Individual action points/commitments put forward by the Signatories beyond June 2023

Published Date

6 July 2023

At the Grand Bargain Annual Meeting, the Signatories discussed their progress and achievements and presented actions and commitments extending beyond June 2023.

This page is continuously updated to reflect the actions and commitments made by the Signatories.

ActionAid

Commits to sharing information and updates about the Grand Bargain process and opportunities of engagement with the National Reference Groups with national and local partners, specifically to women- and young-people led organisations.
Commits to improve internal data systems for tracking funding streams and due diligence processes.
Commits to better track and document good practices on overhead cost sharing with partners and call out for quality funding to women’s rights and young people-led organisations.
Commits to scaling up locally-led response by working with at least 50% of national and local women’s and young-people’s organisations in the federation’s high alert crisis responses.
Commits to aim to reach a minimum of 25% of direct funding to local actors.

CAFOD

Commits to harmonising and simplifying due diligence to enable more proportionate approach for local actors; in coordination with other agencies.
Commits to cascading overheads and quality funding to local and national partners.
Commits to investing in multi-year support for country-level national NGO networks to represent their priorities at country and global levels.

Canada

Commits to making progress on quality funding and equitable partnerships.
Commits to advocating that multilateral partners cascade quality funding to local and national actors.
Commits to continuing to enable international NGO partners to count local overhead costs as a direct project cost.
Commits to continuing to support the Country Based Pooled Funds.

CARE

Commits to rolling out partnership benchmarks and indicators at country level to continue advancing the localisation & equitable partnership agenda.
Commits to map current local partners overhead costs practice of different CARE Confederation members and to attempt to harmonize this practice, to the extent possible;
Continue efforts to decolonizing how we work within Charter for Change and Pledge for Change;
Commits to continue to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls within Grand Bargain, also through supporting the two southern women led organisations / Network taking over the co-chair roles of the GB Friends of Gender Group. We also commit to continue to report annually against our funding to WLOs, through self-reporting to the GB.

Christian Aid

Commits to scaling-up locally-led response, combining a cash/nexus approach, and empowering local groups to design the programmes.
Commits to working with like-minded agencies to identify and promote ways of harmonising, simplifying and passporting due diligence to their partners.
Commits to staying accountable to their partners by showing constant implementation of the localisation agenda.

CRS (Catholic Relief Services)

Commits to advancing towards the 25% funding target, including through further investment of CRS private resources to expand its EMPOWER humanitarian capacity sharing approach and utilization of its ALLRIGHT Fund to intensify and catalyze investment in partner capacity strengthening for local leadership.
Commits to prioritizing implementation of the Intermediaries Caucus commitments.
Commits to piloting the application of the Risk Sharing Framework in countries where there are a significant number of local actors on the front line responding and where all stakeholders, including donors, are ready to participate.
Commits to working to influence policymakers, donors, and other aid stakeholders to support a more locally led and locally owned system of humanitarian assistance.
Commits to rolling out a new global policy on provision of ICR for local and national partners.
Commits to working with other humanitarian organizations to promote ways of passporting due diligence to their partners.

Dan Church Aid

Commits to ensuring a minimum of 30% of partner-implemented projects are in partnership with Women-led Organisations and Women’s Rights Organisations (WLO/WRO), and that by 2026, 8% funding goes directly to WLO/WROs.
Commits to implementing the overhead cost policy of 7% to local and national actors.

EU/DG ECHO

Commits to work on improving equitable partnership with local and national actors.
Commits to continue monitoring and reporting multi-year funding.
Commits to continue supporting CBPFs.
Commits to advocate for people-centre, joint, impartial needs assessment.

FAO

Commits to participating in a caucus on Anticipatory Action.
Commits to supporting any initiatives under the new framework of the Grand Bargain which envisages to strengthen the nexus approach.

Germany

Commits to continuing to provide quality funding and encourage their implementing partners to share flexible and multi-year funding adequately with local actors.
Commits to ensuring that implementing partners allow adequate participation of local actors in design, steering and implementation of projects.
Commits to taking a leading role in advancing Anticipatory Action.
Commits to testing the Risk Sharing Framework with a pilot project.

ICRC

Commits to provide long-term, consistent and sustainable funding and support to National Society partners and to operationalize the new Movement agreement (Seville 2.0).
Commits to enhance its abilities to manage multi-year, multi-partner projects in protracted contexts.
Commits to strengthen its strategic engagement with key development actors on operational partnerships, knowledge exchange and policy.
Commits to scale up and replicate innovative financing models.
Announced its plan to test the Risk Sharing Framework in operational contexts.

