Peer review – a way for the humanitarian sector to learn and improve

07/04/2015

The launch of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) quality and accountability reference framework raises the question of its implementation. This initiative will bring nothing new to the humanitarian sector if it is unable to encourage a sustainable change in practices within organizations. In other sectors, peer review has shown its ability to stimulate innovation and lead to the emergence of good practice by comparing different approaches. Applied to the humanitarian sector, this alternative to standards has a great deal of potential to begin a process of collective learning and reflection which would benefit all humanitarian organizations, whether small or large, old or new, well-known or unknown, from the global south or the global north.