This document sets out the terms of references for the Inter Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) Task Forces following the IASC Principals and Deputies decisions of December 2021.
The Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) is an OCHA-managed Country-Based Pooled Fund (CBPF) under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator that makes funding directly available to humanitarian partners operating in Yemen, enabling them to deliver timely and effective life-saving assistance to people who need it most. The OCHA Humanitarian Financing Unit (HFU) manages the day-to-day operations of the YHF.
“Women and girls are central to every social contract. Unfortunately, their specific needs and
aspirations are largely ignored, and their work is routinely undervalued.”
– António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General (10 February 2022)
Executive summary
As the humanitarian community has sought to integrate Accountability to Affected People (AAP) within its programming throughout the last decade, there have been continued criticisms over mixed understandings of AAP and the irregularity of its endorsement. In response, the IASC and UN OCHA have begun field testing the Accountability to Affected People Collective Framework (the Framework) as a means to operationalise a renewed commitment from humanitarian leadership, and to harmonise in-country AAP practices.