Future Humanitarian Financing: Looking Beyond the Crisis

The daunting scale of the humanitarian funding gap and the seemingly intractable nature of the many well documented humanitarian financing challenges provided the backdrop for a series of Future Humanitarian Financing (FHF) dialogues held in 2014. Those who took part in these cross-sectoral events, however, repeatedly stressed as grounds for optimism factors such as economic growth, increasing global connectedness, new technologies, innovation in financing and business practices and emerging global norms around the need to manage risk and build resilience. This report represents an effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Humanitarian Financing Task Team to draw on this spirit of optimism and opportunity to stimulate renewed energy and commitment to resolve longstanding humanitarian financing challenges and to identify new approaches and models of engagement to address the needs of humanitarian crises yet to come.