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The Guide to the HAP Standard: Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management    Authors Contents Links Other titles Oxfam information

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The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP International ) is a multi-agency initiative to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian action.

Contents

What is this Guide for? (PDF 71KB)

Part I: Introduction
1. Accountability: ‘the responsible use of power’ (PDF 67KB)

Part II: Meeting the requirements of the HAP Standard
2. Qualifying norms for Certification (PDF 118KB)
3. The Humanitarian Accountability Covenant (PDF 90KB)
4. Benchmarks for the HAP Standard (PDF 228KB)

Part III: The HAP Certification Scheme
5. What is the scheme and how does it work? (PDF 114KB)

Annex 1: Full text of the HAP Standard (PDF 146KB)
Annex 2: Acronyms and glossary (PDF 90KB)
Annex 3: Tools (PDF 641KB)
Annex 4: Quality and accountability initiatives (PDF 58KB)
Annex 5: Acknowledgements (PDF 55KB)
Index (PDF 51KB)
Whole book (PDF 1.16MB)

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• HAP International
• ALNAP
• Humanitarian Practice Network
• Sphere Project
• People In Aid
• Transparency International
• MANGO

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