We at Fair Funding Solutions have spent the year developing ideas to share and build on with other participants at the Shift the Power Summit in Bogota. Could a Global Compact on Fair Funding help heal the broken funding system that is damaging civil society and holding back more equitable partnerships?

The stand-out pledge that these world leaders made as they launched the Grand Bargain on 24 May 2016 at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul was to ensure that “Local actors would receive 25% of all humanitarian assistance funding by 2020, as directly as possible”. This wasn’t a new idea, and indeed many NGOs had […]

We share ADD International’s experience to prepare others seeking to achieve similar transformations, and to encourage funders to invest in organisations that are leading system-wide change. We believe we will need many to undertake and support similar shifts in how the funding system operates, if we are to put more funds in the control of […]

Originally published on Linkedin 7 June 2019 This week marked a major milestone in our sector’s long campaign for cost transparency and cost recovery. The Department for International Development (DFID) shared its finalised guidance and budget templates for grants, which were co-created with a CSO working group involving Humentum, Bond UK, CARE International, Farm Africa, […]