Accountability in action

There has arguably never been a more critical time to actively listen to the voices of women and girls in Afghanistan, and yet opportunities to do so are limited, and complicated. The Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) conducted by CARE Afghanistan from June-July 2021 indicate that women’s exclusion from decision-making spaces extends to humanitarian assistance, especially since the ban on women working for national and international NGOs, which has left little opportunities to engage with women.

With experience in designing simple and sustainable feedback systems, and the ability to train NGOs in how to best implement them, Ground Truth Solutions supported local Afghan NGOs in building the tools, skills and experience necessary to run systematic feedback mechanisms independently.

Ground Truth Solutions has been supporting Accountability to Affected People efforts under the U-Learn Consortium which promotes improved outcomes for refugees and host communities in Uganda.

Aiming to strengthen localisation through capacity building, we worked to support local actors in the region by embedding sustainable, locally-led solutions in-country.

In partnership with the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC) and the Ugandan Red Cross Society (URCS), Ground Truth Solutions supported the creation and implementation of a systematic feedback system for the Innovative Approaches to Response Preparedness (IARP) project in Uganda.

Together with the British Red Cross (BRC) we developed a feedback mechanism for affected populations targeted by the Action for Migrants: Route Based Assistance (AMiRA) programme in a project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).

As part of the Action of Red Cross on Integration of Relocated and Resettled Persons (ARCI) project, Ground Truth Solutions provided support to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Croatian Red Cross (CRC) and the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC).

Since 2018, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-funded North East Nigeria Transition to Development (NENTAD) programme has provided regional assistance for people affected by crisis including in education, treatment of malnutrition, food, and protection to the populations affected by the ongoing armed conflict in the states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa.

As part of the Mixed Migration Platform (MMP), we surveyed over 4,000 refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers in Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Austria in the course of 2017.

Ground Truth Solutions partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to track and understand the perceptions of people who receive assistance, as well as the larger communities affected by crisis. The collaboration was launched in early 2017 with a focus on the Philippines and Afghanistan.

To meet the strategic commitment of becoming more responsive to clients – people affected by conflict and disaster around the world – the International Rescue Committee (IRC) launched the Client Voice and Choice Initiative (CVC) in April 2015.