The humanitarian and development sectors have been aiming to increase collaboration to meet immediate humanitarian needs whilst strengthening community resilience and preparedness, and contributing to sustainable development and sustained peace. But has this been matched with flexible, multi-year and predictable funding at the operational level?
In September 2018, a series of powerful earthquakes struck the Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. In partnership with local women and women-led organisations, ActionAid undertook a qualitative feminist research study to understand, within the unique parameters of the Central Sulawesi response, the challenges and opportunities for women-led localisation. Drawing on an initial analysis of data, this Preliminary Research Summary provides an overview of early findings and potential recommendations to the Indonesian government and other Grand Bargain signatories.
The present report is the third annual independent review of the collective progress made by the Signatories to the Grand Bargain against their commitments. Three years into the process, the Grand Bargain continues to attract substantial institutional investments from most Signatories, many of whom have dedicated staff/staff time, integrated the concept and the commitments into corporate strategies and policies and used the framework to shape institutional practice.
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 Ethos2. Quality criteria for multi sectoral needs assessments and analysis
The third Localisation Workstream demonstrator country field mission was conducted in Nigeria from 01 to 05 April 2019 by a nine-member mission team led by the Localisation Co- Sherpa from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Click here to read the second 2019 edition of the IASC Newsletter, where we take a look at;
The IASC Principals' May 2019 meeting
The first meeting of the new IASC Operational Policy and Advocacy Group (OPAG)
The OPAG's Results Groups' Priority Areas of Action to deliver on their priorities in 2019.
Highlights from the work of the Subsidiary Bodies in 2018
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With funds received from the Australian government, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) is supporting the work of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Team mandated to develop global Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, assuming a technical lead role to:
