Risk Sharing in practice: success stories, enablers, and barriers to risk sharing in the humanitarian sector

At the 2021 Grand Bargain Annual Meeting, the ICRC and the Netherlands committed to generate evidence and collect good practices on risk sharing. We are therefore pleased to share the report “Risk Sharing in practice: success stories, enablers, and barriers to risk sharing in the humanitarian sector.”                                        

With the support of InterAction, the ICRC and the Netherlands commissioned this independent research to gather evidence of positive risk sharing practices, along with evidence of where risk sharing has been less successful, in order to build a picture of what enables successful risk sharing and what forms a barrier to it. In order to do this, 24 Key Informant Interviews were held with 21 different organisations (including National and International NGOs, United Nations agencies, Red Cross entities and government donor bodies), amounting to approximately 50 case studies of risk sharing efforts in different contexts.

Please refer to the report for a complete analysis of the case studies, as well as for the recommendations issued to donors and organisations.

The ICRC and the Netherlands hope that the report’s findings will allow for successes to be replicated and challenges to be addressed from new perspectives, paving the way for risk management approaches that enable and facilitate effective, timely and responsive humanitarian action for people in need. 

Click here to read the report.