This brief is intended for practitioners and policymakers aiming to strengthen accountability to affected people (AAP) and community engagement in humanitarian responses. It captures key lessons and promising practices from northern Syria - one of the first settings globally to implement a comprehensive interagency AAP system. In light of the ongoing “Humanitarian Reset” initiated in 2025, the AAP system initiated in northern Syria in 2024 offers a timely model to localize response efforts, reduce duplication and promote collective accountability. It was subsequently recognized as a best practice in the 2024 UN Secretary-General’s report on strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance.
Resource collections
- Accountability to affected populations (AAP)
- ALNAP focus topics
- Coordination
- Earthquakes
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- IASC Accountability and Inclusion collection
- IASC Collection - Good donorship for AAP
- Learning from crises (Natural hazards)
- Locally led humanitarian action
- Monitoring of humanitarian action
