Operational Guidance on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)
Overview
The Health Cluster aims to ensure a people centred approach to achieve better health outcomes and improve accountability by placing affected populations at the centre of decision-making and at the centre of action to promote meaningful access, safety and dignity with a desire to meet humanitarian needs, to systematically reduce those needs, and to increase resilience.
This approach ensures awareness of the different needs and capacities of women, girls, boys and men of all ages, people with disabilities, and other diverse characteristics.
This Operational Guidance on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) is designed to assist Health Cluster Coordination Teams in leading, with cluster partners, emergency responses that have strong and robust accountability systems, through which affected populations can increasingly influence the type, delivery and quality of assistance they receive.
Survey report on the use of the Operational Guidance on AAP
Health Clusters have been working towards ensuring AAP through the implementation of the Operational Guidance on AAP. In 2018, a survey was conducted among the Health Clusters to capture and share experiences.
The survey was developed based on the guidance circulated to Health Cluster Coordinators and Co-Coordinators in 24 countries. Questions were largely open-ended allowing for individual inputs.
The summary of the survey illustrates that AAP is being mainstreamed with representatives of the affected populations being involved in ongoing planning and implementation. However, the need to keep working on this subject remains evident.