CHS Alliance Response to Emergency Relief Coordinator’s Proposal on Independent Commission for Voices in Crisis (ICVIC)

CHS Alliance welcomes the Emergency Relief Coordinator’s call for the humanitarian sector to be more accountable to people affected by crisis, while urging that his proposal reinforces existing accountability initiatives which put the voices of affected people at the core of a humanitarian response.

Tanya Wood, Executive Director of the CHS Alliance, responded to Mark Lowcock’s announcement today of a proposed Independent Commission for Voices in Crisis, saying:

“From our roots in the exploration of a Humanitarian Ombudsman in the mid 1990s, we have known that the humanitarian system needs to get far better at listening to people in crises. This is a moral imperative for humanitarian response.