Ground Truth Solution - Core support Ground Truth Solutions - Kärnstöd Insatsen avser 9 MSEK i kärnstöd under 2022-2024 till Grand Truth Solutions (GTS). GTS verksamhet förutses bidra till att förändra och förbättra det humanitära systemet, vilket är ett målområde i Sidas humanitära strategi. GTS är en NGO som hjälper krisdrabbade människor att påverka utformningen och genomförandet av humanitärt bistånd. GTS frågar människor
via enkäter och kvalitativa metoder om deras biståndsupplevelse, inklusive i vilken
utsträckning humanitära organisationer möter deras behov, om de bemöts med
värdighet och hur biståndet kan förbättras. GTS:s har en organisationsstrategi för åren
2020-2025 med mål att påverka humanitär policy på systemnivå, ledarskap, samt
programgenomförande i fält.

GTS har etablerat partnerskap med en rad lokala och internationella organisationer som är angelägna om att lära och förbättra baserat på feedback från människorna vars behov de eftersträvar att adressera. Dessa organisationer inkluderar FN-organ som UNICEF, UN OCHA,
World Food Program och UNHCR, HCT, Röda Korset och Röda Halvmåne rörelsen, INGO:s som Welthungerhilfe och International Rescue
Committee; samt lokala organisationer som Empowerment Center for Women
i Afghanistan. Sida will provide 9 MSEK in core support during 2022-2024 to Grand Truth Solutions (GTS).

GTS' activities are expected to contribute to changing and improving the humanitarian system, which is a target area in Sida's humanitarian strategy. GTS is an NGO that helps people affected by crisis to influence the design and implementation of humanitarian aid. GTS asks people via surveys and qualitative methods about their aid experience, including which significant humanitarian organizations meet their needs, if they are met with
dignity and how aid can be improved. GTS's has an organizational strategy for the years
2020-2025 with the aim of influencing humanitarian policy at system level, leadership, as well as program implementation in the field.

GTS has established partnership with a range of local and international organizations that are eager to learn and improve based on feedback from the people they serve. These organisations include UN Agencies such as UNICEF, UN OCHA,
World Food Programme and UNHCR, humanitarian country teams, the Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement, INGOs such as Welthungerhilfe and the International Rescue
Committee; as well as local organisations such as the Empowerment Centre for Women
in Afghanistan. Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) was established in 2012 to help people affected by
crisis influence the design and implementation of humanitarian aid. GTS has an office in
Vienna, Austria and GTS consultants are field-based individuals. GTS vision is as
follows:
"We envision a humanitarian system that recognises the agency of the people it exists to
serve, and is responsive to their views, preferences, and needs. Our goal is to make the
perceptions of affected people the touchstone and driver of humanitarian effectiveness.
To achieve this, we champion their views at the global level and wherever decisions
about aid are made".
GTS aims at research and teaching in the field of humanitarian aid, development aid
and disaster relief. The aim of the research is to gain new insights into the actual effectiveness and quality of aid in order to improve the international aid system in the
long term.
So far, GTS has established partnership with a range of local and international
organizations that are eager to learn and improve based on feedback from the people
they serve. These organisations include UN Agencies such as UNICEF, UN OCHA,
World Food Programme and UNHCR, humanitarian country teams, the Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement, INGOs such as Welthungerhilfe and the International Rescue
Committee; as well as local organisations such as the Empowerment Centre for Women
in Afghanistan.
The overall objectives of GTS is to help affected people influence aid provision. To do
this, GTS has the strategic expected outcomes as per its 20202025 Strategy:
Level 1: Global governance outcomes: Global humanitarian policy incentivises peoplecentred programme design and implementation, placing the perspective of affected
people at the centre of humanitarian action.
Level 2: Response leadership outcomes: Planning, funding, management,
implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian responses at the country level are
strongly influenced by, and adapted to, the perspectives and priorities of affected people.
Level 3: Field implementation: Local and international humanitarian actors manage
their performance using feedback and insight from affected people while enabling their
target groups to express their views through ongoing dialogue.
As per the application logframe, which is structured as per area, outcomes and desired
results of GTS, where the latter has four main results:
1. Supporting response leadership to improve accountability (Strategy levels: Response
leadership and field implementation): Response leaders begin to demonstrate more
responsive programming, informed by community input and targeted advocacy.
Systematically collected and analysed data on community priorities, and subsequent
recommendations with a broader range of interlocutors, inform more integrated
programming toward longer term solutions for crisis-affected people.
2. Advocacy and policy (Strategy levels: Response leadership and Global): Policymakers
use community feedback and GTS analysis to make better decisions. There is more
pressure on response leaders to demonstrate improved accountability beyond checking
boxes.
3. New programmes (including climate change adaptation): The case is proven that
systematic tracking and use of feedback can make nexus, livelihoods and climate change
adaptation programmes more effective.
4. Organisational development: The GTS global team is built on strong foundations,
with support services in place to accommodate further growth, agility to scale up and
down as needed and influence a broader range of actors.