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11/05/2016
The CHS Alliance is looking forward to participating in the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit where we're calling on our members and other humanitarian stakeholders to commit to adopting, using and monitoring the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). You can easily join our call on social media and we've created some tips and tools to help you do so.
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06/05/2016
The conference will explore the theme Investigating allegations of sexual exploitation & abuse (SEA) by aid workers. It will offer a safe space for participants to exchange experiences of challenges and opportunities which will result in valuable learning for all to take back to their organisations.
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15/04/2016
The CHS Alliance will take part in the InterAction Forum next week in Washington D.C. and looks forward to meeting our members and stakeholders who may be attending.
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11/04/2016
The Transforming Surge Capacity Project launched the seminal research report, “The State of Surge Capacity in the Humanitarian Sector”, at an event in London on 7 April. The project brings together 11 Start Network agencies with ActionAid leading and the CHS Alliance as technical partner.
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08/04/2016
The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) is now available in Thai. The CHS management team would like to thank independent translators Shane Hughes, Watcharee Suebkhajorn, and Siam Translation Services for their tireless work translating the Thai language version of the CHS, which will be an invaluable resource for the community of humanitarian and development organisations working in Thailand.
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23/03/2016
The CHS Alliance is calling on on stakeholders attending the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul, 23-24 May 2016 to adopt, use and monitor the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) as proposed in the official invitation to the "People at the Centre" Special Session of the summit.
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21/03/2016
The CHS Alliance’s Executive Director, Judith F. Greenwood visited Bangladesh for the launch of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) in Bangla and field visits in early February on the invitation of CHS Alliance member COAST Trust.
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15/03/2016
What are the characteristics of an outstanding leadership team? Charities are complex organisations that often work in challenging situations and rely heavily on their leadership teams to fulfil their mandates and missions. However, there isn’t a lot of documented research on senior leadership teams in charities.
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08/03/2016
The CHS Alliance would like to wish all humanitarian and development actors and those they aim to assist around the world a happy International Women’s Day.
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02/03/2016
The World Humanitarian Summit has published the final report on its Global Consultation which engaged with more than 23,000 people in over 150 countries over 18 months, concluding in Geneva from 14 to 16 October 2015.
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01/03/2016
Following an invitation from UNICEF in late 2015, the CHS Alliance has joined the steering committee for an OFDA funded project aiming to promote better integration of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and more people-centred approaches to humanitarian actions in the work of global and country clusters and other coordination mechanisms.
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11/02/2016
The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) has been launched in Bangla at a seminar in Dhaka, after its development during a year-long participatory process that included field testing. CHS Alliance Executive Director, Judith Greenwood joined the panel discussion on Accountability and Quality Management in Humanitarian Actions: Bangladesh Perspective.
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10/02/2016
We are pleased to announce that the CHS Alliance will organise a conference on PSEA on 5 September 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, focusing on good practices in investigations of allegation of SEA by aid workers.
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08/02/2016
Following the launch of the CHS Guidance Notes and Indicators in English and French, this document is now available in Arabic and Spanish.
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04/02/2016
The Executive Director of the Alliance, Judith F. Greenwood, has joined an international network committed to gender parity. International Geneva Gender Champions is a leadership network that brings together female and male decision-makers to break down gender barriers.
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26/01/2016
The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) is now available in Nepali.
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22/01/2016
The CHS Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Tickner as the new chairperson of its board, effective 19 January 2016.
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18/01/2016
In August 2015, Dr Scott Breslin, International Director of Operation Mercy, led a five-day seminar in Tehran (Iran) entitled “Caring for Caregivers”. Dr Breslin gives an overview of the workshop and shares his reflections on it in the attached report.
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14/01/2016
Booking is now open for capacity strengthening courses on the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), complaints and response mechanisms, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and investigations in Jordan and Thailand in 2016.
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23/12/2015
2015 was a busy and exciting time for the CHS Alliance which came into being on 9 June 2015 at its Constitutive General Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. Over the past six months, the Alliance team has supported members and the wider humanitarian and development sector in applying the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and broader aspects of quality, accountability and people management.
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