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The Humanitarian Finance Forum is a global network of professionals working in humanitarian finance. We provide a platform for collaboration, learning, and advocacy. Contact us today to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.

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Bringing together experts with AidEx participants to share public and private perspectives around the new and rapidly developing field of innovative finance, and to explore addressing funding needs for projects in LIC/FCSA settings.

AidEx 2023 - Innovative Finance Side Event

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Public service provision in fragile states often involve a complex network of external development agencies, NGOs, and domestic institutions. This session explore building effective partnerships in these high-risk areas.

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Social Outcomes Conference 2023

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Across the world, 90 million people have a physical disability and require a mobility device. However, <a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241564182">only 10% have access to adequate physical rehabilitation support</a>. Without these services, living with a physical disability can put someone at <a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/document/worlds-first-humanitarian-impact-bond-launched-transform-financing-aid-conflict-hit">greater risk of societal exclusion</a> and act as a barriers to accessing education or employment.
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Organisations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) support provision of such services, yet <a href="https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2018/02/how-the-first-humanitarian-impact-bond-will-transform-financing-of-aid/">funding challenges are significant</a> and operations are stretched across dozens of countries. This makes innovating and scaling new management approaches difficult.
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Using Humanitarian Impact Bond (HIB)
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The ICRC sought to expand and improve efficiency of physical rehabilitation services. With national government agencies and a major foundation from an international bank &ndash; <a href="https://fundacionlacaixa.org/es/">La Caixa Foundation </a>taking on the role of commissioners of support services they had a starting point.&nbsp;
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After two years of planning, the<a href="https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank/glossary/#humanitarian-impact-bond"> humanitarian impact bond (HIB)</a> launched in September 2017. This would become known as the Programme for Humanitarian Impact Investment (PHII) and it is based on the <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/topics/development-impact-bonds">development impact bond (DIB) model</a>. PHII secured 5 years of funding from private investors.&nbsp;
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Using an impact bond allows the International Committee of the Red Cross to innovate and improve efficient delivery of rehabilitation services, while still ensuring high quality and well-targeted services are provided.&nbsp;
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The Impact
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Over 3,000 persons with disability have benefited from physical rehabilitation services in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali and Nigeria. Despite COVID-19, military coups and peaks of violence making the implementation of the project complex, the rehabilitation centres are 9% more efficient than the benchmark centre in terms of time management, staff member skills, management of stock and resources.
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Read More Here: <a href="https://golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-bank/case-studies/humanitarian-impact-bond/">Government Outcome Labs, Blavatnik School of Government,Oxford University</a>

Across the world, 90 million people have a physical disability and require a mobility device. However, only 10% have access to adequate physical rehabilitation support.

IFRC Humanitarian Impact Bond for Physical Rehabilitation

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In light of the current highly challenging background of humanitarian intervention for the European Union and international humanitarian donors, the European Commission has adopted a Communication on the EU's humanitarian action: new challenges, same principles. It provides guidelines on how the EU may face this challenge in collaboration with Member States and donor partners. The Communication focuses on two main areas: (1) addressing needs, reducing the funding gap, and (2) supporting an enabling environment for humanitarian aid. Through an analysis of the Communication's seven objectives, the authors address key action and provide final recommendations. Furthermore, the authors evaluate which key actions are the most promising, critical or challenging, which have already been partially implemented and which should be prioritised. Implementation of the key actions is generally well-developed, albeit many are found to share certain critical issues. These refer specifically to the need for: increased transparency and accountability; enhancing EU coordination with donor partners; and significantly strengthening the EU's leadership role. Moreover, the implementation of key actions must take greater account of dialogue and coordination both in the decision-making phase as well as in the implementation of humanitarian aid on the ground.&nbsp;

In light of the current highly challenging background of humanitarian intervention for the European Union and international humanitarian donors, the European Commission has adopted a Communication on the EU's humanitarian action

