‘They Are Still Not Gone Even Though They Are No Longer Here’: What Community Members and Local Stakeholders Valued in How Organisations Closed Humanitarian Assistance Projects in Six Locales in the Philippines

Initiated in response to crises, humanitarian projects are intended to be limited in duration and closed once the situation stabilises. There has been discussion about humanitarian organisations’ responsibilities and accountability in how projects are closed. How these processes are viewed by individuals living in communities affected by humanitarian crises has received less attention. We conducted a qualitative study to explore perceptions and …