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1. CAFOD Crisis watch issue 1 (1 MB)

   Crisis Watch is our new quarterly round up of CAFOD’s responses to emergencies around the world. 

2. First steps agreed to develop a new humanitarian standards architecture (6 MB)

   The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project have now moved into the action phase to develop a new humanitarian standards architecture.

3. Southern NGOs’ access to humanitarian funding (244 kB)

   This paper and some upcoming commissioned research will inform policy and advocacy aimed at enhancing southern NGOs’ access to international humanitarian financing mechanisms.

4. NHRP II note to Governments on the Transformative Agenda 18 December 2012 (1 MB)

   Since the IASC’s adoption of the Transformative Agenda (TA) in December 2011, donors and some other governments have welcomed the IASC’s efforts to improve coordinated humanitarian responses. Donors have offered significant support to the TA and the humanitarian community are appreciative of this support. However gaps and weaknesses in the reform process linger and NGOs continue to experience challenges engaging with and influencing the mechanisms of the TA. This note summarises some of those issues and suggests a number of ways for donors to strengthen their advocacy and support.

5. Finding partnerships and approaches that work (50 kB)

   "Challenges in reasserting the centrality of humanitarian principles: finding partnerships and approaches" - a speech by Margaret Mwaniki, Regional Desk Officer at Caritas Africa, at the CAFOD/Caritas International Side Event at 2012 ECOSOC Humanitarian Segment, United Nations, 18 July 2012.

6. Aid effectiveness in contexts of poor governance, conflict and fragility (209 kB)

   This statement draws on the experiences of UK relief, development and peacebuilding agencies in a number of contexts affected by poor governance, conflict and fragility. It highlights both the need to protect and build on existing commitments whilst also working to make aid more effective in contexts of poor governance, conflict and fragility.

7. DfID’s Humanitarian and Emergency Response Review (HERR) (71 kB)

   In October 2010 DfID announced an independent review of its emergency response work. The review which was chaired by Lord Paddy Ashdown invited submissions from humanitarian practioners. Read CAFOD’s submission to the HERR here.

8. Humanitarian pooled funding mechanisms: Learning from NGO experiences in accessing pooled funds (44 kB)

   Based on a presentation given by CAFOD’s Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor, Anne Street, in Geneva in October 2010, this paper summarises NGOs experiences with the pooled funds in DRC, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Afghanistan.

9. Synthesis Report: Review of the engagement of NGOs with the humanitarian reform process. (892 kB)

   Based on 5 country mapping studies, this report analyses the state of global humanitarian reform efforts from an NGO perspective. It finds significant progress in humanitarian financing, with the creation of the global Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and at the country level the Common Humanitarian Funds, the Emergency response Funds and Humanitarian response Funds. Improvements were also found as a result of the introduction of the cluster approach. Accountability to crisis affected populations was patchy and improvements in humanitarian leadership was particularly weak. The biggest gap was identified as the marginalisation of national NGOs from a process which was originally conceived by and focused on the international community.

10. An NGO position: Humanitarian aid in European Commission external action funding (196 kB)

    In June 2011, the European Commission (EC) launched its proposal for the future European budget. The proposal looks into the challenges of the changing global environment and sets priorities for action both inside and outside of the EU to address them. The EC proposal attributes additional funding to external action, including humanitarian aid. This paper examines the proposal and makes recommendations for its implementation from an NGO position.