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 […]