Mayumi Fuchi

Mayumi is a NGO practitioner by profession, with extensive experience and knowledge on NGO accountability and humanitarian response across Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. She has led major emergency response, managed institutional funding for NGOs, and most recently spearheaded the organizational efforts on programme accountability. Prior to this, she worked with UNDP Vietnam on Public Private Partnership and managed health and education programmes across South East Asia whilst based in Thailand. During the course of PhD, she has undertaken consultancy work and played active advisory roles on a wide variety of accountability initiatives. She has led global safeguarding across over 30 country offices and is currently working as Head of Quality and Accountability at an international NGO.

Mayumi holds Master’s Degree in International Development from the University of Birmingham and Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science from Soka University of America. She sits in multiple advisory committees on accountability as well as on prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.  A frequent panellist on the above topics, she has represented NGOs at UK and global platforms such as World Economic Forum, UNHCR, UNOCHA, and BOND

• MSc in International Development: Poverty Reduction & Development Management, University of Birmingham
• BA (Hon.) Liberal Arts: Social and Behavioural Sciences, Soka University of America. Awarded Distinction and Best Researcher of the Year

• NGO accountability
• NGO regulations
• Humanitarian aid and interventions
• International humanitarian standards
• Prevention of exploitation and abuse

• Global Technical Committee on Closing the Accountability Gap in Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in the Aid Sector in collaboration with Government of Netherland
• Panel on Conduct and Resolution Review Committee at high education institute in the United States of America
• UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Independent Reference Group on Tackling Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment
• Qualified Quality Management System Auditor
• Certified CHS Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Investigator
• Member of CHS Alliance Accountability to Affected People Working Group
• Member of Accountable Now Accountability Advisory Group
• Member of the British International Studies Association

• 18th Development Dialogue 2022. Creation of the Core Humanitarian Standard of Quality and Accountability: Trends, Hidden Assumptions and Silences. International Institute of Social Studies.

• The 15th ISTR Conference 2022. NGO Downward Accountability in Preventing Exploitation and Abuse within Aid Sector: Case of the Core Humanitarian Standard of Quality and Accountability. Panel: A multidisciplinary discussion on contemporary challenges in NGO accountability.
• Humanitarian Leadership Conference 2021. An Open Secret in the Aid Sector – NGO Accountability in the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Centre of Humanitarian Leadership, Australia.
• Accountable Now Annual Conference 2020. Feedback & Complaints Mechanism Adaptations. Accountable Now, Switzerland.
• Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week 2020. Towards Grand Bargain Commitment 4: Harmonising Donor Assessments & CHS Verification. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
• CHS Exchange 2020: Accountability to Affected Populations and the Use of Digital Case Management System. CHS Alliance.
• CHS Exchange 2019 Amman. Driver of Change. Finding Collective Solutions to Meet CHS Commitments. CHS Alliance.
• CHS Exchange 2018 London. Harmonisation of Standards. CHS Alliance. 

Articles

Goudsmit, C. & Fuchi, M. (2023). CHS Verification Guide. CHS Alliance. 

Fuchi, M. (2022). Policy Brief. NGO Accountability in the Context of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Case Study on Refugee Camps in Sudan. University of Birmingham.

Fuchi, M. (2022). Challenges in NGO Accountability. Analytically forecasting of the future of the UK Muslim charity sector in the coming years and beyond. The Forum: 4th Edition. The Journal of the British Muslim Charity Sector.

Fuchi, M. (2022). Policy Brief. NGO Downward Accountability in Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse within Aid Sector: Case Study of the Core Humanitarian Standard. University of Birmingham.

Fuchi, M. (2022). NGO Accountability to Affected Populations: The Case of the Core Humanitarian Standard of Quality and Accountability. A multidisciplinary discussion on contemporary challenges in NGO accountability. 15th Annual ISTR Conference Navigating in Turbulent Times: Perspectives and Contributions from the Third Sector.

Blog Posts

Fuchi, M., Ghoryeb, J.A., Paudel, M,, Green, C. & Stevens, D. (2021). CHS Commitments 4 & 5 – adapting feedback and complaints mechanisms: looking beyond the covid-19 pandemic. CHS Alliance.

Fuchi, M., Ghoryeb, J.A., Paudel, M,, Green, C. & Stevens, D. (2021). Adapting feedback and complaints mechanisms: looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. IASC Accountability and Inclusion Resource Hub. ALNAP.

Fuchi, M., Ghoryeb, J.A., Paudel, M,, Green, C. & Stevens, D. (2021). Adapting feedback and complaints mechanisms: looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Accountable Now.