Donors and financing

Key actors

• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

The forum for most of the world's largest donors, developing policy and providing support to members and partners

• Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative (GHD)

Donor forum and network to facilitate collective advancement of best practices for financing and principled humanitarian action

• Development Initiatives

Organization focusing on data and evidence on poverty and resource flows. Publishes the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report.

• Start Network

A group of aid agencies focusing in particular on new forms of financing

Information tools

• Financial Tracking System (OCHA)

Global, real-time database that records all reported international humanitarian aid

PHAP certifications

Knowledge about donors and funding is covered by the Understanding the Humanitarian Ecosystem (UHE) certification (competency statement 2.6). Access the study guide

Key references

• Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018 (Development Initiatives, 2018)

Annual publication analyzing humanitarian financing and related aid flows

• The Grand Bargain Explained (ICVA, 2017)

A briefing paper about the Grand Bargain process, why it was created, what it hopes to achieve, and its current work streams

• 24 Principles and Good Practice of Humanitarian Donorship (GHD, 2018)

A framework to guide official humanitarian aid and a mechanism for encouraging greater donor accountability

• Harmonizing Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery (OECD DAC, 2018)

Good practices papers covering the relationships between donors and partner governments, between donors, and within individual donor systems

• Too Important to Fail: Addressing the Humanitarian Financing Gap (High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing, 2016)

Report to the UN Secretary-General about humanitarian financing needs, mobilizing additional funds through either traditional or innovative mechanisms, and improving the efficiency of humanitarian assistance

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