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 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 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 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 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 From the Field: What Audit Interviews with Beneficiaries Actually Look Like Every HQAI audit involves talking with people receiving assistance. Not as a tick-box exercise, not through an interpreter with a questionnaire — but as a genuine, structured conversation designed to ... Accountability CHS Certification Field Perspectives Mar 11, 2024
Administrator What Does It Mean to Be CHS Certified? A Plain-Language Guide Every year, millions of people in crisis rely on humanitarian organisations for food, shelter, medical care, and protection. The quality of that support varies enormously — and affected communities of... Accountability CHS Certification Quality Assurance Jan 22, 2024
