Quality and Accountability
For ACT Alliance, accountability is the acknowledgment, communication and assumption of responsibility for actions, decisions and policies, including administration, governance, implementation and consequences of the implementation of all activities ACT members are involved in.
We believe that is important to uphold a high standard in protecting the rights and dignity of the communities we serve. We see it as part of our duty-of-care.
As a global alliance of over 140 church and church-related organisations working in over 120 countries, ACT has a complex accountability chain within a diverse and independent membership. Some member organisations work primarily through partners and some implement programmes themselves. Within the alliance, ACT members work individually and as part of national and regional ACT forums; some work together through an ACT appeal mechanism in response to a disaster, others plan and implement joint development projects together, while others participate in formal ACT advisory groups or communities of practice.
All ACT members are accountable to their own governance structures and are responsible to the ACT Alliance for meeting the obligations of their ACT membership. ACT members who fund or access funds through the ACT emergency appeal mechanism have additional accountability responsibilities.
All ACT members share the same ethos and values. As an alliance, ACT seek to ensure that the processes for accountability and varying roles and responsibility coexist seamlessly and all accountability systems work as a coherent whole. ACT works to ensure that an effective system for accountability instils a culture of accountability at all levels.
These processes have significantly improved our relationships with the communities we work with.
Humanitarian standards are our Standards
ACT Alliance is certified against CHS to ensure that
Upholds a high standard in protecting the rights and dignity of the
Communities we serve.

MENA mainstreams Quality, Accountability and Safeguarding
