The Risk Sharing Platform was established in 2021 and is co-led by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ICRC and InterAction. Through this Platform, signatories to the Grand Bargain from national and international NGOs, Red Cross/Crescent movement entities, UN agencies and government donors, seek to improve the way organisations share risk, with the ultimate goal of better supporting affected people.
The result is a Risk Sharing Framework which provides a basis for interested humanitarian actors to further pursue risk sharing as a means to enable more effective delivery of support to affected people. It is not a directive tool, but rather a principled approach that can be adapted and used by actors as they see fit.
The framework outlines problem solving by risk sharing, barriers to effective risk sharing, guiding questions on applying the Risk Sharing Framework, and examples of risk sharing solutions (e.g. on security risks, safety risks, operational risk, fiduciary risk, legal/compliance risk, reputational risk, ethical risk, and information/data risk).