Shared Standards of Humanitarian Response: Team Development Through Partnerships
The year 2025 became a year of systematic team development for the NGO “Responsible Citizens.” We purposefully strengthened our expertise by building a comprehensive learning culture aligned with the challenges of humanitarian work in a context of war. The organization’s team took part in 107 activities, 105 of which were learning and training events conducted in both online and offline formats.
The key areas of team training included:
- financial management, budgeting, and internal control for NGOs;
- cash and voucher assistance, registration, verification, and data deduplication;
- MEAL, accountability, and data management;
- protection, PSEA, and safeguarding, including psychological first aid;
- child protection, MHPSS, and psychosocial support for families from frontline areas;
- leadership and community engagement.
These areas of learning reflect the leading trends of the humanitarian sector in 2025: the development of professionally managed, accountable, and people-centered programmes, where management decisions, ethical standards, and the quality of processes shape real impact for people and communities.
Our development became possible thanks to partnerships with leading organizations and learning platforms, including UNICEF Ukraine, Mercy Corps Ukraine, Acted, Save the Children in Ukraine, Compass Group Capacity Building Academy, the Ukrainian Network for Children’s Rights, the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and others. It is this type of cooperation that helps shape shared standards of humanitarian response in Ukraine.
“A strong organization begins with a strong team. When we invest in people’s knowledge, ethics, and management decisions, we invest in community trust and in the long-term impact of our work,” says Olha Kosse, Chair of the Board of the NGO “Responsible Citizens.”
We continue to build an organization where learning is a strategic necessity, because only a competent team can ensure responsible, high-quality, and dignified assistance to people who need it.
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Child-Centered career guidance: new approaches by “Responsible Citizens”The NGO "Responsible Citizens" participated in the annual scientific and educational event "Science Unites," held at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University on the initiative of the Municipal Institution "Center for Professional Development of Pedagogical Workers" of the Kryvyi Rih City Council.
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New Partnership to Strengthen Family Support in Kharkiv Region“Responsible Citizens” NGO launches a new phase of activity within the framework of systemic family support. We are joining efforts with the “Unity for the Future” Charitable Foundation, with financial support from UHF (Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine), to implement the project “Comprehensive Multisectoral Assistance for Vulnerable Families in Kharkiv Region.”
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Team-Based Care: How Professionals Learn to See a Child’s NeedsA training session titled “Team-Based Care in Assessing a Child’s Needs” was held in Zaporizhzhia, organized by the NGO Responsible Citizens within the UNICEF Ukraine project.