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More support and funding tools for local and national responders

National and local responders comprising governments, communities, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and local civil society are often the first to respond to crises, remaining in the communities they serve before, after and during emergencies. Grand Bargain Signatories are committed to making principled humanitarian action as local as possible and as international as necessary recognizing that international humanitarian actors play a vital role particularly in situations of armed conflict. Grand Bargain Signatories engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership and aim to reinforce rather than replace local and national capacities.

Aid organisations and donors commit to:

  1. Increase and support multi-year investment in the institutional capacities of local and national responders, including preparedness, response and coordination capacities, especially in fragile contexts and where communities are vulnerable to armed conflicts, disasters, recurrent outbreaks and the effects of climate change. We should achieve this through collaboration with development partners and incorporate capacity strengthening in partnership agreements.
  2. Understand better and work to remove or reduce barriers that prevent organisations and donors from partnering with local and national responders in order to lessen their administrative burden.
  3. Support and complement national coordination mechanisms where they exist and include local and national responders in international coordination mechanisms as appropriate and in keeping with humanitarian principles. 
  4. Achieve by 2020 a global, aggregated target of at least 25 per cent of humanitarian funding to local and national responders as directly as possible to improve outcomes for affected people and reduce transactional costs.
  5. Develop, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), and apply a ‘localisation’ marker to measure direct and indirect funding to local and national responders.
  6. Make greater use of funding tools which increase and improve assistance delivered by local and national responders, such as UN-led country-based pooled funds (CBPF), IFRC Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) and NGO- led and other pooled funds.

Co-convenors: Switzerland and IFRC

Past meetings

Dec
08
2020

Partnerships with Local Women’s Organizations and Women’s Leadership in the Time of COVID 19

15:00 to 16:30
Dec
08
2020

Partnerships with Local Women’s Organizations and Women’s Leadership in the Time of COVID 19

15:00 to 16:30
Dec
02
2020

Enhancing the Potential of Pooled Funds for Localisation

14:00 to 15:30
Dec
02
2020

Enhancing the Potential of Pooled Funds for Localisation

14:00 to 15:30
Nov
30
2020

Virtual Dialogue Series - Coordination and Representation – Who is making the decisions?

11:00 to 12:30
Nov
30
2020

Virtual Dialogue Series - Coordination and Representation – Who is making the decisions?

11:00 to 12:30
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