Local Pooled Funds
The Flexible Funding Mechanism for Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) in Ukraine
Partners: Oxfam and ActionAid
This pooled fund seeks to strengthen the organisational capacity of WROs by providing flexible funding and capacity strengthening support. The aim of this support is to enhance WROs’ participation and representation in humanitarian decision-making and reinforce their leadership role in local and national emergency relief efforts. The initiative also focuses on generating learning that will be used to inform the approaches of Oxfam, ActionAid, WROs and the wider humanitarian sector in the Ukraine response.
Local Pooled Fund with Reduced and Tiered Due Diligence pilot, with the Start Network
This initiative was born from recommendations within the DEC commissioned report on local humanitarian action in Ukraine, and from Ukrainian civil society, to establish a locally-led pooled fund in Ukraine with reduced, tiered due diligence requirements. The objective is to allow smaller and newer humanitarian NGOS and voluntary networks to access funding. The pilot aims to address this need by testing a funding mechanism that contributes to the establishment of additional channels, particularly NGO-led channels, for funding to reach local and national organisations as directly as possible.
The pilot builds upon Start Network’s due diligence framework, which moves beyond the traditional ‘pass-fail’ model, and has proven successful in upholding transparency, integrity, and accountability.