1. World Humanitarian Summit and Grand Bargain Outcomes Presentation to Nutrition Cluster October 18, Loretta Hieber Girardet, OCHA

2. OUTCOMES OF THE SUMMIT

3. The Agenda for Humanity
5 Core Responsibilities to deliver better for humanity
24 transformative actions to achieve them.

4. The Secretary-General’s Report
Emphasizes the need to place humanity—people’s safety, dignity and their right to thrive—at the centre of global decision making.
Calls upon Member States, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations and other relevant stakeholders to accept and act upon five core responsibilities to deliver for humanity and puts forward his Agenda for Humanity that provides 24 transformative actions necessary to deliver on them.
Urges global leaders and other stakeholders at the World Humanitarian Summit to commit to taking the Agenda forward and to making the Agenda a framework for action, change and mutual accountability.

5. Commitments to the Agenda for Humanity
223 organizations and Member States aligned themselves with at least one of the core commitments for a total of more than 2500 alignments.
26 organizations aligned themselves with all 32 commitments. This includes 17 Member States, six NGOs, and three faith-based organizations.
The Summit generated more than 3000 individual and joint commitments to achieve the Agenda for Humanity. At least a third of these are operational commitments.
Over 15% (508) of all individual and joint commitments had a gender-focus, indicating a strong desire by stakeholders to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.

6. Priority Trends emerging from the Summit
Recognition of the centrality of political will to effectively prevent and end conflicts, address root causes, reduce fragility and strengthen good governance.
Support for and commitments to enhance compliance with international humanitarian and human rights law. Recognition that more has to be done to improve compliance and greater accountability for violations.
Resolve to pursue a new approach to address and reduce displacement through meeting the immediate humanitarian needs of internally displaced people and refugees and provide greater support to strengthening their resilience, along with more support to host communities.
Commitments to uphold and ensure women and girls human rights and increase programming and funding to enable women and girls to take on roles as leaders and decision-makers.
Commit to Leave No One behind in crises, including people displaced, persons with disabilities, women, children, youth, migrants, older persons and other marginalized people.
Covers Leaders’ segment, Roundtables and Announcement Plenaries

7. Calls for a New Way of Working to meet people’s humanitarian needs and to reduce them by reducing people’s risk and vulnerability. 7 UN organizations sign and the World Bank endorses a Commitment to Action to work toward collective outcomes that meet needs and reduce risk and vulnerability over multiple years.
Major recognition of the central role of national and local actors and commitments to increase collaboration, support and direct funding to local humanitarian responders.
Commitments to accelerate investment in preparedness, prevention and building resilience.
Shift in mindset from short-term funding of emergencies to mobilizing long-term predictable and flexible finance for prevention, response and reducing risk.
Through the Grand Bargain, commitments to improve efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian response through reciprocal measures between donors and multilateral agencies.

8. New Partnerships and Initiatives launched at the Summit
The Grand Bargain
Regional Organizations Humanitarian Action Network (ROHAN)
Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action
Education Cannot Wait Fund
Global Alliance for Urban Crises
Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation
Humanitarian Data Center
Putting health at the centre of collective humanitarian action
Connecting Business Initiative
Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action
Global Preparedness Partnership
Risk and Vulnerability Data Platform
Humanitarian Data Centre
Charter4Change
NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response)
Inclusion Charter
Platform for Disaster Displacement

9. What is relevant for clusters?
COORDINATION: A move from coordination to collaboration? How do clusters need to adapt so that it works more effectively with a broader group of stakeholders? LOCAL ACTORS: What is the role of the cluster in building the capacity of local actors? How does it provide support to national governments when they are leading responses? HUMANITARIAN/DEVELOPMENT LINKS: What does coordination look like in protracted crises? What does “transition” for a cluster mean in a long-standing emergency setting? INCLUSIVENESS: How do are tools/processes and approaches need to change to better take into account the specific needs and capacities of different groups? ACCOUNTABILITY: Is accountability (including CwC) truly integrated into the work of clusters? How do we know it is effective and meeting the needs of local populations?

