The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) is a partnership of humanitarian and development organisations dedicated to ensuring greater accountability to people affected by crisis through the promotion of a Standard on Quality and Accountability. The aim of HAP Standard is to help organisations “that assist or act on behalf of people affected by or prone to disasters, conflict, poverty or other crises to design, implement, assess, improve and recognise accountable programmes. It describes how to establish a commitment to accountability and the processes that will deliver quality programmes for the people who experience them first hand.”“The HAP Standard can apply to all types of local, national and international organisations that assist or act on behalf of people affected by or prone to disasters, conflict, poverty or other crises, including HAP members and non-members, multi-mandate organisations, and organisations that deliver direct assistance and those that work with partners.”