The last decade has seen a massive increase in doctrinal work on the issue of accountability of humanitarian actors to affected populations, coming from the IASC, the workstreams of the Grand Bargain, or individual humanitarian agencies. Pressure from donors continues to increase, and important progress is also registered in some operations. Yet, as signalled by a recent report by the Humanitarian Policy Group, “these efforts are all important, but they fall far short of a system-wide shift to ensuring that humanitarian responses are more demand-driven”[1].
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