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NRC, DI report sheds light on emerging humanitarian funding methods

By Johanna Montanari - Dec 11,2019 - Last updated at Dec 11,2019

The Justice Centre for Legal Aid in Jordan established itself as the largest legal aid provider in the country with the help of multiyear funding from the World Bank, according to a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council and Development Initiatives (Photo courtesy of the Justice Centre for Legal Aid Facebook page)

AMMAN — A report on multi-year humanitarian funding and planning (MYHF) published earlier this month by the Norwegian Refugee Council and Development Initiatives (DI) and funded by the government of Canada aims to analyse international humanitarian aid and outline recommendations for donors and organisations. 

The report, written by Senior Analyst at DI Niklas Rieger, seeks to support the “Grand Bargain workstream on enhanced quality of funding” and gives several recommendations for how to proceed with and improve MYHF based on evidence from Lebanon and Jordan.

The purpose of the report is to contribute to an “improved understanding of how predictable and flexible funding affects the reality on the ground”.

The Grand Bargain is an agreement between the world’s largest donors and humanitarian agencies and was launched during the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action, according to the official website of the Grand Bargain.

According to the report, at the Grand Bargain Annual Meeting in June 2019, the provision of higher quality humanitarian funding was identified as “a key enabler” for a more efficient and effective humanitarian response.

Jordan and Lebanon were selected as case studies because of their “relatively stable crisis contexts” with “consistently large numbers of displaced populations”. Total international humanitarian assistance to the two countries since 2013 has remained high, though since 2016 it has been steadily decreasing, according to the report.

The recommendations given in the report include establishing a shared understanding of MYHF as a “critical first step” and building an evidence base of how existing MYHF, even if relatively small, improved their response, while specifying the potential benefits of greater amounts of funding.

The report gives the example of the Justice Centre for Legal Aid (JCLA) in Jordan to showcase the potential benefits of long-term investments in enhancing organisational capacity. According to the report, the centre established itself as the largest legal aid provider in the country with the help of two successive rounds of multi-year funding from the World Bank between 2012 and 2019.

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