In line with previous projects such as ‘Do No Harm’ and ‘Reflecting on Peace Practice’, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects launched the ‘Listening Project’ in 2005, which aims to record and analyse the ideas and feelings of people who have been the beneficiaries of humanitarian, development, peace-building and human rights programmes.
The quality of aid was long seen as the sole responsibility of humanitarian agencies. Yet the practices of funding agencies have a direct impact on the quality of aid. The Good Humanitarian Donorship principles and the recently developed Humanitarian Response Index have begun to shed light on this question.
Groupe URD, ALNAP, Coordination Sud, the Humanitarian Accountability Project, People In Aid and the Sphere Project (Q&A initiatives) present their shared vision of Quality and Accountability.
ALNAP’s 21st Biannual Meeting looks at what has been achieved so far regarding the Quality of humanitarian action and how this can be taken to the next level…