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The CI Humanitarian MEAL group acts as a reference team to to strengthen CARE’s approach to humanitarian MEAL with the following objectives:

• Identify, prioritise and address areas of weakness in MEAL in CARE’s humanitarian programmes/responses;
• Create a Humanitarian MEAL Reference group and through this undertake a mapping of what exists within the organisation, capture and learn from good practice, and build on existing tools, processes, methods and approaches;
• Produce standard guidelines, templates and tools (including integration with relevant initiatives in the MEL Working Group) and use this to update Chapter 9 of the CARE Emergency Toolkit;
• Emphasise use of technology and other innovative approaches for effective and efficient MEAL;
• Disseminate and roll-out resources developed throughout the organisation, including a focus on capacity building for CO staff and ensuring that roster MEAL experts receive orientation.

Full Terms of Reference:2019-01-08_hummeal_wg_tor.docx

For information, please contact: Uwe Korus, Victoria Palmer or Margaux Saillard

This guidance has been principally authored by a small team(including Moiez Ahmed, Laura Hughston, Uwe Korus, Victoria Palmer, Meagan Patterson and Margaux Saillard) anddraws from practical experiences in establishing and learning form feedback mechanisms in a range of settings and in developing policies and procedures for creating safe and inclusive processes. Throughout the writing of this guidance, the content and approach has benefited from extensive inputs from CARE staff from across the federation. The authors would like to extend our gratitude to the many CARE Country Offices who made their experiences and tools available for this guidance.

This guidance document therefore offers an insight into current good practice in both the development and humanitarian sectors and were informed by a range of global debates and initiatives to foster greater accountability. The HUM MEAL WG will howeverseek to continually improve this guidance and draw more on the practice and learning from CARE teams across the world.

We recognise that attaining excellence in our daily practice of accountability will required more than just this guidance. Sustained commitment, resourcing and honest reflection grounded in our experience and continued innovation will be required. In this spirit we commit to continuing supporting those across the CARE federation devoted to creating, operating and improving FAMs. Queries and requests for support should be directed to: CIFAMSupport@careinternational.org .