Humanitarian Finance Data System: Stocktake & Collective thinking on improvements
Humanitarian Finance Data Systems: Stocktake & Collective thinking on improvements
19 January 2023, 3-5pm CET
The event is open to all, grounded in practical application and involves several speakers including from IATI, OCHA FTS, The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Please, find attached the calendar invite and the link to register for the event.
Aim
The aim of the event is to:
- Take stock of existing humanitarian data tracking system
- Increase knowledge and understanding of various humanitarian data tracking systems across the sector
- Increase awareness of those contributing and managing humanitarian data tracking systems about what is missing and what data users want to be able to see tracked
Background
One of the key Grand Bargain’s commitments aims to: “Achieve by 2020 a global, aggregated target of at least 25 per cent of humanitarian funding to local and national responders as directly as possible to improve outcomes for affected people and reduce transactional costs.”. This commitment is one which local and national actors around the world have been most keenly following progress on and is one of the few GB commitments with a quantitative target. Achieving this target requires organisations planning for and evaluating progress against this indicator and tracking is key on that performance management across the programme cycle.
The 25% commitment has become more central to sector wide conversations, given the Grand Bargain Caucus on Funding for Localisation and the focus within both the GB Workstream 2’s workplan and the new IASC Localisation Taskforce’s workplan.
There are several initiatives to track humanitarian financial flows, such as UN OCHA’s Financial Tracking System (FTS), the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Over the years these systems have gone through series of improvements and continue to evolve.
For many humanitarians, including local and national organisations, it is not intuitive to use these systems and beyond that, there are still many gaps in the data – for example on the quality of funding and how much funding reaches local and national actors via intermediaries such as UN Agencies and INGOs.
Call-in details
Attached is the calendar invite, and below the zoom link:
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApcOmtqzIrEtWgM7sUBPPUm3fycqzWAa6-
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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For further details, please contact Amy Croome (amy.croome@oxfam.org) or Smruti Patel (smruti.patel09@gmail.com).