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A video to understand the effects and impact of the project Learning and Innovating to improve crises response, 2016-2026

A short video to summarize the study's findings of the effects and impact of the project Learning and Innovating to improve crises response (APIC). After nine years of implementation, the evaluation of the project confirms the unique position of the ‘Learning and Innovating in the Face of Crises’ project within the ecosystem: an intermediary space, close enough to the ground to understand the issues at stake, and independent enough to question, connect and help bring about change.

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Please complete the survey for the APIC 3 Project!

It will only take a few minutes to complete this survey, which will help us draw lessons from Phase 3 of the “Learning and Innovating to improve crisis response" project. [...]

Strategic support

Podcast "L'humanitaire pris aux mots" : When Aid Dries Up: What Remains of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Chad?

This is the first episode in a series dedicated to the PASFASS 2 project, which aims to reduce gender inequalities by improving access to sexual and reproductive health and [...]

Resources

Publication
Groupe URD's 2025 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Humanitarian Aid on the Move
Humanitarian Aid on the Move No. 27
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Tools

The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), 2024

The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) sets out nine commitments to ensure that organisations support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability in ways that respect their rights and dignity and [...]

Guide "Agile or adaptive management", 2020

This document gathers together existing good practice in terms of agility. It provides a complete, coherent approach to managing an aid programme in a complex situation. It aims to answer the following questions: what is ‘agile or adaptive [...]

COMPASS handbook, 2018

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The COMPASS is a quality and accountability management method for humanitarian and development projects. This methodological guide includes recommendations and tools to implement the quality and accountability commitments of the Core [...]

Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers, 2009

The Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers contains detailed practical advice on the participation of affected people in humanitarian action. It has three sections: Developing a participatory approach (main issues, key factors, [...]

The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), 2024

Guide "Agile or adaptive management", 2020

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COMPASS handbook, 2018

Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers, 2009

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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.