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Humanitarian Financing

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The IASC's approach to improved Humanitarian Financing focuses on addressing funding gaps including through innovative funding approaches and more transparent collective funding. Under its Strategic Priorities for 2018-2020, the IASC's humanitarian financing work is targeted towards closing the funding gap: the difference between needs and available funding to address them, developing links with the World Bank in fragile contexts, and furthering dialogue with donor countries including the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative.

Results Group 5 on Humanitarian Financing

Results Group 5 on Humanitarian Financing works towards reducing humanitarian funding gaps, the difference between the financial resources available and those required to meet humanitarian needs, through advocating for strengthening the provision of quality financing, innovative funding approaches and strengthening aid effectiveness through simplifying and harmonizing financing system. In pursuit of this, Results Group 5 is delivering against four priority workstreams:

  • Mapping and promoting financing instruments supporting humanitarian interventions with development co-benefits 
  • Facilitating the development of innovative approaches to humanitarian financing that deepen and widen the resource base.
  • Producing a business case showing the contribution of multi-year humanitarian planning and unearmarked funding to more cost-effective humanitarian assistance. 
  • Facilitating simplification and harmonization of financing systems to reduce burdens and free additional resources for humanitarian operations
     

Recently completed outputs:

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Quality Funding Package

Results Group 5 has published several products, developed in support of its priority workstream of building a business case to demonstrate the contribution of quality (multi-year, flexible and unearmarked) funding as a key enabler of more efficient and cost-effective humanitarian response. These have been compiled as a quality funding package for your reference. The work contributed to and was developed in collaboration with the Grand Bargain workstreams 7 (Increase collaborative humanitarian multi-year planning and funding) and 8 (Reduce the earmarking of donor contributions).

Financing the Nexus: Gaps and Opportunities

With the objective to strengthen aid effectiveness through more effective humanitarian development funding flows and mechanisms, Results Group 5 has mapped and promoted financing instruments supporting humanitarian interventions with development co-benefits in the study ‘Financing the Nexus: Gaps and Opportunities from a Field Perspective’. This publication maps financing instruments in Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Ukraine.

Simplifying and Harmonizing Systems

NGO members of Results Group 5 have presented a protocol ‘Money Where It Counts’ that aims to harmonize cost classifications and financial reporting across humanitarian donors. The core objective of this workstream is to increase efficiency in humanitarian aid by reducing the burden placed on field staff by existing systems for funding (agreements) and management of financial resources. Following the roll-out of draft technical tools for implementing the protocol, Results Group 5 now advocates with agencies to adopt the protocol, and with donors and implementing organisations to establish a pilot project testing implementation in the field.
 

Ongoing workstreams:

  • Develop a best practices and lessons learned guidance on how to utilize Islamic Social Financing (ISF) tools and provide practical recommendations for collaborative approaches to scale up access to ISF.
  • Multi-year study on benefits of multi-year and unearmarked funding drawing on multiple country contexts.
  • In 2020, Results Group 5 plans to identify funding and financing instruments in select countries for joint humanitarian development programming and to advocate with key donors on bringing them up to scale.
  • Convene a crisis financing round table to promote financing instruments supporting humanitarian interventions with development co-benefits.
  • Map donor funding practices with respect to multi-year and unearmarked financing and advocate for strengthening the provision of quality funding. 
  • Convene donor/UN agencies/INGO regulators around compliance and risk issues with the objective to identify and overcome barriers to quality funding.

Note: This group builds on the valuable outputs of the IASC Task Team on Humanitarian Financing, which has completed its work in January 2019.

Upcoming meetings

Mar
09
2021

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Apr
13
2021

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
May
11
2021

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Jun
08
2021

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
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Past meetings

Jan
12
2021

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Oct
28
2020

GCCG Bi-weekly Meeting

Geneva
14:00 to 16:00
Oct
26
2020

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Sep
22
2020

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Sep
17
2020

RG 5 Meeting with GHD Deputy co-Chairs

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
Jul
27
2020

IASC Results Group 5 Meeting on Humanitarian Financing

Geneva
15:00 to 17:00
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Co-Chairs

  • Ms. Marcy Vigoda
    Chief, Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Branch
    OCHA
    Email
    vigoda [at] un.org
  • Mr. Jeremy Rempel
    Head, Humanitarian Financing
    ICVA
    Email
    Jeremy.Rempel [at] icvanetwork.org
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Financing the Nexus: Gaps and Opportunities from a Field Perspective, 2019

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Recent documents

  • Annotated Bibliography on Further Lessons Learned on Quality Funding and Models that Work, Nov 2020
    Published Date
    23 December 2020
  • Summary Record of IASC Results Group 5 Meeting, 26 Oct 2020
    Published Date
    10 November 2020
  • IASC Proposal for a Harmonized Approach to Funding Flexibility in the Context of COVID-19
    Published Date
    30 June 2020
  • IASC Proposal for a Harmonized Approach to Funding Flexibility in the Context of COVID-19
    Published Date
    30 June 2020
  • Summary Record _ IASC Results Group 5 Meeting _19 May 2020
    Published Date
    22 June 2020
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Workplans and Progress Reports
Priority Areas of Work for the IASC Results Groups for 2020
IASC Results Group 5, Progress Report, April-October 2019

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