• Supporting the growth of effective partnerships
• Enhancing and extending the humanitarian knowledge base
• Shaping and improving the environment for learning and professional development in the humanitarian sector
• Strengthening positive innovation in humanitarian practice

Our core programmes

Research and Effective Partnerships

To bring together the research community and the international humanitarian community to create world leading partnerships, which produce research that has measurable impact in the humanitarian field

Humanitarian Innovation Fund

To support organisations and individuals to identify, nurture and share innovative solutions to the challenges facing operational agencies in the delivery of effective humanitarian aid.

Humanitarian Professionalisation

To work with a global network to develop an international professional development passport for the humanitarian sector, in order to recognise and promote the learning and development of individual humanitarian workers around the world.