External Commitments on Partnership and Localization CARE signatory to these commitments

1. Principles of Partnership (endorsed in 2017): https://www.icvanetwork.org/resources/principles-partnership • Equality • Transparency • Result-oriented approach • Responsibility • Complementarity Complementarity The diversity of the humanitarian community is an asset if we build on our comparative advantages and complement each other’s contributions. Local capacity is one of the main assets to enhance and on which to build. Whenever possible, humanitarian organizations should strive to make it an integral part in emergency response. Language and cultural barriers must be overcome. Equality Equality requires mutual respect between members of the partnership irrespective of size and power. The participants must respect each other's mandates, obligations and independence and recognize each other's constraints and commitments. Mutual respect must not preclude organizations from engaging in constructive dissent. Transparency Transparency is achieved through dialogue (on equal footing), with an emphasis on early consultations and early sharing of information. Communications and transparency, including financial transparency, increase the level of trust among organizations. Result-oriented approach Effective humanitarian action must be reality-based and action-oriented. This requires result-oriented coordination based on effective capabilities and concrete operational capacities. Responsibility Humanitarian organizations have an ethical obligation to each other to accomplish their tasks responsibly, with integrity and in a relevant and appropriate way. They must make sure they commit to activities only when they have the means, competencies, skills, and capacity to deliver on their commitments. Decisive and robust prevention of abuses committed by humanitarians must also be a constant effort.

Revised as best practice in terms of partnership principles November 20, 2018

2. The Grand Bargain – Localization Workstream An Agreement between donors and aid agencies to improve efficiency of humanitarian aid (May 2016, World Humanitarian Summit) https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Grand_Bargain_final_22_May_FINAL-2.pdf Localizing Aid “Mak[e] principled humanitarian action as local as possible as international as necessary Engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership Aim to reinforce rather than replace local and national capacities” HOW? Long-term investment in local institutional capacities (incl. prep, response, coord) Remove obstacles to partnering with local actors Improved interface between international/national/local coordination mechanisms Provide 25% of humanitarian funding as direct as possible to local actors by 2020 Maximize funding channels that deliver aid locally such as Country-Based Pooled Funds, NGO-led Pooled Fund, rapid response funds.

3. The Charter for Change https://charter4change.org/ Focused on civil society: a contract between international & local NGOs A set of 8 commitments for change Objective: Enable southern actors to play an increased & more prominent role in humanitarian action, enable locally-led response FUNDING 8 commitments VISIBILITY & SPACE CAPACITIES EQUITY in PARTNERSHIPS

The 8 commitments of the Charter for Change 1. Increase direct funding to southern-based NGOs for humanitarian action 2. Reaffirm the Principles of Partnership 3. Increase transparency around resource transfers to southern-based national and local NGOs 4. Stop undermining local capacity 5. Emphasise the importance of national actors 6. Address subcontracting. 7. Robust organisational support and capacity strengthening  8. Communication to the media and the public about partners