News
Welcome to News at HQAI! Here you can dive into a collection of stories from audited, strategic and financial partners, from auditors and people affected by crisis who share their experience of working with us. We appreciate the insight of others on our work as independent auditor in the humanitarian and development sector.
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LOCAL New Project
DRC, in collaboration with HQAI, ICVA, and SPONG, announces the launch of the project named LOCAL: LOwering CompliAnce burdens for Local and national associations.
Intermediary Impact Study Report
The promising results are out: Measuring CHS commitments leads to stronger accountability and improved quality.
Annual Report 2023 Out
Our 2023 annual report is now available. Discover more about HQAI’s work, partners, and lessons learned.
News posts
Certification was a unique learning experience
October 2019
Nalan Üker talks about IBC's experience, challenges and benefits of their certification journey!
Certification was an eye-opening experience for EFICOR
January 2020
EFICOR's certification journey.
HQAI is accredited
December 2018
HQAI received accreditation against ISO/IEC 17065:2012 in 2018. Accreditation is the “certification of the certifying body”.
UNICEF first UN agency to benchmark against the CHS
January 2020
To celebrate UNICEF’s trailblazing CHS benchmarking, we interview Charles-Antoine Hofmann.
ActionAid First Group to achieve Independent Verification
August 2019
We feel privileged to hear from staff from across 16 members of the ActionAid Federation to find out how the Group verification process went.
Our annual report 2019!
April 2020
A lot has changed over the last weeks but some (small) things still remain the same: April is the month of publication of our annual report.
Will ECHO accept HQAI as a suitable audit organisation for FPAs?
April 2020
ECHO invites statutory ex-ante auditors to take into account the results of HQAI audits. We have strong arguments to go one step further.
It's pronounced.... HQAI!
June 2019
Learn what auditors, donors and HQAI secretariat staff say about HQAI's services. And by the way, it is pronounced [eitẛkai].
Hello Madam President
June 2020
Kate Halff takes over the Presidency of HQAI’s Board of Directors after five years of outstanding leadership under Professor Jacques Forster.
Checks and balances – ZOA’s certified commitment
May 2020
As the first Dutch NGO to achieve certification against the CHS, we couldn’t wait to hear ZOA’s thoughts on the process.