Getting it right early: Embedding people’s views in response management in Türkiye
Photo: Madevi Sun Suon/UNOCHA
In March 2023, funded by the H2H Network’s H2H Fund and supported by UK aid - from the British people, Ground Truth Solutions launched a project to understand the extent to which the humanitarian response in Türkiye is accountable to people’s needs, priorities, and expectations. This project also aims to uncover how aid can be more responsive to the unfolding needs of the affected population in Türkiye, and how international actors can effectively support and engage with the localised response.
We will be conducting qualitative research with aid recipients and local aid workers, with the support of our local data collection partner. We will speak to a variety of affected people across the affected area in focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to understand the broad range of experiences of the humanitarian response in Türkiye and the specific fallouts for vulnerable groups. We will also speak to aid workers to shine a light on trust dynamics, relationships between local and international responders, and aspects impacting inclusion. Our research will therefore engage with themes of aid relevance, participation, fairness, access to information, empowerment and localisation.
In this project we will also seek to embed perception work in the response processes from an early stage, sensitive actors to the importance of perception work, and design a long-term mixed-methods perceptions tracking approach.
We will facilitate ongoing dialogue sessions with community representatives and local actors throughout the research process, to ensure that we can produce recommendations for improvement that are locally owned and sustainable. We will produce a number of bulletins outlining our findings and setting out concrete recommendations for responders grounded affected people’s perceptions. We will disseminate and discuss our findings through interactive workshops and bilateral discussions with humanitarian responders.