The Future of Humanitarian Aid in a New Context

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Since the publication of the pilot study in 2010, ALNAP has provided regular assessments of the humanitarian system's performance using the DAC evaluation criteria. The full 2022 SOHF report describes in detail the conditions for delivering effective, efficient and principled humanitarian assistance grew considerably more difficult over 2018 - 2021.&nbsp;
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Performance largely stayed the same, and in some areas slightly improved, and can therefore be regarded as a positive accomplishment, but not a reason for complacency, especially in the face of new challenges in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and its wider impact on other humanitarian crises.&nbsp;
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A clear message emerging from the review of the past four years is that the basic principles that underpin and enable humanitarian action are under stress with the continued erosion of international norms and threat to global solidarity in upholding people's fundamental rights. And while none of this is new, the evidence suggests it is worsening, with a quick reversal of recent trends unlikely.&nbsp;
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At the same time, global system risks are accelerating and hyperconnected systems mean that 'everyone is living downstream of something else'. Climate change is a clear driver of this systemic risk, creating cascading effects that cross geographic, political, and sectoral boundaries. The face of conflict is also changing, and the 'world is moving closer to the brink of instability, where the risk we face are no longer managed effectively through the systems we have'.&nbsp;
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Right-sizing the humanitarian system for the future will demand much more than an increase in resources and efficiency; it is likely also to demand a re-evaluation and a reassertion of its ambitions, its scope, and its role in relation to others.&nbsp;
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ALNAP is a global network of humanitarian organisations, including UN agencies, members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, donors, academics, networks, and consultants dedicated to learning how to improve the response to humanitarian crises.&nbsp;

Since the publication of the pilot study in 2010, ALNAP has provided regular assessments of the humanitarian system's performance using the DAC evaluation criteria. 

2022 The State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS)

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Driven by <a href="https://www.nrc.no/norcap/">NORCAP (Norwegian Capacity)</a> interest in blended finance solutions in displacement settings, the <a href="https://www.humanitarianenergy.org/what-is-the-gpa/resources-and-tools/blended-finance-solutions-for-clean-energy-in-humanitarian-and-displacement-settings/">GPA Coordination</a> Unit has composed an initial overview of <a href="https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/reports/blended-finance-solutions-for-clean-energy/blended-finance-solutions-for-clean-energy-in-humanitarian-and-displacement-settings.pdf">Blended Finance Solutions for Clean Energy in Humanitarian and Displacement Settings. </a>This report, along with its associated <a href="https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/reports/blended-finance-solutions-for-clean-energy/blended-finance-toolkit.pdf">Blended Finance Toolkit for Clean Energy Solutions in Humanitarian and Displacement Settings</a> provides an overview of blended finance mechanisms and their role in delivering sustainable energy solutions as part of humanitarian response.
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The report highlights key lessons learned from using different blended finance mechanisms in displacement settings and makes recommendations for their continued

Driven by NORCAP (Norwegian Capacity) interest in blended finance solutions in displacement settings, the GPA Coordination Unit has composed an initial overview of Blended Finance Solutions for Clean Energy in Humanitarian and Displacement Settings.

Bridging the funding gap and driving self-sustaining

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With the intensifying effects of climate change and the protracted global pandemic exacerbating existing development challenges in the past year, Convergence posits the time for scale in blended finance is now.

With the intensifying effects of climate change and the protracted global pandemic exacerbating existing development challenges in the past year

The State of Blended Finance 2021

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INGOs can benefit from impact investment as a tool to help them achieve their goals. They are uniquely placed to understand the local contexts and the operating realities in the global south, a perspective which is often missing when investment decisions are made by other parties.
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The following report is an introductory guide for INGOs to embrace this innovative form of finance.

INGOs can benefit from impact investment as a tool to help them achieve their goals. They are uniquely placed to understand the local contexts

Unlocking Investment for Social Impact

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The Taskforce launched &ldquo;Better Finance, Better World&rdquo; to lay out the business case for blended finance as a driver of global growth.&nbsp;
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The consultation paper presents key areas where we can &ldquo;shift the needle&rdquo; to unlock largescale private capital for the SDGs.&nbsp;
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The Taskforce launched &ldquo;Better Finance, Better World&rdquo; to lay out the business case for blended finance as a driver of global growth.&nbsp;

The Taskforce launched “Better Finance, Better World” to lay out the business case for blended finance as a driver of global growth. 

Better Finance Better World

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This brochure provides an overview of the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It explains why they need the Fundamental Principles, how they came about and the challenges their Movement faces in putting them into practice.

This brochure provides an overview of the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It explains why they need the Fundamental Principles