The Forum is Not a Project
Governance
The advice provided within this document stems from interviews with 18 NGO forum secretariats, multiple donor agency representatives, and host agency staff at both field and HQ levels.
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The Forum is not a project: Annex A Risks and Rewards for Hosting
Governance
To begin this one-pager, we must first point out that while there are inherent risks in hosting a Forum, we believe that they are far outweighed by the benefits they provide to the hosting agency.
Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19
COVID-19
The COVID-19 Global HRP is a joint effort by members of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), including UN, other international organisations and NGOs with a humanitarian mandate, to analyse and respond to the direct public health and indirect immediate humanitarian consequences of the...
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream - Guidance note on the participation of local actors in humanitarian coordination groups
This note builds on work done by ALNAP in 2016 on improving humanitarian coordination and the Global Protection Cluster and Global Education Cluster’s work on localisation. The note further draws on the regional workshops carried out by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream in 2019, which...
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream - Guidance note on humanitarian financing for local actors
Localisation , Financing/funding
This guidance note draws on best practices identified in consultations in three regional conferences on localisation conducted by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream in 2019, as well as from a research project commissioned by the IFRC with support from ECHO, consisting of a literature review...
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream - Guidance note on gender-responsive localisation
Localisation , Gender , Financing/funding
This guidance note was prepared by UN Women and the Grand Bargain Friends of Gender Group and developed through extensive research and three regional consultations with local women’s rights and women-led organisations (WROs and WLOs) as well as feedback from the Grand Bargain Localisation...
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream - Guidance note on partnership practices for localisation
Localisation , Financing/funding
More than 400 humanitarian agencies contributed to identifying the priority partnership practices for localisation; approximately 85% of them were local/national actors. The basis of the guidance note is the findings of the research conducted in Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria and South Sudan in 2018 as...
Interim Guidance - LOCALISATION AND THE COVID-19 RESPONSE
COVID-19 , Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) , Localisation
This interim guidance note has been developed in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and its likely impact on humanitarian operations around the world, building on work done by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream. It provides guidance as to how the international humanitarian community can...
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream - Guidance note on arrangements between donors and intermediaries
Localisation , Financing/funding
This guidance note is intended to provide guidance as to how arrangements between donors, and UN agencies, INGOs and other international humanitarian organisations (referred to here as “international intermediaries”), can further the Grand Bargain’s localisation goals in cases where direct...
NEAR Organisational Capacity Assessment tool
Monitoring and evaluation
This is an Organizational Capacity Assessment tool used in assessing the capacities of local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). The tool contains 7 capacity areas/components namely: Governance and Leadership, General Management and Administration, Human Resources, Financial Management, Program...