Accountability to Affected People Working Group
The Afghanistan Accountability to Affected People Working Group (AAP WG) replaces the former Community Engagement Working Group and reflects the commitment by the Humanitarian Country Team, the Inter-Cluster coordination Team, UN agencies and NGO partners to put crisis-affected people at the centre of programme decision-making. The Working Group's key functions include training humanitarian responders and others on collective AAP and coordinating shared resources and creating tools for collective AAP. Working Group co-leads are ACBAR, BBC Media Action and UNHCR. The AAP WG and its three sub-working groups support accountability practices, policies and activities that turn national and global commitments into local action that engages even the most marginalised of communities in Afghanistan. The three sub-working groups are:
- Communications with Communities, which focuses on participatory information provision (BBC Media Action and FAO co-leads)
- Risk Communication and Community Engagement (COVID-19 and other outbreak diseases), which collaborates with the Ministry of Public Health to promote health-seeking actions through respectfully listening to people's concerns, fears and questions about health risks and returning accurate, relevant and standardised information throughout the country (WHO and NRC co-leads)
- Feedback and Response Mechanism, which supports collective feedback-response systems and processes (DRC and UN Women co-leads)
The AAP Working Group strives to have national NGOs and crisis-affected community members be active and equal partners in accountability activities. WG meetings generally are the second Monday of every month from 2-4 p.m., Kabul time and ad hoc as needed. Sub-Working Group meetings are called as needed.
(The photo at the top is of an OCHA-FAO Focus Group Discussion with especially marginalized women, including widows and single mothers, held in Herat Province.)
Community Voices
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 07 (April 2022 feedback)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 06 (February and March 2022 feedback)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 05 (January 2022 feedback)
- Afghanistan: Community Perceptions Survey #1 (December 2021)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 04 (December 2021 feedback)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 03 (November 2021)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 02 (October 2021)
- Afghanistan: Collective Feedback Digest - Issue 01 (September 2021)
Communication for communities [Dari/Pashto/EN]
- Afghanistan: Community messages and Frequently Asked Questions on WFP assistance in Afghanistan [Dari/Pashto/Eng]
- Afghanistan: Guidance note: using the drought messages [Eng]
- Afghanistan RCCE: Acute Watery Diarrhea flipchart [Dari/Pashto]
- Afghanistan: Drought and general messages per cluster [Dari/Pashto/Eng]
RCCE Sub-Working Group Communication for Communities [Dari/Pashtu/En]
- RCCE: Cards for health protection during Ramadan [Dari/Pashto]
- COVID-19 RCCE: Corona Vaccine Discussion Guide - General Concerns
- COVID-19 RCCE: Corona Vaccine Discussion Guide - Fears
- COVID-19 RCCE: Corona Vaccine Discussion Guide - Side Effects
- COVID-19 RCCE: Corona Vaccine Discussion Guide - how to conduct “active listening” conversations
- Afghanistan RCCE: Winter health messages for communities [Dari/Eng/Pashto]
Featured Resources
4W Survey Findings - December 2021
Featured Infographics
Afghanistan Reports
- Asia Foundation: Afghanistan Flash Surveys on the Perceptions of Peace, COVID-19, and the Economy - Wave 2 Findings (March 2021)
- Asia Foundation: Afghanistan Flash Surveys on the Perceptions of Peace, COVID-19, and the Economy - Wave 1 Findings (December 2020)
- Afghanistan: Whole of Afghanistan Assessment - Province Factsheet Booklet (September 2020)
- REACH-RCCE Communities' Information Access, Preferences, Needs and Access (May 2020)
- Afghanistan: Whole of Afghanistan Assessment (WoAA) - Province-level Displaced Populations Factsheet Booklet (September 2019)
- Afghanistan: Whole of Afghanistan Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (September 2019)
- Mapping of Community Engagement Activities (as of 2018)
- Whole of Afghanistan Assessment - AAP Key Findings (as of 2018)
- CEWG - Key Informant Survey (as of 2018)
- Mapping of Community Engagement Activities (as of 2018)
- A Survey of the Afghan People (November 2019)
Global Accountability and Community Engagement Resources
- The Grand Bargain commitments on local leadership and action, capacity strengthening, and the Participation Revolution
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee Commitments on Inclusion and Accountability and Accountability to Affected People and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
- Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability
- Rumour has it: A practice guide to working with rumours
- OCHA On Message: Community Engagement
- Closing the Loop: Effective feedback in humanitarian contexts 2014
- Engaging with People Affected by Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence 2018
- IASC Best Practice Guide Inter-Agency Community-Based Complaints Mechanisms 2016
- Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid
- Mainstreaming Accountability to Affected Populations and Core People-Related Issues in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle
- IFRC Community Engagement and Accountability