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At HQAI, we are pleased to present HQAI’s Annual Report, which provides a comprehensive overview of our activities, key achievements, and the impact of our work in promoting quality and accountability in the humanitarian and development sectors over the past year.

Read and download the full report here:
https://www.hqai.org/en/news/annual_report_2025/

Annual Report 2025 - HQAI Annual Report 2025 is out.

LAST CALL: Registration Closing Soon

Risk Management through a CHS lens – for Humanitarian & Development Professionals
18-19 March 2026 (online)
Self-paced e-learning starts 2 March

HQAI and Peak Governance Business Advisors offer a hands-on training course that is designed to support humanitarian and development professionals in understanding how to identify, monitor, prevent, and mitigate risks — from financial and reputational threats to operational and programmatic risks and how meeting the requirements will enhance an organisation’s management of risks.

As the start date approaches, we encourage those interested to complete their registration in the coming days.

Read more and register here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VYRPWXF

HQAI celebrates its 10th anniversary!

For a decade, HQAI has supported organisations around the world to build trust with their stakeholders, embrace adaptive learning, and strengthen their systems to meet their commitments to quality and accountability more effectively.

To mark this milestone, we have gathered insights from our governance members, inputs from our community, and we took the time to blow out ten candles.

Read the full anniversary article on our website:
https://www.hqai.org/en/news/celebrating-a-decade-of-commitment-to-quality-accountability/

NEW TRAINING DATE: Risk Management through a CHS lens – for Humanitarian & Development Professionals
18-19 March 2026 (online)
Self-paced e-learning starts 2 March

HQAI and Peak Governance Business Advisors offer a hands-on training course that is designed to support humanitarian and development professionals in understanding how to identify, monitor, prevent, and mitigate risks — from financial and reputational threats to operational and programmatic risks and how meeting the requirements will enhance an organisation’s management of risks.

Read more and register here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VYRPWXF

LOCAL - Lowering Compliance Burdens for Local and National Associations

The LoCAL project, funded by DG ECHO, aims to reduce the compliance and administrative burden faced by local and national actors (LNAs) in humanitarian action. LNAs are frequently requested to undergo multiple, overlapping due diligence (DD) or partner assessment processes to access funding --- absorbing time, resources, and capacity that could otherwise be directed to operations and accountability efforts.

A DRC-led Donor and INGO Roundtable in November presented one solution - Passporting - and a practical tool to streamline processes - the Passporting Platform.
Under the LoCAL project, HQAI and consortia partners Danish Refugee Council and SPONG set out to test whether existing assessments can serve as trusted inputs/proxies for other due diligence processes. The consortium used HQAI’s audits against the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) as a high-robustness test case and produced a passporting methodology and a prototype multi-donor passporting platform, designed to operationalise the concept and provide a unified view of evidence and how this evidence was created.

This central, structured space for collecting and managing due diligence evidence brings together different due diligence requirements within a common data framework: LNA self-assessments, donor due diligence assessments, third-party CHS audits etc.

Read more about this strategic investment to support faster and fairer funding processes, more equal partnerships and better-targeted capacity strengthening:
https://www.hqai.org/en/news/local-lowering-compliance-burdens-for-local-and-national-associations/

Supporting high-quality locally-led aid: The HQAI Facilitation Fund.

HQAI CHS audits support aid providers in sustainably improving and strengthening their organisational systems. To improve accessibility, our Facilitation Fund provides financial support (subsidies) to lower the audit costs for local/national aid providers.

These combined efforts aim at objectively increasing the recognition for locally-led quality aid and will contribute to developing more equitable partnerships.

Explore our map to see the global impact of the Facilitation Fund and where it has already supported aid actors in their mission to deliver accountable quality aid:
https://www.hqai.org/en/our-work/hqai-facilitation-fund/