A shifting state system, a dysfunctional market and a restless global society face rising economic inequality and mass migration, accelerating polarisation and extremism, and urgent demands for decol
Innovations in Donor Bureaucracies and the Implications for Peacebuilding Financing
Donors face increasing pressure to do more with less, even in the most fragile contexts. This policy brief analyzes how organizational factors within governments create obstacles for good peacebuildi
Principles for Quality Financing for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: Practical Avenues to Improve Support for Local Peace Actors
It understands ‘quality’ of financing as a standard encompassing more participatory, accessible, flexible, and sustained financial resources. In addition to increasing the ‘quantity’ of funds needed
Enhancing quality financing for local peacebuilding through pooled funds
In the extensive discourse on this topic the focus has remained on how to increase the quantity, predictability and leveraging of potential funding, rather than on how to improve the quality of this
Five Accelerators of Equitable Grantmaking and How to Harness Them
Global crises of the past two years have yielded at least one silver lining for nonprofits: They have accelerated a movement among grantmakers to match the duration and flexibility of their funding t
Praxis Series Paper No. 14 – The Power of Connection: A PAX joint learning pilot with partners
What does it take for INGO staff and partner staff to learn together as equals? And how can you deliberately design for complexity and dynamic environments? In the latest entry in INTRAC’s long-ru
Effective Options for Financing Local Peacebuilding
For peacebuilding to be more effective and sustainable, local communities need to be in control of their own peacebuilding efforts. This means that donors and intermediary funders should invest in pr
Good Peacebuilding Financing: Recommendations for Revitalizing Commitments
The Good Peacebuilding Financing (GPF) initiative has been mooted at an opportune moment when global leaders’ attention will be focused on peacebuilding, during the upcoming UN High-level Meeting on
Localizing Humanitarian Action in Africa
responding to crises remain severely underfunded, particularly in Africa, where civil society organizations (CSOs) receive insufficient funding from African and international actors alike. African fu
Localisation only pays lip service to fixing aid’s colonial legacy
“Localisation” has become a ubiquitous term among humanitarians in recent years, used to refer to putting more power and funding in the hands of “local responders”. The term is simple, it feels good,