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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.

Scroll through our News collection, search for specific key words or dive into one of the stories below.

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Happy reading!

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HQAI Strategy 2024 - 2029 is Out!

HQAI's new strategy to enhance accountability and quality in the humanitarian and development ecosystem.

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Intermediary Impact Study Report

The promising results are out: Measuring CHS commitments leads to stronger accountability and improved quality.

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Annual Report 2023 Out

Our 2023 annual report is now available. Discover more about HQAI’s work, partners, and lessons learned.

News posts

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Birgit Spiewok's experience as an auditor

October 2019

An auditor's testimonial.

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Claire Goudsmit's experience as an auditor

August 2018

An auditor's testimonial.

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Auditor training 2020

July 2020

Read more about what it takes - and what it means - to join our team of auditors.

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Localisation

September 2020

What is HQAI's potential to support the localisation agenda?

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We are here for good reasons

December 2019

We are proud to publish a document that explains how we got from the JEEAR to here.

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Harmonising donor assessments & CHS Verification

February 2020

The CHS Alliance and HQAI held an interactive discussion at HNPW on how CHS verification can cover a substantial amount of donor due diligence.

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Certification was a unique learning experience

October 2019

Nalan Üker talks about IBC's experience, challenges and benefits of their certification journey!

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Certification was an eye-opening experience for EFICOR

January 2020

EFICOR's certification journey.

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HQAI is accredited

December 2018

HQAI received accreditation against ISO/IEC 17065:2012 in 2018. Accreditation is the “certification of the certifying body”.

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UNICEF first UN agency to benchmark against the CHS

January 2020

To celebrate UNICEF’s trailblazing CHS benchmarking, we interview Charles-Antoine Hofmann.

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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.

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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.