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Iraq Humanitarian Pooled Fund –IHPF Capacity Assessment Tools and Process July 3 2016 (updated November 2016)

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Introduction

The capacity review process is an essential part of the fund’s accountability framework, and a fundamental element of all OCHA-managed pooled fund. Its strength lies in its adaptability to specific contexts as well as in its inclusivity. It encourages a dialogue between OCHA and prospective NGO partners to highlight areas where capacity-building efforts can best be directed to continue raising the quality and timeliness of humanitarian aid responses.

The IHPF capacity assessment’s main aim is to ensure that the HFU possesses the necessary information about the capacities of the non-governmental partners that seek access to IHF funding in order to make an informed decision on eligibility.

The IHPF’s capacity assessment is considered as one of the tools used to strengthen the fund level risk management. The IHPF’s capacity assessment process and tools are informed by IHPF’s operational manual and the Country Based Pooled Fund Operational Handbook.

It is the IHPF’s desire to inform its stakeholder on processes and tools used in the fund; to enhance transparency of the IHPF’s capacity assessment process and to introduce the tools to the IHPF’s potential partners. It is also desirable to document the process and tools used to undertake the IHPF’s initial capacity assessment and establish the initial risk levels associated with IHPF’s partners, together with the associated control measures and operational modalities. The below diagram depicts the overall workflow of IHPF’s capacity assessment process:

Whilst there are more in-depth and fully-fledged capacity assessment tools and procedures that are available to use (please note annex 5 for a sample of the fully-fledged tool), the IHPF’s process is fit for purpose, desk based, and dependent on the documentation of partners’ previous experience in relation to IPs’ institutional, managerial/administrative, technical and financial capacity.

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