Several types of financing mechanisms have been set up in order to enhance the coordination of funding from a number of different donors and ensure that urgent priority needs are met.
Development Initiatives has been involved in reviewing and advising on these mechanisms - both through the GHA programme and as a consultancy - some of this work is published below.
More information on financing mechanisms on this site - Factsheets - GHA Report 2009
Evaluation of common/pooled humanitarian funds in DRC and Sudan
An evaluation of the common/pooled funding mechanisms in both Sudan and DRC commissioned by OCHA and UNDPERF review 2007
In January 2007 Development Initiatives prepared this review of Emergency Response Funds (ERFs) on behalf of UN OCHA. Working with NGOs both at international and national level, we worked in the five case study countries (Angola, DRC, Indonesia, Liberia and Somalia) to answer some key questions. How do field-based funding mechanisms add value to humanitarian response? What experience do NGOs have of the timeliness and flexibility of these funds? Are reporting requirements appropriate? What field-based flexible funding mechanisms would make the optimum contribution to the humanitarian response capacity?