Guidance: Humanitarian response monitoring

The Transformative Agenda has affirmed that coordination and leadership in the humanitarian system are essential to ensure that populations affected by conflict or disasters are provided with timely, needs-based, life-saving assistance.

Strengthening coordination and leadership calls for commitment through all steps of the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC) to jointly assess the situation; elaborate operational plans to cover prioritised humanitarian needs; mobilise and allocate resources in-line with the priorities; monitor progress; evaluate whether it is having the expected, sufficient effect for the diverse, affected populations; adjust the strategy and plans accordingly; and document how this is being done to support accountability and transparency.