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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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Beyond Verification: Embracing Certification

Insights of Dutch Relief Alliance, Help a Child, and Tearfund Netherlands.

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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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Stronger CHS Out Soon

A stronger Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) driven by crisis-affected people and communities will be officially launched in March 2024.

News posts

Training of auditors
Auditor Training

November 2021
A new auditor training session will take place in April 2022. Registrations are open until February 28, 2022

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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.

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ECOSOC

October 2021
HQAI obtains special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

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Job opening

September 2021
Job opening at HQAI Secretariat - Executive Director (100%) I Geneva

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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."

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Accreditation

July 2021

HQAI's CHS certification scheme continues to conform with ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Accreditation is the “certification of the certifying body”.

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H2H in action: HQAI profile

May 2021
HQAI featured in the H2H network. Read the interview with Désirée Walter.

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About the urgency not to reinvent the wheel

April 2021
Independent mechanisms to measure accountability already exist.

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Annual report 2020

April 2021
It is time to look back at 2020 - HQAI's annual report is ready.

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Towards harmonisation

April 2021
The CHS audit helped Act Church of Sweden meet the requirements for ECHO funding.

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Towards improvement: discover the audit journey with HQAI

April 2021

Towards improvement: discover the audit journey with HQAI.

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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.