H2H System Strengthening
The H2H Network envisions a humanitarian system capable of meeting today’s challenges while preparing for and adapting to those on the horizon. This requires investing in and advocating for efforts at system change, leveraging our enabling platform to demonstrate how innovative humanitarian solutions can help build a different kind of humanitarian action.
Outside the mainstream humanitarian service delivery, with greater room for experimentation and risk-taking, H2H actors have played a key role in driving previous major shifts in the humanitarian sector. These include the development of common humanitarian standards, cash-based approaches, and the increased use of data to inform response decisions. Today, the H2H Network supports its members to accelerate the new ideas and innovations that will help the system better meet the needs of crisis-affected people now and in the future.
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Enhancing H2H Action for Anticipatory Response
Enhancing H2H Action for Anticipatory Response
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When November 2023
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Where November 2024
Objective
To ensure that the broader humanitarian system can deliver more relevant and effective aid, the H2H Network is working to pave the way for a more forward-thinking and anticipatory approach to humanitarian responses. Aiming to ensure that we are always a step ahead in addressing the needs of those we serve, the network has developed a workstream to support members' contributions to anticipatory approaches. In addition to funding, this will be achieved by fostering an environment where members can collaborate, innovate, develop, and fine-tune H2H services related to anticipatory action.
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H2H Network innovation accelerator
H2H Network innovation accelerator
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When December 2022 - March 2023
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Where Global
Objective
The H2H Network has activated its fund mechanism to support members in developing new services aiming at unlocking change and driving improvements across the wider humanitarian system. Three H2H Members will receive financial support and guidance on how to bring their innovations to scale. Projects include a data hosting system that enables the simple and effective management of multiple datasets, an initiative supporting humanitarian actors to adapt their interventions to the climate crisis, and a tool supporting localized production and procurement in humanitarian action.
H2H Network response
Category of needDetail of serviceService providersSecurity, logistics and programme supportDeveloping a new tool to enable aid agencies to better support local markets and businesses through a local procurement learning framework.
Humanitarian Logistics Association
George Fenton, george.fenton@humanitarianlogistics.org
Data, information management and analysisDeveloping a data management solution to offer an application builder to enable humanitarian organisations to manage the whole data cycle with only one integrative tool.
Relief Applications
Julio Melon, julio@reliefapplications.org
Cecilia Pana, cecilia@reliefapplications.org
Quality and sector professionalizationDeveloping solutions to enhance the impact and implementation of their climate and humanitarian crisis initiative, ADAPT, dedicated to improving preparedness and response to environmental related disasters.
Groupe URD
Véronique de Geoffroy, vdegeoffroy@urd.org
Paul Knox Clarke, pknoxclarke@gmail.com
Statistics$45kAmount funded -
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H2H Network: Get Ready Fund
H2H Network: Get Ready Fund
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When December 2020 -- May 2021
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Where Global
Objective
The H2H Network has activated its new “Get Ready Fund”, aiming to support members to develop processes, systems and services allowing them to respond faster and more effectively to crises in 2021 and beyond. Six member agencies who specialize in community engagement and accountability; quality and sector professionalization; and data and information management, will implement projects focused on anticipation and adaptation.
H2H Network response
Category of needDetail of serviceService providersData and informationDesign and develop a ready-to-roll-out learning path “MEAL CHS - Quality and Accountability in practice” to be delivered online to field-based staff to help them implement Quality and Accountability commitments in crisis response.
CartONG / Groupe URD
Security, logistics and programme support‘Humanitarian Making’ for Everyone – a Mobile App. The humanitarian system’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has seen many aid agencies – international and local – start to make their own aid supplies such as PPE, or find new ways to support local stakeholders to produce these supplies. Field Ready will develop and publish its procedures and tools for the local production of appropriate quality aid supplies, based on its years of innovation and learning in this emerging space. The app will help everyone, anywhere to get ready for the next humanitarian emergency by helping them to make aid supplies – and to do it well.
Field Ready
Community engagement and accountabilityBuilding bridges in surge capacity for Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) by developing SOPs and tools for humanitarian responders, locally based individuals and companies experienced in CEA to act as centres of community engagement excellence and coordination.
CDAC Network/ Translators without Borders
Quality and sector professionalizationRapid Onset Localization Team (ROLT): a team of experienced regional experts and trainers fully trained, able to engage in their region on short notice, with access to a knowledge base and equipped with a series of short training modules aimed at incorporating local actors into humanitarian response.
RedR
Statistics£125kGBP -
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