Accountability to Affected People and Community Engagement (AAP-CE) Working Group
The Pakistan Accountability to Affected People and Community Engagement (AAP-CE) Working Group was established under the auspices of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in September 2022. The aim of the AAP-CE WG is to support collective approaches for engagement with affected people, communities, and local actors to ensure a more principled, effective, and accountable humanitarian response to the monsoon floods. The AAP-CE Working Group is guided by the 2022 Pakistan Floods Response Plan which includes AAP as a priority area of focus. In 2023, the AAP-CE Working Group is co-chaired by ACTED and IFRC, with secretariat support provided by OCHA. The AAP-CE Working Group meets on a monthly basis. The AAP-CE Working Group engages closely with organisational and response decision-makers and other relevant coordination structures such as the HCT, Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), sectors, working groups, and PSEA Network.
Co-Chairs: Ali Hassan, Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at ACTED. Email: ali.hassan@acted.org and Arooj Fatima, Community Engagement and Accountability Officer at IFRC. Email: arooj.fatima@ifrc.org
Secretariat: Emma Cliffe, AAP Senior Specialist at OCHA. Email: emma.cliffe@un.org
National and international actors involved: The AAP-CE Working Group is currently comprised of more than 85 participating member organisations working in Pakistan, including national and local NGOs, international NGOs, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, and UN agencies. The AAP-CE Working Group encourages participation from any organisations responding to the monsoon floods in Pakistan. Interested organisations can request membership by sending a message to Emma Cliffe, AAP Senior Specialist at OCHA: emma.cliffe@un.org with contact details of a nominated primary representative and alternate focal point.