Network directory

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

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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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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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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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.

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CyberPeace Institute
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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The 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)
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.

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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.

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HERE-Geneva
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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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Field Ready
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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Field Ready brings manufacturing to challenging places worldwide. Our vision is to transform how aid is provided by localizing manufacturing and engaging people in new ways. Working in partnership with others, we solve problems locally in areas such as search and rescue, health, water and sanitation (WASH), livelihoods and protection.

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Anthrologica
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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Anthrologica 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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Internews
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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Internews empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account. We seek to realize the potential of a digitally connected world: a world in which evidence-based information advances human progress, enables broad opportunity and accountability, and fuels vibrant civic debate.

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BBC Media Action
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity. Our work with media and communication reaches millions of people facing insecurity, inequality, and poverty with information they can trust. We support independent media essential to democracy and development, and we reach more than 100 million people a year with information, stories, and ideas that help to save lives, improve health, protect livelihoods, challenge inequality and build more peaceful and democratic societies. We are not funded from the BBC TV Licence Fee and rely on our donors' generous support.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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