IFRC

Commits to continuing to champion the localisation agenda and reflections on the role of intermediaries to ensure National Societies are at the centre of decision-making.
Commits to placing National Societies at the centre of in-country Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement coordination.
Commits to increasing access for National Societies to better, more flexible, and predictable funding opportunities.
Commits to continue transitioning to an implementation model of direct delivery by its National Societies.

IOM

Commits to a realistic yet ambitious set of milestones for funding flows to local and national actors by 2026.
Commits to finalising IOM’s institutional localisation framework and related operational guidance, supporting the Grand Bargain`s caucuses outcomes.
Commits to rolling out institutional guidance on partnerships with national and local partners to strengthen equitable partnerships and simplify due diligence and narrative reporting for local partners, in addition to increased funding flexibility measures.
Commits to continue investing in its community-based planning methodology to reinforce a people-centred approach to programming.
Commits to continue to support collective AAP by leading an inter-agency project to develop training and resource materials for HCs and HCT members.
Commits to carrying on with its efforts to improve data and increase visibility of flexible donor contributions and transparency on its use of these resources, and continue to advocate for more quality funding in response to these improvements.
Commits to continue to engage in large anticipatory actions programs in coordination with UN partners via the CERF OCHA Anticipatory Action Frameworks to serve communities most at risk.
Commits to continue to pursue linkages and collaboration with other programming to support an HDPN approach especially in contexts of natural hazards.
Commits to continue engagement in inter-agency regional groups working on Preparedness.
Commits to advocating for progressively increasing the investment in both Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness programming, including forecast-based financing mechanisms.

IRC

Commits to revisiting internal systems to track data and progress on quality funding.
Commits to mobilising more impactful anticipatory action programmes – piloting the same community-led approach they have used in Nigeria in urban areas, in communities affected by conflict, and those who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis – providing insurance, cash transfers, and remote learning, automatically triggered by predictions on the scale and impact of upcoming floods.

Ireland

Commits to increasing the percentage and number of partners in receipt of multi-year funding – including Country-based Pooled Funds.
Commits to providing continued high levels of core and flexible funding – at least 80% flexible according to Grand Bargain definitions.
Commits to implementing the new 5-year (2023-27) funding scheme for Irish based NGOs – that includes multi-year pre-positioned funding, flexibility across humanitarian and development funding and clear targets for localisation.
Commits to setting out a clear policy position on localisation that will set out expectations regarding passing on quality funding and funding of overheads.
Commits to the establishment of a new Unit – the Peace and Stability Unit – that straddles Ireland’s development cooperation and political division. This will strengthen our nexus approach.
Commits to strengthening their engagement with partners supporting anticipatory action.

NEAR

Commits to continue informing their members and the Global South constituency of local leaders about the Grand Bargain commitments, as well as to consult with their members and provide a feedback loop to the Signatories.
Commits to continue and strengthen its work on providing, advocating and advising on quality funding for local and national NGOs through different funding mechanisms.
To follow up on the localisation funding caucus and support a learning event around its outcomes and follow ups by caucus members and signatories

Netherlands

Commits to promoting risk sharing as a cross cutting enabling approach and commits to testing the Risk Sharing Framework and link it with the focus area 2 (anticipatory action, multi-sector collaboration, innovative financing) of the Grand Bargain.
Commits to sharing experiences with risk sharing in a feasible, pragmatic manner, among others at forthcoming Grand Bargain Annual Meetings.
Commits to continue providing multi-year and softly/un-earmarked funding, enabling partners to respond to humanitarian needs when they arise in a flexible manner.

New Zealand

Commits to piloting multi-year funding in a protracted crisis setting (complementing New Zealand’s existing unearmarked multi-year funding).
Commits to further increase New Zealand funding to UNOCHA’s CBPFs in 2023.
Commits to enhancing our multi-year capacity support for first responders in the Pacific region.
Commits to a 2023 dialogue with New Zealand-based partners on how we can collectively strengthen accountability to affected populations.

Norway

Commits to continue providing quality funding. Norway believes a high degree of flexible, unmarked and multi-year funding is contributing substantially to making humanitarian action as efficient and needs-based as possible.
Commits to prioritising localisation when they take over the co-chariship of the Pooled Fund Working Group later this summer 2023.
Commits to aim of strengthening national and local partners through the Partner Agreements. How to further strengthen local humanitarian response is part of the discussions in preparing an updated humanitarian strategy which is aimed to be ready at the beginning of 2024.
Commits to consider overhead requirements for local partners, as part of ensuring ownership and participation by national and local organisations.

