Putting local and national partners first
DanChurchAid is proud to be one the founding members of the Charter4Change (C4C) movement. DCA and the other founders took the initiative in 2015 as we realised that while local and national partners play a crucial role in much front line humanitarian action, they only received about 0,2 of all direct global humanitarian funding.
Instead of just recommending to donors and other international NGOs what they should do, the C4C signatories themselves moved ahead and signed up to the following eight commitments to be met by May 2018:
Read more about Charter 4 change here
By May 2016, 29 international NGO’s had signed up to the C4C commitments and 129 southern-based NGOs had endorsed it. The C4C commitments were highlighted by former UN Secretary General Ban Kin-moon as a key outcome from the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS).
Before and during the WHS, C4C was one important source of inspiration that led 49 donor governments and INGOs/alliances to promise that 25% of their humanitarian funding should go as directly as possible to local and national responders by 2020.
For 2016, DCA estimates that about 30% of our funding went to local and national partners in the countries where crises strike. For the C4C movement as a whole, the funding going to local and national actors is estimated to be about 24% in 2016. Best available data suggest that about 12 % of ALL global humanitarian funding went directly or indirectly (i.e. through one intermediary only) to local and national actors in 2015.
Apart from continuing to support the work of C4C, DCA prioritize work with local and national partners on capacity building. DCA also supports continued research and advocacy by the Local2Global Protection initiative – see more about their research into localisation and global humanitarian funding flows here
Local partnerships
DCA believes that civil society organisations can transform needs and rights of poor and marginalized groups into social and political power.
Accounts
Another good year for DCA - Income and what the money went to in 2016
Local to global protection
Documenting and promoting local perspectives on protection, survival and recovery in major humanitarian crises.