Position paper

Reflections on the way forward for OCHA’s CBPFs and RhPFs and broader pooled funds

Published 31. May 2025|Updated 08. Dec 2025
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Humanitarian policy Humanitarian financing
NRC supports the use of pooled funds – in the broadest sense – to enable and sustain a principled response and channel funding to the best placed actor. The system should increase funding to all pooled funds, paying particular attention to NGO-led funds (both international and local) that have shown promise and where evidence suggests they should be scaled up.

NRC recognises that local and national actors (LNAs), INGOs, and UN agencies all play an important, complementary and differentiated role in the humanitarian ecosystem that is pivotal to ensuring quality services are delivered at scale, humanitarian principles are upheld, and policy changes stay rooted in and responsive to the realities on the ground. While these roles will have some generalities that apply across responses, roles are not immutable and will be context specific.

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