NRC

Commits to implementing its new policy to provide overhead to local partners.
Commits to investing on the Risk Sharing Framework.
Commits to continue increasing transparency by investing resources to improve reporting to FTS.
Commits to continue working with CHS Alliance to enhance participation.
Commits to support the work of focus area two related to the funding gap.

OECD

Commits to looking into how to potentially strengthen the linkages between the Grand Bargain and the DAC dialogue to identify the best way forward regarding the focus area 2.2.

Oxfam

Commits to continue tracking and working on the 25% target funding to local and national actors.
Commits to tracking funding that goes to Women’s Rights Organisations.
Commits to continue focusing on the role of local and national actors in decision-making.
Commits to continue supporting NRGs and locally-led initiatives in other locations during the next phase of the Grand Bargain.
Commits to working with the new Grand Bargain Ambassadors on Catalysing sector-wide transformation through the Grand Bargain platform.
Commits to participating in a caucus on Anticipatory Action.

Save the Children

Commits to continue supporting locally led humanitarian action by setting targets, policies and protocols, including sharing overheads with local and national organisations.
Commits to continue updating its internal systems to disaggregate data on funding passed on to local and national organisations.
Commits to continue establishing more equitable partnership and institutional change within the organisation in line with GB commitments.
Commits to making changes in reporting, advocacy, media and communications, so that give credit and visibility to national and local organisations when they wish it, and it’s safe for them.
Commits to sharing its individual roadmap on funding for localisation, once it is finalised.
Commits to co-leading a caucus on Anticipatory Action.

Spain

Commits to achieving 0.7% Official Development Assistance (ODA) target, of which at least 10% will be dedicated to Humanitarian Action

Commits to prioritising localisation, anticipatory action, and preparedness during its chairmanship at the EU.

Sweden

Commits to providing both multi-year and flexible funding from MFA and Sida
Commits to continued support for initiatives to develop cash programming
Commits to the continued promotion and advocacy of innovative financing mechanisms
Commits to pilot direct support to local humanitarian organisations (Sida)
Commits to continue pushing for increased gender analysis and gender disaggregated data
Commits to increase efforts on risk sharing

Switzerland

Commits to increasing the share of quality funding with partners by 2025.
Commits to sustaining the provision of multi-year funding to local humanitarian organisations.
Commits to persistently prioritising the outcomes of the caucus.
Commits to ongoing efforts in anticipatory action, risk reduction, and climate adaptation.
Commits to further its nexus approach and share learnings with others.

UK FCDO

Commits, as Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative (GHD) Co-chair, to sustaining the alignment between the new iteration of the Grand Bargain and the priorities of the GHD.
Commits to looking into localisation best practices as part of the donor country dialogue and identify ways forward to advance progress on Grand Bargain commitments.
Commits to keep working on anticipatory action.

UNFPA

Commits to continue implementing the localisation agenda with an internal target of providing 43% direct funding to local and national actors by 2025.
Commits to engaging and partnering with diverse women-led and women rights’ organisations, including supporting their inclusion within coordination structures through the GBV AoR and providing funding as part of broader commitments to support local actors.
Commits to continue developing an anticipatory action framework focusing on gender-based violence prevention, the continuation of and access to sexual and reproductive health services and rights, including obstetric and newborn care, and cash assistance to empower women and protect their livelihoods.

UNHCR

Commits to improving multi-year partnerships and developing multi-year planning.
Commits to continue working with the World Bank and OECD to improve data gathering.
Commits to look into potentially using the Risk Sharing Framework.

UNICEF

Commits to updating procedures, tools to improve the emergency preparedness analysis.
Commits to developing an Anticipatory Action framework.
UNICEF commits to deliver a comprehensive approach to localisation that involves capacity strengthening, ensuring multi-year and flexible funding, inclusion of local actors in the leadership of coordination mechanisms.

UN Women

Commits to increasing volume of quality funding to local partners.

US Government (PRM/USAID)

Commits to continue providing quality funding.
Commits to prioritising timely and predictable multi-year funding in 2023 and beyond to further improve effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian response.
Commits to continue working on Accountability to Affected-Population, on Joint and Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF) and on localisation. Very actively engaged in the caucuses.

WFP

WFP is working on a strategy to strengthen the capacities of local NGO partners, to be finalised by the end of 2023.
WFP is also embarking on a process to develop a corporate localisation strategy in the coming months.

World Bank

Commits to contributing to the focus area 2.2 in the Grand Bargain, by sharing knowledge and experience from partnerships across the humanitarian-development nexus and leveraging the GB’s additionality to further promote/ deepen mission-driven partnerships on knowledge, analytics, policy coordination and operational collaboration.

ZOA

Commits to continue working on the localisation agenda as one of the priorities of the 2023-2026 strategy.