Accountability to affected populations (AAP)

Racing against rumours: Understanding harmful information on humanitarian needs and response in Lebanon

This CDAC Network report examines how harmful information circulates within Lebanon's aid system, affecting both service delivery and community decisions.

• Research and Studies

Explain: Accountability to affected populations - Putting people at the centre

Explain briefing exploring the latest thinking and evidence on accountability to affected populations.

• Research and Studies

“Many families marry their daughters off at the age of 10”: Supporting women through the impacts of natural hazards in Afghanistan

Case studies of the drought in Faryab, the flood in Baglan, and the earthquake in Herat.

• Research and Studies

"A woman cannot discuss her problems with a man” – Strengthening accountability to women and girls in Afghanistan

The research explores perceptions of safety, access to assistance, and barriers to reporting protection incidents for women and girls in Afghanistan.

• Research and Studies

On the brink: The devastating toll of aid cuts on people forced to flee

This report details the reductions in the overall scale of UNHCR activities and workforce by around one-third following the severe funding shortfalls in 2025, and the impact those have had on people forced to flee.

• Research and Studies

Heat as humanitarian crisis: What local organisations are doing

Special issue of Southasiadisasters.net on one of the fastest-growing humanitarian threats of our time—extreme heat.

• Research and Studies

Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: Ebola disease

Contains a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) practitioners, decision-makers and partners to plan and implement readiness and response activities for Ebola disease outbreaks.

• Guidance and Tools

Ensemble d’outils concernant la communication sur les risques et la mobilisation communautaire dans le cadre de la préparation opérationnelle et la riposte face à la maladie à virus Ebola

Cet ensemble d’outils constitue une panoplie complète d’outils et d’instruments pratiques conçus pour aider les professionnels, les responsables politiques et les partenaires impliqués dans la communication sur les risques et la mobilisation communautaire (CRMC) au niveau national à planifier et à mettre en œuvre des activités concernant la préparation opérationnelle et la riposte en cas de flambée épidémique de maladie à virus Ebola.

• Guidance and Tools

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

This study quantifies the potential epidemiological impacts on the tuberculosis burden attributable to international reductions in funding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 - The cruel math of aid cuts

This GHO Special Edition reflects collective responses to the devastating funding cuts to the humanitarian sector in 2025.

• Research and Studies

Quality, accountability and safeguarding (QAS) in action: A smart guide for aid actors

This Guide ‘QAS in Action’ aims to support a holistic and contextualised application of Quality, Accountability, and Safeguarding (QAS) from a people-centered perspective, for anyone dedicated to supporting communities’ life with dignity in a transparent and safe manner.

• Guidance and Tools

Impact evaluation of resilience interventions on food security, livelihoods and women empowerment in Rwanda

This impact evaluation of WFP's SMART programme assessed community resilience building stronger soil and water management asset base, livelihood strengthening and diversification, farmer organization capacity strengthening and access to inputs and markets, and social cohesion and gender transformation activities.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Reckoning and renewal: A future-ready humanitarian system

• Research and Studies

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

This study evaluates the effect of all USAID funding on adult and child mortality over the past two decades and forecasts the future effect of its defunding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Transforming pastoral livelihoods through market interventions: does the impact match expectations? Lessons from a decade of investments in Somali Region, Ethiopia

This report identifies lessons about the development model and theory of change, and its appropriateness for pastoral economies.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The humanitarian research and innovation landscape - 2024 report

This report is an overview of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of Elrha’s Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE). The GPE aims to improve outcomes for people affected by crisis and address gaps in knowledge about how humanitarian research and innovation (HRI) operates.

• Research and Studies

Strategic roadmap 2025-2027: A hybrid approach to risk-informed and people-centred cash programming in Asia and the Pacific Region

• Guidance and Tools

Evaluation of Islamic Relief’s field office complaints and feedback policy and its application

Evaluation of Islamic Reliefs field office complaints and feedback policy and its application

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Future of aid 2040: Pathways to transformation

The ‘Future of Aid 2040’ report involved civil society from the Global South in reimagining the very foundations of the ‘aid’ system.

• Research and Studies

Aid sector in transition: Challenges, ethics and adaptation

This latest Practice Paper by CWSA unpacks real time impacts of the shifting aid landscape across the Global South

• Research and Studies