Workstream 5 (Improve joint and impartial needs assessments), co-convened by ECHO and OCHA, has produced a package of tools and guidance which reflects some of their work to date. These tools and guidance, when accompanied by sufficient and appropriate capacity, will contribute to advancing coordinated needs assessment and analysis through the Grand Bargain.
The documents include:
1. The Grand Bargain Principles for Collaborative Needs Assessment Ethos
2. Quality criteria for multi sectoral needs assessments and analysis
The third Localisation Workstream demonstrator country field mission was conducted in Nigeria from 1 to 5 April 2019 by a nine-member mission team led by the Localisation Workstream Co-Sherpa from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
On 13-14 May, the Centre for Humanitarian Data and Development Initiatives will co-host a workshop on transparency, information sharing and data. The participants represent organizations that have committed to the Grand Bargain, an agreement between humanitarian donors and aid agencies focused on greater financial transparency and simplified reporting requirements.
Development Initiative's Angus Urquhart and Senior Consultant Lisa Walmsley analyse signatories' progress against the Grand Bargain transparency commitment:
Grand Bargain Signatories come together every year for an Annual Meeting. Please see below the outcome notes and other supporting documents.
Annual Meeting 2022
Annual Meeting 2021
Each Grand Bargain Signatory is invited to report annually on its progress to advance and implement the commitments of the Grand Bargain. The self-reporting exercise provides accountability towards the wider humanitarian community, beneficiaries and other stakeholders. It is also used as a starting point for the analysis provided by an independent annual report. This report assesses the progress of each workstream, and of the overall Grand Bargain initiative.
Please note that the IASC website will be hosting the Grand Bargain web-page.This arrangement has been agreed to by the Grand Bargain Facilitation Group.
New workstream 2 Co-convenor
Denmark has formally accepted the invitation to be the new Co-convener of the Localisation Workstream (WS2) following the decision of Switzerland to step down from this role. Denmark’s commitment to the localisation agenda is reflected among others in its Strategic Partnership’s emphasis on partnership and local leadership approach.
