How do we perform in our own application of the Core Humanitarian Standard?
With the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) at the heart of our mandate and the motto "practise what you preach" in mind, we went through our own self-assessment against the CHS. In this blog, Geneviève, who spear-headed the process, explores how we went about it, what we found out, and how we could improve our performance.
In this blog, Grethe Markussen introduces three videos produced by the Listen Learn Act (LLA) Project to show how perceptional surveys bring NGOs new insight about programme quality and accountability to affected people.
Do you ever feel like something is holding you back? Resilient organisations start with resilient people.
Katy is a coach, organisational development consultant and facilitator with 20 years experience in the NGO and commercial sectors. Together with Fiona Smith, she has recently founded Catalyst Collective to create and share inspirational resources for change-making women.
Whose voices are being heard in your agency? How can each of us shift from holding back to stepping up? In the run-up to HHR Asia, Katy Murray, the founder of Catalyst Collective, invites participants to take a 'confidence cocktail' mini-course to help them reflect on these issues.
There are no specific figures on how much humanitarian aid is lost to corruption, but it definitely undermines humanitarian response. The synthesis report of the Collective Resolution to Enhance Accountability and Transparency in Emergencies (CREATE) initiative underlines that collective action is needed to combat corruption effectively. We identified seven ways in which the CHS supports transparency and, as such, helps curb corruption in the humanitarian sector.
In this blog, Faye Ekong, Director for Human Resources, Learning & Development at Action Against Hunger USA, shares her organisation's experience in setting up a new and more efficient way of doing performance management.
Can HR professionals help boost the localisation of aid response?
On 21 and 22 September HHR Europe was held in Helsinki, where 72 participants came together from different organisations to discuss the challenges related to the localisation agenda. The theme of this year's HHR Europe Conference was 'As local as possible; as international as necessary. The role of HR in enabling the localisation of aid response'.
Lauren McWilliams is Project & Events Officer with CHS Alliance. She has been managing the coaching component of the Talent Development Programme.
The Global Learning Forum hosted by Oxfam from 4 until 8 September was a unique opportunity for the different actors of the Talent Development Project to share their learnings from the past three years. Lauren McWilliams reflects back on the forum and shares what she took out of it.
Alix Wadeson is an aid and development consultant with a decade of experience in the sector working for INGOs at HQ and in the field.
Reflections on the CHS self-assessment process: what the CHS can bring to your organisation if applied meaningfully.
Markus Forsberg manages the Collaboration Center for the Recognition of Skills, Experience, and Learning. He has worked with PHAP since 2012, focusing on member services and platforms. He has professional experience in IT management and development from the private sector and NGOs, as well as with government, EU, and UN actors.
In April this year, the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) launched an exciting new program with the support of CHS Alliance and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
Tom Arcaro is a professor of sociology at Elon University, North Carolina, and founder of Elon's Periclean Scholars program. He has been researching and studying aid and development issues for nearly two decades and most recently published 'Aid Worker Voices' (2016). He is currently working on a second book tentatively titled 'Local Aid Worker Voices.' He is also working on implementing a vetting system for community-based learning (both domestic and international) that will ensure the highest ethical pedagogical practices. You can read his blogs at: blogs.elon.edu/aidworkervoices.
Tom Arcaro, a professor of sociology at Elon University, North Carolina, tells us about his experience in adopting the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) in US higher education.
The extent of the use of competency-based approaches is mixed in the Philippines. Upon her return from Manila, Samantha Wakefield, CHS Alliance's HR and People Management Thematic Lead, reflects on the way ahead to further introduce and strengthen competency-based people management in the humanitarian and development sectors in the Philippines.
One year after the Grand Bargain was endorsed, the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI), with the involvement of the CHS Alliance, released its Independent Grand Bargain Report, taking stock of the progress made to date. In this blog, Ann gives an overview of the report's main findings.
Emma Jones is a researcher and consultant with experience on a range of international development and education projects, Kate Denman is a programme manager at RedR UK and an independent consultant, and Elizabeth Molloy is an education and gender specialist.
The European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) commissioned a research project to understand the security needs of NGO staff with a range of identity profiles including SOGIE, ethnicity and disability. The aim of this blog is to introduce you to the project and to ask for feedback.
Gemma Prescott is the Alliance's CHCF Project Manager.
The CHCF project team attended the DEPP National Learning Conference in Dhaka where the revised CHCF was shared for inputs. Gemma gives an overview of the visit.
Lucy Heaven Taylor co-author of the PSEA Implementation Quick Reference Handbook shares their experiences on the process of developing the Handbook.
Building an organisational Learning and Development Framework: 'We can do it'.
Ann is an L&D consultant working in the NGO and INGO sector. Originally trained as a midwife, her area of particular interest is in encouraging small and medium sized organisations, or partner organisations, to adopt good staff development practices. She has lived and worked internationally since 1988.
Ann from Start Development gives an overview of our guide to designing a Learning and Development Framework, which was drafted in order to support NGOs in strengthening their people management practices and processes.
Uma Narayanan works with clients to help sharpen their organisational effectiveness in aspects of human resources (HR), organisational development (OD) and accountability, Gemma Prescott is the Alliance's CHCF Project Manager.
In this blog, the team responsible for the revision of the Core Humanitarian Competencies Framework (CHCF) shares details about the upcoming implementation phase. In the following months, several initiatives will be launched to support and promote the framework.
Emma Jones is a PhD Candidate and recipient of an Excellence Scholarship at the University of East London. She is also a researcher and lecturer at University College London and the University of East London. Emma contributed to the RedR and EISF workshop as an independent consultant.
In this blog Emma Jones, PhD Candidate at the University of East London discusses how individual characteristics (e.g. gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious identity or disability) may intersect to create specific vulnerabilities for aid workers.
Em Lacroix is the Partnership Development Manager for the Cornerstone on Demand Foundation. She has more than 12 years of experience as an HR and capacity building practitioner in the aid sector, and is a strong advocate for good practice in people management in the humanitarian and development sectors.
In this blog Em Lacroix introduces the Human Resource (HR) Package, which provides CHS Alliance members with resources and tools to improve people management in the humanitarian and development sectors.