The RAFT (Respect, Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency) applies not just to individual behavior. It applies to organizational behavior as well. Policies blindly followed, rules that appear capricious or mean, or the simple lack of time and attention afforded to people can all wreck the RAFT for organizations.
Policy
Policy is the organizational documentation that influences, directs, and constrains conduct.
An over-emphasis at the policy-level on the quantity, quality or timing of resource deliveries can obscure, distort, and undervalue an intervention’s actual impacts, limiting the ability of field-based staff to make better decisions and arrangements.
Over-specification of the identities of recipients through policies or operational arrangements limit the ability of field staff to carry out interventions that do not reinforce inter-group divisions.
An over-simplification of conflict in funding and fund-raising can cheapen suffering and criminality. Maintaining clarity about authentic innocent suffering and genuine war crimes and interpreting these to the broader world is a responsibility of donors and agencies that intervene in conflict areas.
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