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Study of Food Assistance effectiveness and efficiency
							In recent years, food insecurity has reached alarming levels. Given the limited resources available, it has become crucial to maximise the impact of each intervention and ensure the optimal use of scarce resources. In this context, DG ECHO wishes to better understand the factors influencing the effectiveness and efficiency of its food aid programmes.						

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Revision of the Quality and Accountability COMPASS

Your opinion would be valuable in starting this review process! Please complete this questionnaire to help us better respond to the different needs of organisations and the [...]

Evaluation

Diagnosis of reproductive health in Chad and results achieved under PASFASS 1

This ‘double diagnosis’ aims to lay the foundations for the second phase of the PASFASS project, taking into account changes in the context and in sexual and reproductive [...]

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Publication

Véronique de Geoffroy and Laurent Saillard

What next after the freeze of united states funding? Official development aid and the international aid community face existential questions about their future

Publication

Aline Hubert & Johana Bretou-Klein

"The green mile: NGOs driving sustainable collaboration": a comprehensive review of vehicle sharing in Lebanon

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Calendar

Organisational support

Organised by URD

From 20 March 2025 to 19 June 2025 - Online, Zoom

Series of webinars on mutual aid in crisis situations

A series of webinars is being organised as part of the ‘Mutual aid in crisis situations (phase 2: dissemination of knowledge)’ project from March to June 2025. They will [...]

Strategic support

Organised by URD

From 24 September 2025 to 26 September 2025 - Plaisians (26170, France)

UAH 2025: Between preservation and transformation – the aid sector at a crossroads

Faced with US budget cuts, declining Official Development Assistance (ODA) in many European countries, and hostile rhetoric questioning the effectiveness and legitimacy of ODA [...]

The 5 November 2025 - Online

Webinar: Greening Aid in Practice

Do you work on making your activities and operations more eco-friendly? Would you like to learn from what has – and hasn’t – worked for others? Join the webinar [...]

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Networks

The Accountability Group

The Accountability Group was created in 2017 by a group of French NGOs who wanted to bring together focal points from francophone aid o [...]

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Tools

The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), 2024

Guide "Agile or adaptive management", 2020

COMPASS handbook, 2018

Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers, 2009

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Groupe URD in the Sahel

Groupe URD, a think-tank for humanitarian action

Founded in 1993, Groupe URD is an independent think tank that specialises in analysing practices and developing policies for the humanitarian sector. Our multi-disciplinary expertise, based on continual field visits to crisis and post-crisis contexts, provides us with insight into the functioning of the sector as a whole. We believe in sharing knowledge and collective learning, and we help aid actors to improve the quality of their programmes.

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