Advocacy and resource mobilisation - OneResponse

8.2 Collaborative funding appeals
8.2.1 Humanitarian financing – the basics
Supply and demand
Advocacy and resource mobilisation
Humanitarian financing involves managing demands for, and supplies of, funding.
Demands are made directly by individual agencies, or through collaborative
appeals such as the Flash Appeal, Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP), or via
Common Humanitarian Action Plans (CHAPs).
Funding supplies are facilitated through direct funding arrangements, or pooled
funding mechanisms such as the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF),
Emergency Response Fund (ERF), or Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF).
Funding demands Funding supply
Agency appeals
Collaborative appeals processes:
� Flash Appeal
� Consolidated Appeals
� Common Humanitarian Action
Plans
National government
Civil society
NGO funds
Private sector
Bilateral or multilateral donor funds
Pooled funding mechanisms:
� Central Emergency
Response Fund
� Emergency Response Fund
� Common Humanitarian Fund
8.2.2 The Coordinator role in mobilising funding
The Coordinator has an overarching responsibility to ensure that the cluster is
able to mobilise the funding necessary to address the priority needs for education
in emergencies, and that any funding sourced through the luster is prioritised to
meet the most critical – and under-resourced – themes or cross-cutting issues
related to education in emergencies.
Working in collaboration with the CLA(s), government and cluster partners, OCHA
and other clusters, his/her role will involve:
� providing guidance on the requirements for appeals, and the project
selection process
� assisting local organisations in preparing documentation for appeals
� developing a budget for the ongoing costs of cluster coordination
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