Humanitarian actors often face competing accountabilities that may skew “upwards” in favour of donors. With increasing requirements on humanitarian actors to demonstrate efficiency and impact, accountability has often become depoliticised, reduced to technical frameworks and bureaucratic processes. Within humanitarian work focused on promoting gender equality, the problems in how accountability is framed have particular ramifications, affecting how gender issues are positioned, how gender-related data are presented and the assumptions underlying interventions that seek to address gender inequality. This article is based on ethnographic research in Jordan, specifically interviews with humanitarian practitioners and Syrian refugees. It explores how accountability for gender issues is positioned within the humanitarian sector. The article challenges the fixation on collecting quantitative data on gender-based violence and suggests that humanitarian assumptions about refugee populations may lead to stereotypical and homogenous representations about refugees that fail to recognise complexity. It provides examples of gaps in humanitarian assistance experienced by Syrian refugees in Jordan. The article also suggests that accountability for social transformation and change may be shifting from humanitarian actors towards refugees themselves. The article recommends that approaches to humanitarian accountability should prioritise listening, and being honest about failures and gaps in knowledge.

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倾斜的效忠：重新调整对性别的人道主义责任

人道主义行动者经常面临相互竞争的责任，这些责任可能会“向上”倾斜，有利于捐助者。随着对人道主义行动者展示效率和影响力的要求越来越高，问责制往往变得非政治化，沦为技术框架和官僚程序。在以促进性别平等为重点的人道主义工作中，如何构建问责制的问题具有特殊的影响，影响性别问题的定位、性别相关数据的呈现方式以及旨在解决性别不平等的干预措施的假设。本文基于约旦的民族志研究，特别是对人道主义工作者和叙利亚难民的采访。它探讨了如何在人道主义部门中定位性别问题的问责制。这篇文章对收集有关基于性别的暴力的定量数据的做法提出了质疑，并提出关于难民人口的人道主义假设可能会导致对难民的刻板印象和同质化的表述无法认识到复杂性。它提供了叙利亚难民在约旦经历的人道主义援助缺口的例子。文章还表明，社会转型和变革的责任可能正在从人道主义行动者转向难民本身。文章建议，人道主义问责的方法应优先倾听，并对失败和知识差距诚实。