The HDPT CAR

Humanitarian and development assistance are often done separately, yet, bringing together all humanitarian and development partners is crucial in the case of the Central African Republic as one of the drivers of the humanitarian crisis is more than 20 years of under-development. The Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team (HDPT) unites all organizations working to alleviate the humanitarian and development crisis in the Central African Republic: United Nations agencies, the Red Cross Movement, NGOs and other organizations.

These organizations collaborate on humanitarian and development strategies and work together when implementing projects. Go to our Organisations page for a list of organisations working in the country. For more info on the current crisis in CAR go to the Overview page.

This website and our intranet

This website was set up to explain the humanitarian and development crisis in CAR to a wide audience. Many non-professionals have hardly heard about the Central African Republic before, which is why this site focusses on accessible maps, photos, and multimedia.

If you are a humanitarian and development professional and require more in-depth and technical info on the country and organizations working here, please use our intranet. There you’ll find all the contacts, reports, maps, data, tools and forms you need. Getting an account for the intranet is very very easy, check our intranet page.

More info and contact

If you would like to know more about the country, organizations or you are looking for a particular contact, please write to info[at]hdptcar.net. We will forward your request to the right person.

You can find the key contacts for organizations working in CAR on our Organisations page. Hundreds of other contacts are on the intranet.

For acronym insiders: IASC Country Team, HCPT, HDPT, :-S ?

If you are a humanitarian professional and wonder whether there exists an IASC Country Team in CAR, then the answer is: the HDPT is the IASC Country Team – the United Nations Country Team, the Red Cross Movement and NGOs working together.

We have not adopted the new acronym HCPT (Humanitarian Community Partnership Team) for what used to be IASC Country Teams.

Unlike in other contexts, we are integrating humanitarian and development work to improve collaboration and our assistance to the population of the Central African Republic. Therefore: Humanitarian and Development Partnership Team – HDPT CAR.

More info on humanitarian and development collaboration

• For the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the inter-agency forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making involving the key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners, click here.
• For the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), set-up by the Secretary General to improve the effectiveness of the UN’s development efforts at the country level, click here.
• For the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, click here.
• For global NGOs networks, check the sites of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), the American Council for Voluntary International Action (InterAction), or the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR).