From commitment to practice: advancing AAP together in humanitarian responses

Against the backdrop of the #Humanitarian Reset and growing pressure from widespread aid cuts, the humanitarian system faces a reckoning: adapt or risk failing the very people it seeks to support.

Co-hosted by OCHA, UNFPA, UNICEF, and ALNAP, this online event explored how lessons from evaluation and research can help overcome systemic barriers to accountability to affected people (AAP) — and how #AAP commitments can be turned into meaningful change in humanitarian responses. Additionally, the discussion explored what’s working in practice and identifies concrete steps we can all take to strengthen accountability and advance the shift from commitment to action.

Speakers:
Gemma Connell | Chief, Strategic Prioritization and Practices Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)
Bouchta Mourabit | Deputy Representative in Syria, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Charles Antoine Hofmann | Senior Advisor, Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS), UNICEF
Keynote:
Nimo Hassan | Executive Director, Somali NGO Consortium & Chair of International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) Board

This event is facilitated by Juliet Parker, Director at ALNAP.

Timestamps:
00:44 Welcome and agenda | Juliet Parker  
04:15 Keynote | Nimo Hassan
12:00 Panel Discussion | Moderated by Juliet Parker
1:05:30 Q&A
1:28:00 Concluding remarks

Now is the moment for leaders and donors to act — to make accountability to affected people the foundation of a reset humanitarian system by driving structural change and creating the incentives to do so.

Resources:
ALNAP’s AAP Collection – resources, tools, best practices & lessons: https://alnap.org/help-library/focus-...
ALNAP’s Explain briefing on AAP – https://alnap.org/help-library/resour...
Report on Accountability to Affected People - OCHA Evaluation Report (20 July 2025): https://www.unocha.org/publications/r...
Voices that shape humanitarian responses: Advancing accountability to affected people in northern Syria:  https://arabstates.unfpa.org/en/publi...
  
ALNAP’s Explain briefings offer straightforward communications to help humanitarian decision-makers make sense of, and engage with, current evidence and discourse on key humanitarian topics. Explore the series here: https://alnap.org/topics/explain-brie...
 
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