Tracking community perceptions for a more people-centred aid response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Since 2022, we have been supporting the humanitarian response by tracking perceptions of aid recipients, and sharing their recommendations with humanitarian actors for action planning and influencing change.
In October 2022 and July 2023, we spoke with over 1,100 people who received humanitarian aid on each occasion across the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. We spoke to internally displaced people living in and outside of camps, returnees, and people in host communities to find out what they think about how humanitarian aid is implemented, and to what extent it works for them. We workshopped findings with aid actors to integrate community’s perceptions in the humanitarian response plan and in the collective accountability to affected people action plan.
Qualitative follow-up in February 2023 and December 2023 consisted of focus group discussions held in selected communities in the three provinces, to further unpack key findings on participation, fairness, protection, and aid dependency, and listen to people’s recommendations.
This project was made possible thanks to our collaboration with Unicef and with funding from BHA - USAID.