Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF)
The Common Humanitarian Fund provides funding for the following Medair country programmes:
- Southern Sudan
- