A new Tufts briefing paper focusses on the financing of humanitarian action, asking:
- Is the pot of humanitarian finance able to meet present and projected global humanitarian needs?
- Do existing financing mechanisms ensure that money follows need?
- Do the present financing mechanisms promote quality aid, encouraging it to be timely, context-specific, evidence-based and rigorous in its application?
- Are the operational agencies capable of using the funding appropriately?
- More succinctly, is there enough money, is it going to the right people in the right places in the most efficient way?
The paper describes the present state of humanitarian funding—focusing on the global picture, key trends and recognized shortcomings. While it includes discussion of new financing mechanisms, such as the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Common Humanitarian Funds, these are not the primary focus of the paper. Combined these tools account for perhaps 10 percent of official humanitarian aid. The analysis, by contrast, is concerned with the totality of humanitarian financing, and how the many different instruments and mechanisms used to disburse these funds interact with each other.
The paper is available for download from
Reliefweb (169KB pdf).
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