Network directory

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

CDAC Network
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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CDAC 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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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Service type Data, information management and analysis
Security, logistics and programme support
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HOT 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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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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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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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.

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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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Voice
Service type Community engagement and accountability
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VOICE 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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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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MatchLocal
Service type Security, logistics and programme support
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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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CHS Alliance
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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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The CALP Network
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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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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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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Evidence Aid
Service type Data, information management and analysis
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Evidence 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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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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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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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 Studies Institute (IFP-HS)
Service type Quality and sector professionalization
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IFP-HS (Humanitarian Studies Institute) is a humanitarian organization committed to the professionalization of actors in the humanitarian and development sectors. It trains, guides, and supports students, young professionals, and humanitarian workers through practical learning pathways tailored to field realities and aligned with international standards. In response to growing crises and evolving needs, IFP-HS also works closely with local NGOs to strengthen their operational and technical capacities, promote the localization of aid, and foster sustainable, community-driven responses. All programs are co-designed with sector experts and meet globally recognized humanitarian benchmarks.

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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
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