As a sub-national cluster supported by the Palestine Shelter Cluster, the Gaza Shelter Cluster Team works with everyone involved in providing shelter and basic household items.
These are important obligations that communities can use to hold aid actors accountable. From website: The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability sets out Nine Commitments that organisations and individuals involved in humanitarian response can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide.
This summary of a survey about international actors in Palestine concludes significant, widespread and costly movement and access challenges the INGO's are facing as they deliver aid to Palestinians. By: Association of International Development Agencies. (www.aidajerusalem.org).
2011. 13 pages. English only.
A voluntary Code of Conduct that "seeks to maintain the high standards of independence, effectiveness and impact to which disaster response NGOs and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement aspires.
The International Non-Govermental Organization Accountability Charter reflects a consensus among 23 INGO charter members on principles and standards to promote transparency, accountability and effectiveness. Self-assessment reports are available on the website. By: INGO Accountability Charter (http://www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org/). 2005. 6 pages. English only.
