Community Engagement and Accountability Expert (CEA) P3/P4 NORCAP

The mission

There is a proven demand among policymakers, donors and practitioners for greater accountability and increased commitment towards people’s participation in the humanitarian sector. This is reflected in global commitments, such as the Core Humanitarian Standards and the Grand Bargain 2.0, which identifies the participation of affected communities as a key enabling priority (alongside localization) and outcome pillar (alongside inclusion).

However, within the humanitarian sector there is still a gap between rhetoric and reality and communities are not always engaged in humanitarian action in a systematic or meaningful way. The Grand Bargain Independent Reports (2020 and 2021), the State of the Humanitarian System (2018), Humanitarian Accountability Report (2020) and ODI’s research into collective approaches to accountability, as well as the wealth of data collected from affected people themselves by Ground Truth Solutions, all point to the failure of the humanitarian system to be genuinely driven by the needs of people affected by disaster and crisis. 

NORCAP aims to help address these gaps and support stronger sector-wide accountability to affected people through the deployment of highly skilled CEA experts, into advisory, interagency coordination, and technical capacity support, roles within key humanitarian responses and agencies.