboard development, training, and online courses to strengthen humanitarian data capacities. -
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Mixed Migration Centre (MMC)
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
ProfileThe 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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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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Center for Humanitarian Leadership (CHL)
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Service type Quality and sector professionalization
ProfileThe 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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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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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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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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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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Internews
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileInternews 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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iMMAP Inc.
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileiMMAP 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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BBC Media Action
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Service type Community engagement and accountability
ProfileBBC 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. -
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Map Action
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
ProfileIn 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. -
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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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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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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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Nasa Lifelines
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Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Location US
ProfileNASA Lifelines, launched in October 2023, is a mission-driven initiative that bridges Earth science and humanitarian action. By bringing together affected communities, humanitarians, scientists, and policymakers, the program accelerates the use of satellite data and Earth observation tools to improve decision-making before, during, and after crises. Lifelines is building a global, interdisciplinary community to unlock the benefits of space-based data for vulnerable populations, creating a future where Earth science directly enhances humanitarian action. -
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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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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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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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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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