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Synopsis: 

The Grand Bargain (GB) is coming to an end in 2021 without achieving much on the 51 commitments made in 2016. The GB commitments largely remained confined to the headquarters of the signatories without proper dissemination to humanitarian actors on the ground. The Agenda for Humanity aimed at shrinking the humanitarian needs, but the humanitarian needs have continued to grow, as also highlighted in the most recent Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO2020). In absence of further extension of the Grand Bargain, or lack of a long-term humanitarian framework, it is challenging to seek sustainable reform of the humanitarian architecture. This is why, it is recommended to modify the GB commitments into humanitarian goals and align them with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) and Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Therefore, it is necessary that GB gets extended up to 2030 to have the same timeline as the three most endorsed global frameworks. The humanitarian architecture also ought to be more inclusive of emerging donors, Southern governments and CSOs to create wider ownership and have more informed discussion that would usher more efficient, effective and impactful humanitarian action on ground. 

The Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (A4EP) is a network of organisations committed to rebalancing the humanitarian architecture and practices to enable locally-led responses. Considering the discussion above, this paper asks for “A Grander Bargain 2030”, reducing the commitments so they are practically achievable. 

Humanitarian Overview:The Global Humanitarian Overview^[1] (GHO) 2020 launched by UN OCHA on 4 December 2019 provides staggering data on the humanitarian funding and the projected needs in 2020. In 2020, 167.6 million people would be in need of humanitarian assistance, out of which 108.8 million would be targeted through a budgetary need of $28.8 billion. 

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^[1] https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/GHO-2020_v8.8%20%281%29.pdf

#HAI is thankful to the BusinessLine of The Hindu newspaper for publishing the story of Pakistani-Hindu refugees in India, and highlighting the work of Humanitarian Aid International with them. Please click here to read the full article.

#HAI and Christian Aid analysed the progress against the #localisation commitment of World Humanitarian Summit for UN OCHA. Different stakeholders made individual commitments to five Core Responsibilities and 25 key transformations of Agenda for Humanity. This report is analysis of self-reports against two transformations, i.e., Reinforce Local Systems and Invest in Local Capacities. Please click here to read the full analysis and the recommendations:

300 civil society actors, philanthropists, academics and reporters joined the World Humanitarian Action Forum on 15-16 October in Istanbul. Led by the Humanitarian Forum and the Turkish Red Crescent Society, WHAF consisted of 4 separate parallel discussions around 4 critical humanitarian themes – conflict, finance, localisation and resilience. HAI was one of the collaborating organisations of this global event. The key recommendations of the localisation work stream could be read here.

#HAI and Christian Aid analysed the progress against the hashtag#localisation commitment of hashtag#WHS for UN OCHA. Please read here the analysis and the recommendations:

https://www.agendaforhumanity.org/sites/default/files/resources/2019/Sep/2019%20Analytical%20Paper_Localisation.pdf

HAI is one of the founders of The Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (A4EP), a network of organisations committed to rebalancing the humanitarian architecture and practices to enable locally-led responses. This position paper is a contribution to discussions during the ECOSOC meeting and side events from June 24-27 June, in Geneva. It has four attention points.

The paper, published on the Relief Web, can be accessed here.