Living up to the promise of multi-year humanitarian financing
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The persistent gap between humanitarian needs and the resources to meet them continues to grow. Multi-year financing is often presented as a key tool for improving the allocation and effectiveness of humanitarian aid to protracted crises. It is also looked upon as an investment in actions across the humanitarian-development nexus to reduce need by strengthening preparedness and resilience. The IASC’s Humanitarian Financing Task Team an-nual work plan, agreed in early 2016 and reviewed following the World Humanitarian Summit, includes an activity on multi-year planning and funding under the “workstream” (output 1) on adequate humanitarian financing, which is context appropriate and accessible to operational organizations on the ground. Concretely, activity 6 states: Commission a study exploring the scope and implications of multi-year financing in the context of multi-year planning, including on work across the humanitarian - development nexus. The main purpose of this study is two-fo ld and will be carried out in sequential phases: 1) Determine to what extent multi-year funding is actually being provided to meet the needs as stated in a select number of multi-year or annual Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) through a desk review and baseline data gathering exercise. (Includes the challenges to reporting on multi-year funding; specific challenges presented by activity-based costing; aspects that are particular to certain agencies / financial systems, etc.) 2) Undertake an analysis of multi-year funding and its implications for humanitarian organisations in particu-lar how it affects budgeting, resource mobilisation, relationships with donors, agreements between first-level funding recipients and implementing organisations, possibilities for innovative financing solutions, and operations in the field. This analysis will include MYF that is exclusively for humanitarian response, as well as MYF for humanitarian organisations working across the humanitarian – develop ment – peace-building nexus. The analysis will also include an overview of the possibilities that MYF and greater collaboration between various actors to prevent, reduce and meet humanitarian needs and can reinforce humanitarian law and principles, and contribute to developing national and local capacities.