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title: "HQAI - Innovation & IT Advice | Relief Applications"
description: "HQAI, the Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative, engaged us for ongoing innovation and IT advice on its support services and digital tools. We provide…"
url: https://reliefapplications.org/projects/hqai-innovation-and-it-advice/
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-12
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# HQAI - Innovation & IT Advice

HQAI, the Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative, engaged us for ongoing innovation and IT advice on its support services and digital tools. We provide hands-on technical guidance and development capacity to a small certification body.

- **Client**: HQAI
- **When**: Oct 2025–Sep 2026
- **Team**: 2 people
- **Services**: [Training](https://reliefapplications.org/services/training-and-capacity/), [App development](https://reliefapplications.org/services/app-dev-and-maintenance/)
- **Industry**: Humanitarian
- **SDGs**: 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions, 17. Partnerships for the goals
- **Client website**: [hqai.org](https://www.hqai.org/en/)

HQAI, the Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative, provides independent third-party certification against humanitarian quality and accountability standards. It engaged Relief Applications for ongoing innovation and IT advice to modernise its support services and digital tools.

Relief Applications provides hands-on technical guidance and development capacity, helping HQAI improve the systems behind its certification and support work.

The engagement reflects our role as a flexible innovation partner, bringing practical, humanitarian-grounded technology advice to a small, specialised certification body.

## The challenge

- Modernising support-service systems
- Applying new technology pragmatically
- Limited internal IT capacity

## What we did

- On-demand innovation and IT advice
- Hands-on development capacity
- A flexible, humanitarian-grounded partnership

![Innovation & IT Advice, HQAI: screen 1](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p015/01.webp)

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