AAP Guidance: A programmatic necessity: InteGuidance: Accountability to Affected People (AAP) for organisations implementing Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund projects

The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) says: “Partners that implement activities funded by the AHF are required to address the five Commitments to Accountability to Affected Populations (CAAP) of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Those requirements fall under: • Leadership/governance; • Transparency; • Feedback/Complaints; • Participation; • Design Monitoring and Evaluation. “At the project proposal stage, implementing partners are required to describe how affected populations and specific beneficiaries have been and will be involved throughout the humanitarian project cycle. AHF reporting and monitoring procedures verify how this has been applied.” This document provides suggestions for how partners in Afghanistan can fulfil AHF requirements and, more substantively, insert meaningful Accountability to Affected People (AAP) principles, policies and practices into project proposals and projects themselves. This guidance also can be used generally as a short manual on how to engage people in Afghanistan in all phases of humanitarian projects, so accountability becomes a natural and inseparable part of programming