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Accountability and Inclusion involve making sure that affected communities - especially individuals who are most at risk - are at the centre of, and driving, humanitarian action. The IASC views systematic accountability and inclusion as essential to meeting organizational and collective standards and commitments, including the Grand Bargain.

Results Group 2 on Accountability and Inclusion

IASC RESULTS GROUP 2 (RG2) ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND INCLUSION is a service for humanitarian leaders and responders which provides response-wide guidance, tools, and technical support. The Results Group supports humanitarian leaders and responders in demonstrating system change through collective approaches to accountability and inclusion in overall response efforts including enabling people to address sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, and the meaningful participation of all community members in all stages of the humanitarian programme cycle. In doing so, it considers persons with disabilities, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) and gender, age and other important distinctions.

Coherent linkages between the Grand Bargain Workstream 6 (Participation Revolution) and RG2 are evidenced through complementary approaches to agency-level actions (primarily GB Workstream 6) and collective-level change (primarily RG2). RG2 provides a service package across humanitarian response and the nexus, while Workstream 6 focuses on agency and project efforts; levering the Grand Bargain’s ability to influence a broader stakeholder group toward transformative change.

 Priority areas of support to humanitarian leadership:

  1. Support the delivery of better, more accountable, inclusive humanitarian action. More accountable aid workers.

  2. Improve approaches and linkages on accountability and inclusion including protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment.

  3. Provide better access to standards, guidance, tools and resources on accountability and inclusion including protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment.

Note: This group builds on the valuable outputs of the previous IASC Task Team on Accountability to Affected Populations and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and the IASC Task Team on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. These task teams have completed their work in 2019.

RG2 DELIVERABLES 2020:

ACCOUNTABILITY AND INCLUSION PORTAL  - a go-to place for practitioners to better understand HOW to ensure responses are accountable and inclusive by making tools, guidance, policy, standards and advice more accessible (responsibility for the content sits with the contributing organization)

(coming soon) SERVICE DIRECTORY – Directory for practitioners and leaders to better know WHO can provide support for collective accountability and inclusion efforts and WHERE (responsibility for the content sits with the contributing organization)

(coming soon) RESULTS TRACKER – a tool to measure HOW WELL the system is doing in terms of collective accountability and inclusion 

(coming soon) ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK – a tool to help field leaders know WHAT to do to ensure collective responses are accountable and inclusive

KEY IASC DOCUMENTS AND LINKAGES:
 


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Please find here key IASC documents and linkages that guide the work of RG2. 

 

 

Upcoming meetings

Apr
22
2021

HNPW Session: High-level Panel on AAP

Geneva
10:00 to 11:00
Apr
22
2021

HNPW Session: High-level Panel on AAP

Geneva
10:00 to 11:00
Apr
22
2021

HNPW Session: Feedback data is useless! (Until someone acts upon it)

Geneva
11:00 to 12:30
Apr
22
2021

HNPW Session: Feedback data is useless! (Until someone acts upon it)

Geneva
11:00 to 12:30
Apr
26
2021

HNPW Session: Stories of Adaptation and anticipation in the post 2020 humanitarian landscape

Geneva
14:00 to 15:15
Apr
26
2021

HNPW Session: Stories of Adaptation and anticipation in the post 2020 humanitarian landscape

Geneva
14:00 to 15:15
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Past meetings

Apr
15
2021

IASC Results Group 2 Meeting on Accountability and Inclusion

Geneva
15:30 to 17:30
Feb
11
2021

IASC Results Group 2 Meeting on Accountability and Inclusion

Geneva
15:30 to 17:30
Nov
17
2020

IASC Results Group 2 Meeting on Accountability and Inclusion

15:00 to 17:00
Nov
02
2020

IASC Results Group 2 Meeting on Accountability and Inclusion

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Oct
15
2020

RG2/A4EP Webinar on "Accountability to Whom"

Geneva
11:00 to 12:30
Oct
05
2020

IASC Results Group 2 Meeting on Accountability and Inclusion

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
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IASC Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Microsite

The IASC PSEA Microsite offers more inter-agency resources. 

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The Go-To Place for Practitioners who Strive to Implement People-Centered Approaches

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Accountability and Inclusion Service Directory

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Directory for practitioners and leaders to better know WHO can provide support for collective accountability and inclusion efforts and WHERE 
(responsibility for the content sits with the contributing organization)

COVID-19 RESOURCES
  • COVID-19 RESOURCES RELATING TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND INCLUSION 

(Note that these resources can also be accessed through the Portal above) 

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Co-Chairs

  • Ms. Meritxell Relano
    Director, Office of Emergency Operations, Geneva
    UNICEF
    Email
    mrelano [at] unicef.org
  • Ms. Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth
    Deputy Director, Division of International Protection
    UNHCR
    Email
    castel [at] unhcr.org
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MUST READ: 6 CORE PRINCIPLES

The IASC 6 Core PSEA Principles have been translated into over 100 languages. Find your language here.  Please note: these are about to be updated following the recent revision of principle 4.   

HELPDESK

Visit Helpdesk Page on the Accountability and Inclusion Portal for questions on AAP, PSEAH and Inclusion!

Workplans and Progress Reports
Priority Areas of Work for the IASC Results Groups for 2020
IASC Results Group 2, Progress Report, April-October 2019

Recent documents

  • Results Group Membership
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