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This is the official website of the Grand Bargain, a unique agreement between some of the largest donors and humanitarian organisations who have committed to get more means into the hands of people in need and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian action.
While the Grand Bargain is a separate and independent process from the IASC, the official website is hosted by the IASC structure, and maintained by the Grand Bargain Secretariat.
Latest from the Grand Bargain
The Grand Bargain in Practice
The Grand Bargain Signatories are implementing their Grand Bargain commitments at country and regional level in the spirit of quid pro quo, which contributes to making humanitarian aid more efficient and effective, and delivers improvements to a system that works for people in need. >> Click here to read examples.
Grand Bargain Cash Workstream Webinar Week - Recordings and materials - July 2020
With the support of the workstream co-leads, the Co-convenors have put together a week of webinars exploring a range of cutting-edge issues in cash programming and policy. More than 10 webinars took place from 20 to 24 July 2020 on a range of topics, including on humanitarian cash and social protection, building local partnerships, lessons learnt, good practices, risk, and others. >> Click here to read the recordings and presentations.
The Grand Bargain Bimonthly updates - July 2020
As we dive into the summer, we are pleased to share with you a number of materials demonstrating a vast progress and body of knowledge in several of the workstreams - including a new prototype to visualise COVID-19 funding, guidance notes on localisation, and several studies showcasing the added value of flexible funding and existing good practices of quality funding that should be replicated. >> Click here to read the newsletter.
Catalogue of quality funding practices to the humanitarian response - July 2020
The Catalogue for Quality Funding Practices to the Humanitarian Response provides evidence and examples of 11 existing funding mechanisms or arrangements identified by donors and recipients as providing ‘quality funding’ for humanitarian response. As outlined during the recent Grand Bargain Annual Meeting, this catalogue provides case studies and examples of best practices in quality funding that are available to be scaled-up and implemented. >> Click here to read the catalogue.
Recent news
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Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework part of the HPC 2021 package - Update from Workstream 5 (September 2020) -
Grand Bargain Cash Workstream Webinar Week - Recordings and materials - July 2020 -
UN Common Cash Statement - September 2020 Update -
Grand Bargain in Practice: Efforts by the Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) in 2019 -
Grand Bargain Annual Meeting 2020 - Summary Note (July 2020)
Quote of the week
“It is evident that the Grand Bargain is having a wider impact in terms of a more cohesive, collaborative approach across the international humanitarian aid sector – a crucial element in helping drive forward reforms of the whole humanitarian system.”
Quote of the week, 6 July 2020, Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2020
The Grand Bargain in a nutshell
As part of the preparations for the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in 2016, the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing sought solutions to close the humanitarian financing gap. Their report made recommendations to shrink the needs, deepen and broaden the resource base for humanitarian action, and to improve delivery. In relation to the latter recommendation, the report suggested “a Grand Bargain between the big donors and humanitarian organisations in humanitarian aid”. The Grand Bargain, launched during the WHS in Istanbul in May 2016, is a unique agreement between some of the largest donors and humanitarian organisations who have committed to get more means into the hands of people in need and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian action. Currently 61 signatories (24 Member States, 21 NGOs, 12 UN agencies, two Red Cross movements, and two inter-governmental organisations) are working across nine workstreams to implement the commitments.
The Grand Bargain Signatories and Structure
The Grand Bargain in Practice
Efforts by the Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) in 2019
The Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2020 demonstrated that the efforts of Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs), UN Country Teams, NGO and donor fora and individual Signatories have resulted in an array of pilots, initiatives and programmes instituted at country and crisis level in 2019 in support of the core commitments and other areas of the Grand Bargain.
Mercy Corps’ holistic localisation benefits affected people in Syria
To engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership and to reinforce rather than replace their capacities, Mercy Corps provided capacity building support to local Syrian NGOs.
Embedding the commitments in Somalia
International and national humanitarian actors in Somalia have sought to embed many of the commitments under the Grand Bargain into their work, including through the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Humanitarian Response Plan, the Somalia NGO Consortium and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund.
UNFPA’s pooled fund reducing the costs of humanitarian response
UNFPA’s Humanitarian Action Thematic Fund (HTF) shows that flexible, predictable and multi-year funding reduces transaction costs, and enables a comprehensive response to people in humanitarian settings.
Click here to see the stories of the Grand Bargain in Practice>>
Examples of Grand Bargain implementation at country level:
Hover and click anywhere on the map to find out examples of the Grand Bargain implementation. Click here to open the map in a new page. This is not an exhaustive list of examples - for further information, please see the Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2020.
Past meetings
The Grand Bargain Secretariat is supported by ECHO and the United Kingdom, and hosted by the Norwegian Refugee Council/NORCAP.