The Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) and the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) are some of the most effective ways to ensure that life-saving assistance reaches people caught up in crises...
Humanitarian Financing
Introduction
This topic includes reports and resources on a wide range of issues related to humanitarian financing such as accountability and transparency, partnerships, funding mechanisms and relevant policy discussions.
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OCHA Pooled Funds Complementarity: Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs)
Anticipatory Action Event 2021 - High-level Humanitarian Event on Anticipatory Action: A Commitment to Act before Crises, Co-chairs' statement, September 10, 2021
Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations co-chaired a high-level event to advance anticipatory action on 9 September 2021, in New York. The event brought together Ministers and senior...
World + 47 more
CERF Annual Results Report 2020
Foreword It is a pleasure to introduce the 2020 Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Annual Results Report. The year 2020 illustrates the need for an emergency fund ‘for all, by all’ that enables...
Appeals and Response Plans
Transparency
About the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund, December 2023
The Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF) is one of the principal sources of humanitarian financing in Ethiopia. Since its establishment in 2006, the Fund responded to disasters triggered by natural...
Exploring equity in global health collaborations: a qualitative study of donor and recipient power dynamics in Liberia
Brigid E Cakouros, Johannah Gum, Defne L Levine, Joseph Lewis, Antoinette H Wright, Bernice Dahn, Kristina Talbert-Slagle Abstract Introduction Global health collaborations between individuals from...
Shining a light on the shadow of GBV: FTS and its role in combating gender-based violence
As the world gears up for International Women's Day and the 68th Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) theme of accelerating gender equality by strengthening financing with a gender perspective,...
Private Sector
Briefing to the United Nations Security Council by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva (New York, 6 March 2024)
[As delivered] President, Security Council resolution 2721 provides a clear goal for the international community’s engagement with the de facto authorities. That end state is an Afghanistan at peace...
UNRWA Claims Versus Facts (February 2024)
UNRWA has long faced misinformation and disinformation, including about its staff and operations. This has intensified since the war in Gaza began on 7 October. This document outlines UNRWA’s...
World + 39 more
Food Security Update (February 15, 2024)
Domestic food price inflation remains high. Inflation higher than 5% is experienced in 57.9% of low-income countries (a decrease of 5.3 percentage points since the last update on February 1, 2024),...
Pooled Funds
Sudan + 19 more
IRC 2024 Emergency Watchlist
IRC Emergency Watchlist: Sudan, occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan top list of 20 countries set to deteriorate the most in 2024 Watchlist countries account for about 10% of the world’s...
Afghanistan + 6 more
OCHA-managed pooled funds and loss & damage: OCHA's crucial role in an evolving space, July 5, 2023
PREPARED BY: ERNESTA SWANEPOEL BCOM LLB LLM (MARINE & ENVIRONMENTAL LAW) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that where climate hazards interact with high...
Bangladesh + 5 more
OCHA-managed pooled funds and loss & damage: OCHA’S crucial role in an evolving space a policy brief, July 8 2023
SUMMARY The findings of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are clear: “Some extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and (or) severity...
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IASC Strategic Priorities 2022-2024
In October 2021, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) endorsed its biennium Strategic Priorities for 2022-2023, namely, to collectively strengthen operational response, accountability and...
Uganda + 5 more
South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (January - December 2024)
Regional Overview Executive Summary The 2024 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) is a collective, multisectoral endeavour involving 123 partners, including United Nations agencies,...
About the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund, December 2023
The Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (EHF) is one of the principal sources of humanitarian financing in Ethiopia. Since its establishment in 2006, the Fund responded to disasters triggered by natural...