Having sufficient funds to cover staff resources and administrative costs in an organisation is key for the sustainability of any organisation, be it international or local. While donors recognise th
Case Study: Ford + Twaweza
Case study of how the Ford Foundation has sought to make its funding practices more equitable.
Foreign Aid Was Supposed To Help Nations In Need. It Has Instead Enriched Western Contractors
How the aid-industrial complex undercuts regional expertise and gives a competitive advantage to Western contractors with networks of ‘independent consultants’
Why foreign aid isn’t as generous as the latest figures might suggest
A closer look at the OECD estimates reveals that assistance to least developed countries actually fell in 2022. Foreign aid spent at home now surpasses what big donors give to respond to the world
Metrics Matter: How USAID counts “local” will have a big impact on funding for local partners
In November 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power laid out a vision for international development with a big goal: by the end of 2025, at l
Donor approaches to overheads for local and national partners
Ensuring that local and national actors can access overheads has become a key focus for humanitarian reform efforts over the past year. Locally-led humanitarian response is more effective, more effic
Saferworld’s Agents of Change: Cascade Funding Model
This brief is designed to highlight creative, innovative, and adaptive mechanisms already being implemented that provide accessible, relevant, and community-driven funding to local peace and developm
Guidance: How to implement the Grand Bargain commitments at the country-level?
This was developed by the Grand Bargain Secretariat with the aim to translate the results achieved so far into practical examples of implementation and also to strengthen the linkages with the countr
Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2023
Following a reformulation of the Grand Bargain priorities and structure (the Grand Bargain 2.0 framework) in 2020 and 2021, 2022 saw a consolidation of action at the political level, which resulted i
Passing the Buck: Economics of Localizing International Assistance
A study by the Share Trust and the Warande Advisory Centre estimates the economic implications of shifting 25% of Official Development Assistance (ODA) - aligned with Grand Bargain and USAID commitme