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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Preliminary results Impact Study
Our work has a demonstrated positive impact on organisations's accountability.
Interview by International Geneva
Our Executive Director, Désirée Walter, was recently interviewed by International Geneva about our work.
BFD’s Certification Journey
We interviewed Abdullah Al Kaff, Partnership Officer at Building Foundation for Development in Yemen, on their CHS certification journey.
News posts
Auditor Training
November 2021
A new auditor training session will take place in April 2022. Registrations are open until February 28, 2022
North-South Cooperation analysed by Professor J.Forster
November 2021
HQAI is proud to announce the publication of Founding Member and former President Professor J.Forster's books on the topic of North-South cooperation.
ECOSOC
October 2021
HQAI obtains special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Job opening
September 2021
Job opening at HQAI Secretariat - Executive Director (100%) I Geneva
ADRA Denmark's CHS Independent Verification & bridge to Certification
July 2021
"Creating genuine opportunities to communicate, complain or comment is important. The feedback opportunity is widely used in many contexts and the fact that the communities talk to us is a very positive sign."
Accreditation
July 2021
HQAI's CHS certification scheme continues to conform with ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Accreditation is the “certification of the certifying body”.
H2H in action: HQAI profile
May 2021
HQAI featured in the H2H network. Read the interview with Désirée Walter.
About the urgency not to reinvent the wheel
April 2021
Independent mechanisms to measure accountability already exist.
Annual report 2020
April 2021
It is time to look back at 2020 - HQAI's annual report is ready.
Towards harmonisation
April 2021
The CHS audit helped Act Church of Sweden meet the requirements for ECHO funding.
Towards improvement: discover the audit journey with HQAI
April 2021
Towards improvement: discover the audit journey with HQAI.
Takaful Alsham's CHS certification journey
March 2021
"Since the audit, we pay more attention to how we share information and set-up complaint channels," says Mohammed Ezeldeen, Takaful Alsham.