Systematically integrating community voices into humanitarian response management

The project supports Ground Truth Solutions to humanitarian actors in Burkina Faso in developing implementing and monitoring Humanitarian Response Plans that consider the views priorities and feedback of crisis-affected communities including gender-specific perspectives. This project aims to address current gaps in accountability to affected populations by assessing and improving the efficacy and impact of humanitarian assistance. Project activities include: (1) gathering data through regular perception surveys from recipients of humanitarian assistance; (2) triangulating the data collected from crisis-affected populations with information from humanitarian partners. This would allow for a well-rounded analysis of the situation; (3) completing surveys of field workers and the local partners of international agencies. This would provide additional insight for humanitarian managers and donors; and (4) reporting the analyses and other findings to humanitarian partners and policymakers to influence and improve humanitarian response.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved gender-responsive humanitarian action by providing strong evidence and quality analysis regarding the experience of women and girls in crisis; (2) improved accountability in the humanitarian system by integrating the views and priorities of affected populations as an important performance metric in Humanitarian Response Plans; (3) improved support for humanitarian staff and systems through targeted capacity building on increasing accountability to affected populations; and (4) strengthened systematic feedback systems by supporting individual agencies in acting on the response-wide data. The expected ultimate outcome is reduced suffering increased and maintained human dignity and lives saved in populations experiencing humanitarian crises.