Administrator HQAI Publishes 2025 Annual Report: Accountability at a Crossroads The HQAI 2025 Annual Report is now available. Ten years after our founding in Geneva, and in the year of the CHS revision, this report is an opportunity to reflect on what has changed — and what stubb... Annual Report Partnerships Quality Assurance Sector News Jun 3, 2025
Administrator Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Accountability Framework The accountability framework landscape can seem bewildering. The Core Humanitarian Standard. Sphere. PSEA commitments. ISO 9001. The Grand Bargain transparency workstream. UNICEF's Core Commitments fo... Accountability Quality Assurance Training & Capacity Feb 25, 2025
Administrator Our 2025 Outlook: Priorities for Humanitarian Quality Assurance A new year brings new opportunities to advance what we believe is a simple but important idea: that humanitarian organisations should be independently, externally, and publicly accountable to the peop... Annual Report Quality Assurance Sector News Jan 14, 2025
Administrator Quality Assurance in Ukraine: Lessons from Rapid-Scale Humanitarian Response When Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, the humanitarian response that followed was unlike almost anything the sector had seen in recent history: enormous in scale, rapid ... Accountability Field Perspectives Sector News Dec 9, 2024
Administrator The CHS Revision 2024: What Changed and Why It Matters The Core Humanitarian Standard was first published in 2014 — itself the product of a decade-long sector dialogue about accountability principles. A decade on, the world has changed. The humanitarian s... CHS Revision Quality Assurance Sector News Nov 19, 2024
Administrator Training Our Auditors: What It Takes to Conduct a CHS Audit The quality of an audit depends, more than anything else, on the quality of the auditors. At HQAI, we take that seriously — both in how we select auditors and in how we continuously invest in their de... Quality Assurance Training & Capacity Oct 14, 2024
Administrator Introducing the HQAI Benchmarking Service: Your Accountability Starting Point Where does your organisation actually stand on accountability? Not where you think you stand based on your own internal assessments. Not where you claim to stand in your donor reports. Where you actua... Accountability Benchmarking Quality Assurance Sep 16, 2024
Administrator FCDO Passporting: What CHS Certification Means for UK Aid Partners In early 2024, the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) formally adopted CHS Certification as a recognised quality marker in its humanitarian partner due diligence process. For org... CHS Certification Donor Relations Sector News Aug 5, 2024
Administrator Independent Verification: The Three-Year Path to Accountability CHS Certification gets most of the attention. But for many organisations — particularly those at an earlier stage of their accountability journey, or those operating at significant scale — CHS Indepen... Accountability Independent Verification Quality Assurance Jul 9, 2024
Administrator Case Study: NRC's Path from Verification to Certification The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is one of the world's leading displacement organisations, operating in over 35 countries with a focus on legal assistance, education, shelter, and food security. In... Case Study CHS Certification Independent Verification Jun 17, 2024
Administrator Accountability to Affected Populations: Still the Hardest Commitment The Core Humanitarian Standard contains nine commitments. Across more than 200 audits since HQAI's founding in 2015, one commitment stands out — consistently, across organisation types, geographies, a... Accountability CHS Certification Field Perspectives MEAL May 20, 2024
Administrator How the ECHO Ex-Ante Assessment Works — and Who It Is For Since 2019, HQAI has been mandated by the European Commission's humanitarian aid department (DG ECHO) to conduct ex-ante assessments of organisations applying for humanitarian partnership agreements. ... Donor Relations ECHO Assessment Quality Assurance Apr 8, 2024
