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Common Humanitarian Strategy and Humanitarian Financing: Tools and Trends

Common Humanitarian Strategy and Humanitarian Financing: Tools and Trends. June 2010. AFTERNOON WORKPLAN. Part I: Common Humanitarian Strategy. Consolidated Appeal Process Flash Appeals. Part II: Humanitarian Financing. Central Emergency Response Fund (global)

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Common Humanitarian Strategy and Humanitarian Financing: Tools and Trends

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  1. Common Humanitarian Strategy and Humanitarian Financing:Tools and Trends June 2010

  2. AFTERNOON WORKPLAN Part I: Common Humanitarian Strategy • Consolidated Appeal Process • Flash Appeals Part II: Humanitarian Financing • Central Emergency Response Fund (global) • Common Humanitarian Response Funds – CHFs (country-level) • Emergency and Humanitarian Response Funds – ERFs/HRFs (country-level) • Financial Tracking Service (FTS) • On-line Project System (OPS)

  3. Consolidated and Flash Appeals Appeals bring aid organisations and donors and governments together to: • present strategic approaches to humanitarian crises • plan, coordinate, implement & monitor response • appeal for funds cohesively • presents an action plan & set of projects • serves as a road map of required actions & funding needs • ensures funds are spent strategically, efficiently & with greater accountability Each appeal:

  4. OVERVIEW OF APPEALS • In 2010, there have been 16 Consolidated Appeals in Afghanistan, CAR, Chad, DRC, Kenya, Nepal, oPt, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, West Africa, Yemen, Zimbabwe, and the countries neighboring Iraq • In 2010, there has been only one Flash Appeal (Haiti), in contrast to 2009 when there were seven • Total requested in 2010: More than $9.3 billion; received almost $4 billion (41%). • Most appeals are and have been in Africa. • For the past three years around 70% of needs have been funded by the end of the year, leaving approximately 30% of needs unmet.

  5. Consolidated and Flash Appeal Funding: 2000 - 2010 As of June 2010

  6. What is a Flash Appeal? • A strategic humanitarian response plan • A tool for coordination, planning, and programming • Outlines priority life-saving needs, within a week of the emergency's onset • Contains rapid needs assessment information, a common humanitarian action plan, and specific sectoral response plans and projects • Addresses acute needs for up to 6 months and can become a Consolidated Appeal if emergency continues and needs persist

  7. Why do we need it? • To provide a framework for strategic, coordinated, and inclusive programming in a rapidly developing disaster or emergency situation • To avoid competing and overlapping appeals • To serve as an inventory or catalogue of priority humanitarian project proposals, and a barometer of funding response.

  8. Who is involved? • Affected country government • Donors (field office representatives) • NGOs (international and local) • Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement • Resident Coordinator / Humanitarian Coordinator (leading the process, with OCHA’s support) • UN Agencies • UNDAC teams

  9. What is the role of cluster leads? • Leading rapid needs assessments • Mapping capacity • Setting sectoral strategy and priorities • Gathering project proposals inclusively, ensuring that all top needs are covered • Vetting projects transparently

  10. Key elements of a response plan • Needs • Strategic Objectives • Proposed Activities • Expected Outcomes • 1.5 – 2 pages http://ochaonline.un.org/humanitarianappeal/webpage.asp?MenuID=12508&Page=1481

  11. Example of a project summary box

  12. RevisingFlashAppeals • Revisions are necessary because flash appeals are, of necessity, written within a short timeframe and using incomplete information • Revisions take place within 4 weeks of the publication of the original appeal (using the On-line Project System (OPS) • Revisions also accomplish the following: • Present up-to-date information • Outline progress made • Assess the effectiveness of current strategy • Update sector/cluster response plans • Reprioritize humanitarian response activities • Analyze funding • Advocate for donor support

  13. Cluster membership Visibility Access to pooled funds Donor requirement Why should NGOs participate in the appeal planning process and include projects in the appeals?

  14. ACF inAppeals • 255 ACF projects have been in included in 70 Consolidated and Flash Appeals over the past 10 years. • Total project requirements have been more than $177 million. • The average reported funding for these projects is 57% of requirements. • The largest project requirements have been in Sudan 2008, Haiti 2010, DRC 2006, OPT 2010, Afghanistan 2002, Chad 2010 (+$10 million each).

