Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024

HERE-Geneva turns ten years old in late 2024. In this first important decade, HERE has found its role and voice, reviewing humanitarian responses, and sharing lessons that need to be learned with a specific, and interested, audience. Following two consecutive institutional strategies, we now have a consistent agenda and stable volume of work and have become known for our reviews on coordination, humanitarian principles, and accountability. The 2019-2021 three-year strategy cycle was an opportunity to establish HERE more solidly, following the start-up phase. HERE’s most recent strategy (2022-2024) has been extended through 2025 and has seen HERE work along three strategic orientations: contributing to the respect for, and protection of, principled humanitarian action; providing analysis that advocates for meaningful systemic change; and consolidating HERE’s achievements.

While anecdotal evidence suggests that our work, and particularly the quality of it, has been recognised by key audiences, we lack an independent overview of how well we are addressing our mandate to close the gap between policy and humanitarian practice. Input from external stakeholders has been sought in elaborating our previous institutional strategies, but HERE has not been the subject of an external review of how it can best achieve its ambitions. HERE’s Board is therefore commissioning a ‘light’ independent review of our work.

The purpose of the review is to provide learning and insight on how HERE can best work to achieve its mission in the coming decade.