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ACT Alliance

ACT Alliance is a network of more than 130 organisations working together for positive, sustainable change in the lives of people affected by poverty and injustice through coordinated and effective humanitarian, development and advocacy initiatives.

http://www.actalliance.org

The Sphere Project

The Sphere Project is a voluntary initiative that brings a wide range of humanitarian agencies together around a common aim – to improve the quality of humanitarian assistance and the accountability of humanitarian actors to their constituents, donors and affected populations.

http://www.sphereproject.org

The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS)

In 2013,The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project, came together under the Joint Standards Initiative (JSI) with the common goal of making it simpler and easier for aid workers to implement standards.

The members of the CHS Alliance - over 240 national and international organisations working in more than 160 countries - commit to adopting, using and monitoring the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), with the objective of making humanitarian action more appropriate, effective, and responsive to the needs of people and communities affected by crises.The LWF World Service is the member of CHS Alliances.

https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/

APRODEV

Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organizations in Europe The relation between development and religion has become a hot issue during the past ten years or so. For a long time, not much attention was given to the topic as some in the secularising ‘West’ predicted that the role of religion in society would fade away, while it was a non-issue in the South where no separation is made between development and religion which permeates all realms of life.

http://www.aprodev.eu

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is an international network of churches and church-related organizations committed to campaigning together on common concerns. Current campaigns focus on HIV and AIDS and Food. Our advocacy includes raising awareness and building a movement for justice within the churches as well as mobilizing people of faith to lobby local and national governments,

http://www.e-alliance.ch/

World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity. The WCC brings together 349 churches, denominations and church fellowships in more than 110 countries and territories throughout the world,

http://www.oikoumene.org

Inter-Agency Standing Committee

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) is the primary mechanism for inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance. It is a unique forum involving the key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners. The IASC was established in June 1992 in response» to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/182 on the strengthening of humanitarian assistance.

http://www.humanitarianinfo.org

AZEECON

The LWF/DWS Asia program have a long history of informal co-operation. AZEECON was formed in December 1997 in order to expand and strengthen regional co-operation to support grassroots-work in-country in emergency preparedness and management, and related environmental issues as all the member countries have common vulnerability to natural disasters. They have similar experiences in emergency, environmental work and disaster preparedness but low level of exchange and interaction concerning the issue AZEECON was realized and materialised. It aims at strengthening capacity, performance, quality and effectiveness of its partners. Besides promoting integration of development and emergency components of programmes it also promotes practical co-operation and co-ordination amongst regional partners.

http://azeecon-lwf.org