Prioritisation

Still too important to fail: Addressing the humanitarian financing gap in an era of escalating climate impacts

As climate and conflict drive humanitarian needs to record levels, this paper explores why funding continues to fall short and what must change.

• Research and Studies

Why Ukraine is moving the needle on old debates about humanitarian neutrality

• Commentaries

Caucus on funding for localisation: Collective monitoring and accountability framework

Indirect cost recovery for local partners: One step to more equitable partnerships

This webinar engaged donors, international and national NGOs and UN agencies to exchange lessons learnt and practical ideas around how to advance fairer indirect cost funding practices for local and national actors.

• Research and Studies

Improving gender data to leave no one behind

This report examines critical gaps in gender data and proposes strategies to strengthen inclusive data systems that underpin effective policies for reducing inequality and ensuring no one is left behind.

• Research and Studies

Is the SDG monitoring framework broken?

This paper questions if the SDG monitoring framework is “broken,” pointing to excessive indicators, reliance on modelled data, weak transparency, and limited country ownership that undermine the promise to leave no one behind.

• Research and Studies

START Fund localisation pilot: External evaluation

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Pre-positioned funding as an approach to advance localisation and locally-led humanitarian action

• Research and Studies

Five ways the aid system can improve its accountability to affected people

• Commentaries

How much aid actually reaches the countries with the greatest poverty?

This report unpacks critical trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA) to understand what is left to be invested in countries with the greatest poverty, suggests ways to strengthen the core value of aid in targeting poverty reduction and proposes a set of principles for ODA allocation that put poverty at its core.

• Research and Studies

Scenarios for a 1% gross national income (GNI) external public finance target

This paper investigates the feasibility of a combined development and climate-finance target funded by additional investment from high-income countries worth 1% of their GNI.

• Research and Studies

United Nations Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund Final Narrative Report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Should Global Public Investment (GPI) finance social protection?

This discussion paper proposes applying a new approach to international cooperation called ‘Global Public Investment’ to help design the proposed global fund for universal social protection.

• Research and Studies

METRICS MATTER How USAID counts “local” will have a big impact on funding for local partners

• Research and Studies

USAID/BHA EAG Common Requirements Feb 14 2023

• Guidance and Tools

Trends in ODA through multilateral organisations

This factsheet explains how donor countries fund multilateral organisations, showing that flexible core funding strengthens support for poorer governments, while restrictive earmarked aid raises costs and limits independence.

• Research and Studies

Aid in 2021: Key facts about official development assistance factsheet

This resource highlights key facts from Development Iinitiative’s analysis of global aid reported in 2021, using the most recently available dataset (published in late December 2022).

• Research and Studies

Donor approaches to overheads for local and national partners

An analysis of donor policies and practices on overhead funding for local and national partners

• Research and Studies

Community based targeting: The ‘best-worst’ thing for limited humanitarian resources?

• Commentaries

Why so many humanitarian crises are forgotten, and 5 ideas to change that

• Commentaries