HAP International's Aims and Activities
HAP International developed the “HAP Standard in Accountability and Quality Management”, a tool to help organisations design, implement, assess, improve and recognise accountable programmes. Being accountable to crisis-affected communities helps organisations develop quality programmes that meet those people’s needs, and reduces the possibility of mistakes, abuse (including sexual exploitation and abuse) and corruption. The 2010 HAP Standard is the result of an extensive review process that involved wide consultation with different stakeholders, including crisis-affected communities, aid workers and donors.
HAP’s strategic value proposition is that quality, accountability and programme results are inextricably linked. By improving agency accountability in a systematic way, programme quality, impact and outcomes will also be enhanced. The essential tools for driving this virtual circle are the application of a programme quality management system (designed in accordance with the HAP Standard), reinforced through shared learning and independent auditing. To these ends HAP International offers a range of training workshops and audit services (members can be officially certified by HAP). All stakeholders, including the people an organisation aims to assist, crisis-affected communities, donors and the humanitarian organisations themselves, make measurable gains as a consequence of the work undertaken by the Partnership.
The objectives of HAP International are:
- to develop and maintain the HAP Standard through research, consultation, and collaboration;
- to support members and potential members of HAP International in applying the HAP Standard by providing training and advice;
- to communicate, advocate, promote, and report on the HAP Standard;
- to monitor and report on the implementation of the HAP Standard and to certify its members accordingly; and
- to assist members in finding solutions where concerns or complaints are raised about them.
HAP International’s work is based on the findings of the Humanitarian Accountability Project, a 2001 inter-agency action research initiative, as well as the Joint Evaluation of the International Response to the Genocide in Rwanda.
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