This is the offical 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. 

The Grand Bargain Bimonthly updates - July 2019: These updates highlight recent achievements and initiatives by the Signatories and Workstreams, including specific updates from cash, localisation, quality funding and multi-year planning and joint needs assessments workstreams. Click here to read the newsletter.

The Grand Bargain Annual Meeting 2019: The Grand Bargain signatories gathered at the Annual Meeting in Geneva on 27 June 2019 to agree on how to scale-up progress and decide how to address challenges in order to maximize our collective impact for people affected by crises and disasters. Click here to read more. 

The Grand Bargain signatories provided optional written statements on the ocassion of the Annual Meeting in June 2019. Click here to read them. 

The Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2019: The present report is the third annual independent review of the collective progress made by the signatories to the Grand Bargain against their commitments. Click here to read more. 

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 above infographics provides general information on the Grand Bargain, based on the 2017 and 2018 Grand Bargain Annual Reports. Hoover and click to find out more.

 The Grand Bargain progress 2018. 

 About the Grand Bargain - visual 1-pager, July 2019.

The presentation provides information on the various governance structures of the Grand Bargain. After starting the presentation click on the arrows to navigate different sections.

Hoover and click anywhere on the map to find out examples of the Grand Bargain implementation.