Quality Group
The Quality Group was established to take forward the work begun with the Bond-commissioned report, A Bond Approach to Quality Standards: putting beneficiaries first.
The research emphasised that, for appropriate and sustainable fieldwork, relationships with beneficiaries have to come first, ahead of other priorities.
The group helps NGOs put this conclusion into practice and also to apply wider approaches to managing quality. We do not aim to develop any single 'one size fits all' solution. We collaborate with related initiatives and take an open, mutually supportive approach to our work: piloting practical ways of managing quality.
The group now uses a wiki for the majority of its communications and information sharing: Bond Quality Group Wiki.
If you are a member of Bond you can register to join the Quality Group.
Structure and governance
Steering committee:
Chair: Alex Jacobs, Keystone Accountability
Nicola Chevis, VSO
Atallah Fitzgibbon, Islamic Relief
Daniel Jones, Christian Aid
Anna Hakobyan, Y Care International
Rob Lloyd, One World Trust
Mary Ann Mhina, AbleChildAfrica
Taitos Matafeni, Sightsavers International
Ivan Kent, CAFOD
Representatives from Bond member organisations are very welcome to join the steering committee upon the agreement of the existing committee members.
If you would like to know more about the quality group from the perspective of existing group members you can read this evaluation of the work of the group.
