Africa Humanitarian Standards Network Survey_

Humanitarian Quality & Accountability's contributions to the humanitarian sector in Africa

The newly formed Africa Humanitarian Standards Network (AHSN) Secretariat is now conducting a
baseline survey and wider discussions on the network's role in supporting its members, clarifying the
network's direction, and better communicating the network's goal. AHSN exists because of
and for its members, we'd want to hear from you on what you think AHSN's most essential
contributions will be in its drive to encourage field applications and learning from the nine (9) HSP Quality and Accountability initiatives in Africa.

The survey will take around 3 - 5 minutes to complete and will close on Friday 22nd July 2022

Please feel free to disseminate this to your colleagues and networks.
For questions or more information about this process, please contact Wonder Mufunda, AHSN

Secretariat <wonder@cha-africa.org>. Thank you in advance for your contribution!

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* 1. Which African country are you based in?

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* 2. What gender do you identify as?

Female

Male

Trans-gender

Prefer not to say

Non-Binary

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What category of the humanitarian sector are you working for?

UN agency

International NGO

National/Local NGO/CBO/FBO

Government

Private sector/Consultancy

Other (please specify)

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* 4. How long have you been working in the humanitarian sector?

<1 year

1 – 5 years

6 – 10 years

10 years +

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* 5. What is your current role in your line of work?

Field-level/Community-based practitioner

Technical Specialist

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Advisory/Consultant

Management

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* 6. Which of the following Quality and Accountability Standards have you ben trained in and are applying more regularly in emergency and development contexts? (Choose up to five)

Sphere Standards

Minimum Standard for Market Analysis

Child Protection Minimum Standards

Minimum Standards for Education

Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)

Minimum Economic Recovery Standards

Humanitarian Inclusion Standards for older people and people with disabilities

Minimum Standards for Camp Management

Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)

None of the above

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* 7. How have you used the humanitarian standards in emergency and development contexts? (Choose up to five)

To design humanitarian interventions

To make ongoing programming decisions during an emergency response

To conduct needs assessments during an emergency

To make decisions about how to implement a humanitarian intervention

To monitor and evaluate humanitarian interventions

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* 8. What do you think are the most important impacts/contributions that you wish to see AHSN making? (Choose up to five)

Contributing to the revisions, promoting and applying the Humanitarian Minimum Standards

Foster a Community of Practice by strengthening dialogue, awareness, and understanding of humanitarian-development coherence

Amplifying members’ voices and priorities in global policy and advocacy forums

Providing opportunities for capacity building/professional development for

members based on the Competency Framework

Providing technical support, including on tools and resources, through the AHSN Support Desk

Creating publicly available policy, advocacy, technical, and evidence tools and resources on critical and emerging thematic areas, including Inclusive Humanitarian Action, climate change, risk and resilience, conflict/disaster risk reduction, conflict-sensitive humanitarian action, etc.

Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework/toolkit for AHSN members implementing different humanitarian standards

Serving as a comprehensive database for resources from diverse actors for the humanitarian sector in Africa and beyond

Providing policy reviews/briefs that reflect and disseminate recent research, data, and evidence about humanitarian standards

Coordinating Researches

Publishing the Journal on Africa Humanitarian Action in Emergencies

Convening members through AHSN network spaces and learning forums

Connecting with members via the AHSN Community of Practice App

Providing multilingual opportunities and resources to HSP through Language Communities (English, French, Portuguese, etc.)

Providing opportunities for engagement with AHSN and its members through events and webinars (including Global Meet-Ups)

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* 9. What is your overall perception about the current humanitarian standards versions? (Choose up to three)

I appreciate the simplicity of the standards

Let us have the standards translated into our native languages for even wider outreach to communities

Low awareness amongst the people who are supposed to use the Standards

More ready-to-use forms, concrete examples, templates, and checklists would be helpful

More training on HSP standards could be conducted

More training toolkits could be developed

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* 10. Which communication channels would you prefer that AHSN Secretariat keeps in touch with you (choose up to four)

Newsletter

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram