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5D
Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and increase predictable, multi-year, unearmarked, collaborative and flexible humanitarian funding toward greater efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of humanitarian action for affected people.
- Invest in Humanity
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What led your organization to make the commitment?
Development Initiatives believes in the use of data to drive poverty eradication and sustainable development. We work to ensure that decisions about the allocation of finance and resources result in an end to poverty, increase the resilience of the world’s most vulnerable people, and ensure no one is left behind. Our WHS commitment is underpinned by a drive to ensure that these decisions are made using good quality, transparent data and evidence on poverty and resources.
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Achievements at a glance
In June 2016 we published the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2016, a comprehensive reference tool on crisis-related requirements and resourcing. The report was launched in June 2016 to coincide with ECOSOC, Grand Bargain and Good Humanitarian Donorship discussions. Key findings from the report and other related publications were communicated throughout the remainder of the year at other key events and discussions.
As technical lead of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Secretariat, we continue to provide guidance and support to help organisations to publish to the IATI Standard. In October 2016, with funding from the Government of the Netherlands, we began implementing a project to support the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency. The project raises awareness of the IATI Standard, improves technical capacity to publish and use humanitarian data, and monitors progress against the transparency commitment.
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How is your organization assessing progress
We regularly monitor progress against objectives to ensure that our research and analysis responds to and informs current developments in investments to end poverty and build resilience. Our project to support the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency includes the development of an online dashboard to monitor progress of the Grand Bargain signatories in publishing high-quality data to the IATI Standard.
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Challenges faced in implementation
No major challenges in this reporting period.
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Next step to advance implementation in 2017
We will continue to provide independent and rigorous data-led analysis to help others to make informed decisions that lead to better outcomes for people affected by poverty and crisis. This will include the publication of the 2017 Global Humanitarian Assistance report in June. Also in 2017 our work on the Grand Bargain transparency commitment will include a baseline assessment of the extent to which the signatories and other key partners currently publish information to the IATI Standard and a roadmap for the way forward to achieve greater transparency of humanitarian financing.
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If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing', what would it be
We believe that greater transparency can advance the transformation ‘Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency’. Transparency is a fundamental part of improving the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of all crisis-related financing – humanitarian, development and beyond. IATI sets a clear direction for improving humanitarian transparency.
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Cross cutting issues
☑Accountability to affected people
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Specific initiatives
☑Grand Bargain
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Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations
☑5E - Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
5E
Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- Development Initiatives will provide practical and technical support for the development of strong and transparent data systems to track all financial flows in crisis contexts, and produce high quality analysis that informs resource allocation. It will promote increased operational effectiveness by supporting all humanitarian actors to publish good quality, timely data on their activities to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard. As technical lead within the IATI Secretariat, Development Initiatives will provide guidance and technical support to help organisations map their systems to IATI and ensure that the Standard continues to evolve in response to the needs of the humanitarian community.
- Operational
- Invest in Humanity
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to promote and increase predictable, multi-year, unearmarked, collaborative and flexible humanitarian funding toward greater efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of humanitarian action for affected people.
- Invest in Humanity
-
What led your organization to make the commitment?
Development Initiatives believes in the use of data to drive poverty eradication and sustainable development. We work to ensure that decisions about the allocation of finance and resources result in an end to poverty, increase the resilience of the world’s most vulnerable people, and ensure no one is left behind. Our WHS commitment is underpinned by a drive to ensure that these decisions are made using good quality, transparent data and evidence on poverty and resources.
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Achievements at a glance
In June 2016 we published the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2016, a comprehensive reference tool on crisis-related requirements and resourcing. The report was launched in June 2016 to coincide with ECOSOC, Grand Bargain and Good Humanitarian Donorship discussions. Key findings from the report and other related publications were communicated throughout the remainder of the year at other key events and discussions.
As technical lead of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Secretariat, we continue to provide guidance and support to help organisations to publish to the IATI Standard. In October 2016, with funding from the Government of the Netherlands, we began implementing a project to support the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency. The project raises awareness of the IATI Standard, improves technical capacity to publish and use humanitarian data, and monitors progress against the transparency commitment.
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How is your organization assessing progress
We regularly monitor progress against objectives to ensure that our research and analysis responds to and informs current developments in investments to end poverty and build resilience. Our project to support the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency includes the development of an online dashboard to monitor progress of the Grand Bargain signatories in publishing high-quality data to the IATI Standard.
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Challenges faced in implementation
No major challenges in this reporting period.
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Next step to advance implementation in 2017
We will continue to provide independent and rigorous data-led analysis to help others to make informed decisions that lead to better outcomes for people affected by poverty and crisis. This will include the publication of the 2017 Global Humanitarian Assistance report in June. Also in 2017, our work on the Grand Bargain transparency commitment will include a baseline assessment of the extent to which the signatories and other key partners currently publish information to the IATI Standard and a roadmap for the way forward to achieve greater transparency of humanitarian financing.
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If you had one message for the annual report on what is most needed to advance the transformation 'Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency', what would it be
We believe that greater transparency can advance the transformation ‘Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency’. Transparency is a fundamental part of improving the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of all crisis-related financing – humanitarian, development and beyond. IATI sets a clear direction for improving humanitarian transparency.
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Cross cutting issues
☑Accountability to affected people
-
Specific initiatives
☑Grand Bargain
-
Other related Agenda for Humanity transformations
☑5D - Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing