Future of Humanitarian Financing - executive summary

The daunting scale of the humanitarian funding gap and the seemingly intractable nature of many of the well-known and documented humanitarian financing challenges provided the backdrop to the Future Humanitarian Financing (FHF) dialogues in 2014. Yet at the same time, economic growth, rising global connectedness, new technology, innovation in financing and business practices and emerging global norms around the need to manage risk and build resilience were repeatedly stressed as a source for optimism. This report represents an effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team on humanitarian financing to draw on this spirit of optimism and opportunity to stimulate renewed energy and commitment to resolving many long-standing humanitarian financing challenges and to identifying new approaches and models of engagement to address the needs of humanitarian crises of yet to come.