Sudan Humanitarian Fund 

ObjectivesFund scope

Invest in humanity

The SHF is an opportunity for donors to pool their contributions to deliver a stronger and more coherent response in Sudan. Investments in the Fund will allow partners to reach the most vulnerable people and will help ensure maximum impact of limited resources:

SHF is timely and flexible: The Fund supports the delivery of an agile response in a fluid and rapidly changing environment, allowing operational partners to act quickly knowing that resources are available immediately for the most urgent life-saving activities.

SHF supports leadership, coordination and a needs-based response: Under the leadership of the HC, a wide range of relief partners jointly asses and prioritize the most urgent needs through an inclusive and transparent process, fostering collaboration and collective ownership of the emergency response.

SHF is efficient and accountable: The Fund minimizes transaction costs and provides transparency, accountability and robust risk-management. Recipient organizations are thoroughly assessed, and relief projects are monitored with regular reporting on achievement and impact.

SHF offers value for money: It ensures the most strategic, effective and efficient use of limited resources in difficult and often dangerous circumstances, making taxpayer’s money go as far as it can to save lives and reduce the suffering of women, girls, boys and men caught up in the crises.
 

How does the SHF distribute funds to implementing partners?

Standard allocations support the Humanitarian Response Plan. To receive grants, SHF partners apply for funding and undergo a rigorous selection process. Their interventions are assessed against prioritized needs, activities and geographical locations, ensuring a highly strategic and coordinated use of funds. Standard Allocations take place at least once a year covering around half of the SHF allocated funds.

Reserve for emergencies allocations fund life-saving humanitarian interventions to new and deteriorating emergencies. Using the Emergency Rapid Response Mechanism (ERRM) which can release funds to partners within a week of the emergency, Reserve for Emergencies Projects (RfEP), and prepositioned stock, the SHF enables the Humanitarian Coordinator to provide an immediate and effective humanitarian response.
 

Frontline partners

SHF funding is available to international and national NGOs, organizations of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and UN organizations that have passed due diligence and capacity assessments. To receive grants, these organizations have to meet performance targets and provide financial reports. SHF has around 30 international and 20 national NGO’s as partner. The SHF prioritizes funding for NGOs as front-line responders, in line with World Humanitarian Summit commitments. Partnerships with and support for national NGOs facilitate a humanitarian response in areas with limited access and they help build national capacity.

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GovernanceGovernance arrangements

Management

The Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) for Sudan oversees the fund and its allocations. The HC is supported in making funding decisions by the SHF Humanitarian Financing Unit in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the SHF Advisory Board and IASC coordination structures.

The SHF Advisory Board represents the views of donors, UN agencies and international and national NGOs and provides strategic advice to the HC on SHF allocations, policies and governance. It is a forum to share information on funding gaps and coverage, ensuring the transparency and relevance of SHF allocations, reviews the operational activities of the fund and undertakes periodic risk analysis.

The SHF is governed by an Operational Manual, that is within the framework provided by the Operational Handbook which describes the rules that apply to all Country Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs).

The SHF Humanitarian Financing Unit handles programmatic and financial aspects of the Fund and provides management support to the HC, which includes oversight of allocations, contracting, programmatic and financial monitoring and reporting, and other accountability processes.

Projects

Sudan Humanitarian Fund

Sudan Humanitarian Fund is currently supporting count_projects ongoing projectscount_globalInterregional and count_countries country-specific. This table shows the most recently approved ongoing projects.

All project financial information can be found in the Financials section, including delivery analysis by organization, theme and project; project financial status by country and by theme.

Sudan Humanitarian Fund

Results

The introduction of the Common Performance Framework in 2018 meant OCHA could wield a new tool to the assortment of management, reporting and accountability instruments for the Fund and its results reporting. The tool is built on five fundamental principles that guide the management of Fund programmes: Inclusivity, flexibility, timeliness, efficiency and accountability and risk management.

Full information on results and resources: UN OCHA Sudan.

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