The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) secretariat is committed to engaging people in crisis-affected communities in discussions on how to make humanitarian aid more effective leading up to and at the WHS in May 2016.

This guidance is intended to provide recommendations for implementing key components of the WHS Community Engagement Strategy. It was developed in 2015 for the WHS by Dayna Brown, who directed the Listening Program at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, and Imogen Wall, who led UNOCHA’s work on Communication with Communities.