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 […]

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, […]