Advocacy and resource mobilisation - OneResponse
Advocacy and resource mobilisation - OneResponse
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Loans under the CERF are made to cover the same purposes as outlined above,<br />
the difference being that they require repayment within six months of receipt.<br />
The loan facility aims to enable UN agencies to access funds rapidly while they<br />
are waiting for donors pledged funds to be transferred.<br />
CERF funding criteria<br />
The essential CERF funding criteria are:<br />
a) Life-saving <strong>and</strong>/or core emergency humanitarian programmes<br />
that within a short time span, remedy, mitigate or avert direct loss of life,<br />
physical harm or threats to a population or major portion thereof. Also<br />
permissible are common humanitarian services that are necessary to enable lifesaving<br />
activities.<br />
b) Time-critical response<br />
refers to necessary, rapid <strong>and</strong> timelimited<br />
actions required to immediately<br />
avert or minimise additional loss of<br />
lives <strong>and</strong> damage to social <strong>and</strong><br />
economic assets. It relates to the<br />
opportunities for rapid injection of<br />
<strong>resource</strong>s to save lives either in<br />
complex emergencies or after sudden<br />
disasters.<br />
CERF <strong>and</strong> the Education Cluster<br />
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Reasons for CERF delays or<br />
rejection<br />
� failure to meet <strong>and</strong>/or articulate<br />
the criteria for ‘life-saving’ or<br />
time-critical responses<br />
� budget errors – inadmissible<br />
costs or inadequate detail.<br />
When CERF funding is triggered, the Coordinator has responsibility for identifying<br />
critical education needs, <strong>and</strong> selecting corresponding projects that meet the CERF<br />
funding criteria.<br />
However, as the CERF is only available to UN agencies, education projects may<br />
only be submitted by UNICEF as CLA, or by other UN cluster partners such as<br />
UNESCO. This means that NGO cluster partners may be reluctant to submit<br />
projects for the CERF, because the funding will be channelled through UNICEF or<br />
another UN agency, <strong>and</strong> the NGO would be put in the position of an<br />
implementing partner.