Design with people
Use community priorities and assessed needs to shape delivery choices and the changes the response should support.
Design and standardsHumanitarian / Knowledge & practice
Focus on what matters.
The people you serve.
Project design, funding and practical tools to help humanitarian teams listen, respond to people’s priorities and stay accountable to the communities they work with.
Source-linked guidance · Free planning tools · Published by Salient One
The reference desk
Useful at each stage.
Use people’s priorities to guide the response, the resources it needs and how it will be reviewed.
Resource the response
Find funding and partnership routes that fit the response people need and the capacity to deliver it.
Search the directoryPlan for accountability
Review responsibilities, safeguards and resources, including how people can give feedback and influence delivery.
Use the readiness checklistPractical guides
From people’s priorities to practical action.
Practical guides for making choices, finding support and planning a response that can be delivered.
Design a response with people affected by crisis
Work with communities to turn their priorities, assessed needs and capacities into an accountable humanitarian response.
Read the guideAssess donor fit before investing in a proposal
Compare funding routes against eligibility, strategic priorities and delivery capacity.
Read the guidePrepare a proposal that can be delivered and audited
Build a coherent proposal and verify its evidence, budget and submission requirements.
Read the guideConnected to S1
Add context to the project decision.
Continue in Salient One’s evidence tools. Source dates and limitations stay with the results.
Sanctions screening
Open S1 to screen a person or organisation and review candidate records against the underlying sources.
Open screeningCountry risk scorecards
Inspect published country profiles, indicator dates, source coverage and the basis for the rating.
Explore country profilesScreening signals require identity review. Country indicators support contextual analysis; they do not assess an individual project.
Transparent sources
Know what the reference can tell you.
The directory links to official resources. It is a curated starting point; current call documents determine eligibility and deadlines.