  15. ACF inAppeals

  16. STRENGTHENING HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE LEADERSHIP CAPACITY &PREDICTABAILITY FINANCING PARTNERSHIPS Part II: Humanitarian Financing

  17. Humanitarian Financing Three Problems • Not enough funding overall to meet worldwide needs • Funding is unevenly spread relative to needs (countries, agencies and sectors) • Funding is too slow Supply and Demand • Supply side and demand side: which instruments are related to which side? • Common humanitarian action plans and their selected projects (Consolidated and Flash Appeals) aim to organize the demand side. • Humanitarian finance reforms, such as pooled funds and the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative, aim to improve the supply side.

  18. Tool + Money = Improved Humanitarian Response Tool:Appeals are the tools for planning, coordinating and monitoring humanitarian action. Money:Funding allows projects / activities / programmes to be implemented. CERF, CHFs and ERFs provide some money for programs that are underfunded but essential for the overall humanitarian response.

  19. Humanitarian Pooled Funds • Global Level- CERF: Central Emergency Response Fund (since 2006) • Country level - CHFs: Common Humanitarian Response Funds (since 2006) - ERF/HRFs: Emergency / Humanitarian Response Funds (since 1997)

  20. What is the CERF? • Humanitarian funding mechanism established by the UN to enable more timely and reliable assistance • Launched in March 2006 to upgrade the Central Emergency Revolving Fund • added grant element based on voluntary contributions by donors (target of $450 million per year-grant component only) • Intended to complement existing humanitarian funding and coordination mechanisms such as the inter-agency Consolidated and Flash Appeals

  21. CERF is an integral part of Humanitarian Reform • Ensures more timely and predictable humanitarian financing to enable a prompt response to new or rapidly deteriorating crises by providing emergency funds • Reinforces the cluster approach (project vetting/prioritization) • Strengthens core elements of humanitarian response in underfunded crisis

  22. Who can receive CERF grants? • United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies • International Organization for Migration (as per GA Resolution) • While NGOs cannot apply directly for CERF funds, they can participate in the prioritization and selection process as part of the humanitarian country team and can receive funds as implementing partners of UN agencies and IOM.

  23. CERF Life Saving Criteria • All projects funded through a CERF grant must be for life-saving / core emergency humanitarian programmes defined as: • Activities that, within a short time span, remedy, mitigate or avert direct loss of life, physical harm or threats to a population or major portion thereof. • Also permissible are common humanitarian services that are necessary to enable life-saving activities (e.g. air support, emergency telecommunications, logistics). If not met, then

  24. Priority Activities

  25. Why a CERF request and a Flash Appeal? • Major emergencies require a strategic plan, not a series of disconnected projects. • Most emergencies need more funding than CERF can provide. • Most also need humanitarian actions that are more holistic than those meeting CERF’s strict life-saving criteria. • NGOs cannot appeal for CERF, yet they are often the main response providers.

  26. Common Humanitarian Response Funds • Country based fund managed by the Humanitarian Coordinator • Strategic core funding for the CAP & emergency reserve • Inclusive cluster-based allocation process • Access for UN and NGOs • DRC (2006), Sudan (2006), Central African Republic (2009), Somalia (2010) • More than 40 donors (UK, Netherlands, Swedent, Norway, Ireland, Spain)

  27. Emergency / Humanitarian Response Funds • Country-based fund managed by the Humanitarian Coordinator • Small, rapid and flexible response to unforeseen needs • Access for UN and NGOs (mostly NGOs) • Largest Ethiopia, Haiti, and Somalia (became CHF), Iraq, OPT • In 2009, 56% of funds disbursed to 92 international NGOs, 18% to 70 national NGOs and 27% to UN agencies.

  28. 15 countries

  29. ON-GOING CHALLENGES • Financial crisis: What will be the final impact of the financial crisis and the Haiti earthquake on overall humanitarian budgets in 2010? • Diversifying funding sources: How can “new” / non-traditional donors and the private sector become more engaged in established financing mechanisms? • How can pass-through funding, particularly CERF funds, be more effectively tracked? • How can humanitarian organizations engage with “development oriented” initiatives such as IATI and Publish What You Fund • Many more…

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