10. NEXT STEPS
Advancing the Agenda for Humanity

11. Advancing the Agenda for Humanity
The Summit was a point of departure for turning the Agenda for Humanity into action
In his report to the 71st General Assembly, the Secretary-General calls for:
An online Platform for Action, Commitments, and Transformation (PACT) to be created to facilitate transparency and be a dynamic space to report on progress and showcase results.
Annual progress reports based on self-reporting by stakeholders
A high-level stocktaking meeting in 3-5 years
Overall progress must be assessed by the impact of our actions: fewer people in need and vulnerable to shocks, progress in preventing and ending conflict, lasting improvements for people caught up in crises.

12. Platform for Action, Commitments and Transformation (PACT)
A dynamic advocacy and implementation tool for all stakeholders in their efforts to advance the Agenda for Humanity
Showcases alignments with WHS Core Commitments and individual/joint commitments submitted to the WHS secretariat in writing
Provides information on initiatives and partnerships
In the future will serve as a dynamic space to report on progress and showcase results

13. Users can:
Learn more about the Agenda for Humanity, the 5 Core Responsibilities and the 24 transformative shifts that are needed to bring the agenda to life
Explore commitments by core responsibilities, commitment types (e.g. policy, operational or financial), stakeholders, regions and key words
Learn more and connect with the initiatives, partnerships and alliances launched during the World Humanitarian Summit

14. In the next phase, stakeholders will be able to:
Register new commitments or alignments with core commitments;
Submit progress reports;
Showcase success stories.

15. THE GRAND BARGAIN

16. Background
Stems from recommendations made in the report of the UN SG’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing
Seeks to make significant improvements in the way aid is mobilized and delivered to ensure optimal use of funds.
Recognition that action is needed by both aid organizations and donors. Sherpas designated for work streams
Strong overlap with WHS thematic issues

18. Grand Bargain Areas of Improvement
 1. Committing to more financial transparency including reliable, real-time, prioritized, and comparable open data on the needs; reporting needs and all funding data in a timely manner to a global common data platform   2. More support to national first responders, thereby promoting more local ownership and local expertise is harnessed in providing assistance   3. Support more cash-based assistance to offer more choices to people in need while ensuring more transparent and efficient response where it is feasible   4. Periodic functional review on expenditures and the reduction of duplication and management costs; a harmonization of costs structures to facilitate such functional reviews  

19. 5. Improvements to needs assessments, with more harmonization and a greater focus on what people need rather than what aid organizations can provide
6. A participation revolution to harness more directly the voice of affected people in key decisions, listen more to and include beneficiaries in decisions that affect them
7. More multi-year funding and planning to maximize impact and save costs
8.  Less earmarked funding to maximize agility and appropriateness of response
9. Harmonizing and simplification of reporting requirements to ensure limited resources are spent on producing quality data and effective response rather than duplicative reports
10. A more focused approach to address the humanitarian/development divide

20. Participants in the Grand Bargain
                             
Donors
Humanitarian Contributions (OCHA FTS 2015)
Agencies
Total Contributions per Organization
(OCHA FTS 2015) 1
USA
WFP 2
European Commission (EU)
UNHCR 3 UK
UNICEF 4
Germany
ICRC 5
Japan
UNRWA 6
Sweden
IOM 7
Canada
OCHA 8
Netherlands
FAO 9
Switzerland
WHO 10
Norway
UNDP 11
Australia
IFRC 12
Denmark
World Bank 13
UAE
ICVA 14
Belgium
InterAction 15
Turkey
SCHR

21. Implications for clusters
More engagement with local responders
More systematic consideration of cash as a response modality, where applicable
Greater emphasis on joint analysis and harmonized needs assessments
More regular communication with communities and integration of feedback into program design
Multi-year funding- longer term planning prospects
More systematic linkages to development plans, potential closer collaboration of humanitarian actors with development partners (including relevant Ministries)

22. Accountability and Reporting
Integration of WHS and GB work streams into existing task teams and communities of practice
Light monitoring processes- focus on self-reporting
Focus on results ,not process- details still being worked out….

23. Thanks!