On Friday 11 March 2022, David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) co-launched the quality funding caucus together with European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič.
UNCHR produced a report to outline its engagement and progress made in the Grand Bargain since 2016. In the five years since the Grand Bargain was launched to improve aid effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian response, UNHCR has increased funding and support for national and local responders, simplified reporting requirements, and successfully partnered with deve
Please find below the proposition paper the Alliance for Empowering Partnership (A4EP) developed to contribute to the caucus on intermediaries.
A4EP also created an animation video with information on practice from local perspectives. Please find the links below.
We are pleased to inform you that the Principals of the organisations represented in the Grand Bargain caucus on cash coordination - ECHO and the United States representing the Donor Cash Forum, WFP, UNHCR, OCHA, UNICEF, ICVA, A4EP, Collaborative Cash Delivery Network (CCD) and IFRC, with CaLP and CashCap as technical experts, and with the World Bank as an observer- , have unanimously endorsed a model setting out the structure, function, leadership and resourcing of cash coordination.
Before the year draws to a close, we would like to share with you a letter from the Grand Bargain EP Jan Egeland, outlining some achievements of 2021 and what remains to be done, i
Please find below the statement from A4EP on Typhoon RAI in the Philippines. A4EP is appealing for the Grand Bargain Signatories to adhere to their commitments to localization and support local organisations who are responding and assisting the communities affected by the typhoon.
This is the Grand Bargain 2.0 structure, which was finalised following a meeting between the Facilitation Group members and workstream Co-convenors.
Following the announcement of EP Jan Egeland to prioritise a caucus on the role of intermediaries in his letter in July 2021, Co-convenors of workstream 2 IFRC and Switzerland, along with SCHR, worked on initial thinking around the problem statement and the objective of the caucus.