Sector: #cofog0122 - Economic aid routed through international organizations (CS)
Introduction
The Grand Bargain is about harnessing the vast experience and expertise from across the humanitarian ecosystem and bringing it into a realignment which is better prepared for tackling the emergency needs of more than 125 million people, fully recognising the diverse needs defined by their age, gender and abilities.
It contains the ten work streams listed under Articles:
Source (of all chapters): The Grand Bargain – A Shared Commitment to Better Serve People in Need (World Humanitarian Summit website).
Objective
The Grand Bargain’s purpose is to get more means into the hands of people in need. By increasing efficiency, we can shift resources away from draining backroom activities to frontline delivery. The UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel (HLP) estimated the funding gap for humanitarian action to be US$15 billion.
The proposers of The Grand Bargain believe that greater efficiency and collaboration will create a virtuous circle, drawing in more resources from a wider range of
stakeholders.
Providers
Donors: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Commission, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Aid organisations:
1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2. InterAction
3. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
4. International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
5. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
6. International Organization for Migration (IOM)
7. Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR)
8. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
9. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
10. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
11. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
12. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
13. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
14. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
15. World Bank
16. World Food Programme (WFP)
The Grand Bargain - A Shared Commitment to Better Serve People in Need - #tgb
- #tgb01 - Greater transparency
- #tgb02 - More support and funding tools for local and national responders
- #tgb03 - Increase the use and coordination of cash-based programming
- #tgb04 - Reduce duplication and management costs with periodic functional reviews
- #tgb05 - Improve joint and impartial needs assessments
- #tgb06 - A participation revolution: include people receiving aid in making the decisions which affect their lives
- #tgb07 - Increase collaborative humanitarian multi-year planning and funding
- #tgb08 - Reduce the earmarking of donor contributions
- #tgb09 - Harmonise and simplify reporting requirements
- #tgb10 - Enhance engagement between humanitarian and development actors
A good article on the Grand Bargain's progress is Hunting for the Grand Bargain - Fixing emergency aid, one committee at a time (Louise Redvers, March 22, 2017).
A detailed progress on each work stream is in a briefing paper by global NGO network ICVA.
It found that, one year on, most work streams are still at the stage of mapping their topics and commissioning reports and surveys to understand the status quo and create baselines.
Jan Goossenaerts
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