Good Donorship Initiative

Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) 2026: Discussion Paper

This proposal charts a path for the HPC during a time of incredible uncertainty, enabling humanitarian partners to carry out a lighter HPC that still produces critical shared understanding, focus, advocacy and action.

20 August 2025

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

• Guidance and Tools

Indirect costs for local and national partners: A mapping of the current policies and practices of UN agencies and INGOs (June 2023)

This updated mapping tracks progress on overhead funding for local humanitarian partners, showing new policies and commitments by UN agencies, INGOs, and Red Cross organisations since 2022, and serving as both a reference and accountability tool.

3 July 2023

Development Initiatives (DI), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

• Guidance and Tools

DFID’s approach to value for money – Guidance for external partners

June 2020

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

• Guidance and Tools

Cash assistance: How design influences value for money

This document presents a short version of the Value for Money (VfM) guidance utilised at Mercy Corps.

15 October 2025

Mercy Corps

• Guidance and Tools