1. Peer Support, Influence and Learning

Vision

SCHR members work with partners to deliver almost $13bn of humanitarian and development aid per year and engage an estimated 132,000 staff and over 13 million volunteers. We use our experience and reach to drive positive change for the whole of the humanitarian ecosystem, including local actors.

The Steering Committee provides a unique, high-trust forum to share information and analysis amongst peers. This safe space enables us to compare analysis, share practical experience and solve problems, enabling us to be propositional, exploring and offering creative and controversial ideas.

We use this pooled experience to build momentum for change in our complex and global confederated and family structures, as well as in the wider humanitarian community and non-humanitarian spaces, to solve the challenges of leading aid organisations and delivering effective, quality assistance in some of the toughest operational environments in the world.

As a standing invitee to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) since its inception in June 1992, SCHR actively engaged in the humanitarian reform initiated in 2005 and then supports the objectives of the subsequent Transformative Agenda, World Humanitarian Summit and Grand Bargain. We continue to actively engage directly and through members in a range of structures and processes to contribute to the effectiveness and accountability of international humanitarian responses.

Work within and between members

  • Maintain strong, high trust personal relationships between key leaders

  • Openly and honestly share leadership experience between member agencies

  • Build strong inter-member and external networks

  • Conduct and share dynamic analysis

  • Represent SCHR at external structures including the IASC Principals, Working Group, EDG, Results Groups and Subsidiary Bodies and the Grand Bargain on a rotating basis to realise economies of scale and reduce the investment needed by individual members.

Work at the SCHR Secretariat

  • Actively engage with and support members to influence the wider humanitarian ecosystem through providing briefings and analysis.

  • Analyse big picture trends and developments in humanitarian action, and the relative and complementary roles of big international organisations on responding to the needs of affected people

  • To apply that analysis to propose solutions that put affected people at the center of decision making

  • We will do this in a way that supports our other Key Work Areas.

Key Forums and External Stakeholders

  • The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

  • OCHA

  • The Good Humanitarian Donorship Alliance (GHD)

  • InterAction, VOICE, the Network for Aid Response (NEAR), the Alliance for empowering Partnership (A4EP), International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA).

  • OECD's Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC)

  • The Grand Bargain