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People-Centred Approaches in Humanitarian Coordination: Reviewing and Improving Cluster Performance

This matrix and accompanying presentation and facilitation notes can be used to help national clusters to review and assess their performance and prioritise actions to ensure people are at the centre of the cluster's work. The matrix uses the Core Cluster Performance Management (CCPM) survey as the…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Partner Project Peer Review Template

This document provides short guidance and a template for the peer review of Cluster partner project sheets which usually takes place as part of Humanitarian Response Plan or Flash Appeal processes. This is a key part of the harmonization process and will help ensure a quality and coordinated…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

Localisation in Coordination

"The World Humanitarian Summit recognised that increased localisation is fundamental to the delivery of a dignified and effective humanitarian response, concluding that humanitarian action should be “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The associated Grand Bargain emphasized the…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Localisation

Education Cluster Strategy Template Instructions

This document contains walkthrough instructions for how to compile and style your Education Cluster Strategy and is intended to be used alongside Education Cluster Strategy Template

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

The Role of an Information Management Officer in Humanitarian Response

This document defines the broad concepts and role of Information Management in the context of a humanitarian response. It provides recommendation on ways forward for strengthening information management, and concludes with overarching guidance on the role of IM within the context of a typical…

  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Strategic Planning

Participatory Approaches

Using participatory approaches in impact evaluationmeans involving stakeholders, particularly the participants in a programme or those affected by a given policy, in specific aspects of the evaluation process. The term covers a wide range of different types of participation, which differ in terms…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

NGO Cluster Co-Coordination Manual

This manual with tools and guidance on NGO co-coordination of clusters and sector working groups was developed by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to guide country offices that engage in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership

HUMANITARIAN NEGOTIATION

A HANDBOOK FOR SECURING ACCESS, ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION FOR CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT

  • Coordination: Advocacy

Education - An Essential Component of a Humanitarian Response

This document offers a synthesis of key information to advocate for education to be part of a humanitarian response: the rationale for EiE, the benefits of providing education, the risks to out of school children, how education strengthens other sectors

  • Communicaiton: Communication Materials
  • Coordination: Advocacy
  • HPC: Resource Mobilisation
  • Technical Areas: Protection

Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring (CCPM)

Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring (CCPM) is a self-assessment exercise. Clusters assess their performance against the six core cluster functions and accountability to affected populations. It is a country-led process, supported globally. Ideally, it is carried out by all clusters/sectors…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Knowledge Mangement
  • HPC: Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Coordination

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