OCHA and the IASC are expected to produce a consolidated appeal document once a year for major crises: stakeholders need an organized snapshot and analysis. But the appeal is ineffective if the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) treats it as a one-off document-writing exercise – and the humanitarian response is likely to be ineffective too. The Consolidated Appeal Process comprises the whole programme cycle of humanitarian action: needs assessment and analysis, joint planning and strategizing, resource mobilization and allocation, and monitoring and evaluation. The annual document publication is a milestone to focus the analyses and decisions that these four elements entail, and it presents a frame of reference for monitoring the success of humanitarian action on a collective crisis-wide level. These guidelines therefore contain a document template (in Part III), but they start with guidance on the substance that constitutes that appeal process and must go into an appeal document. The processes and analyses that produce the substance must start far in advance of the CAP document due date.
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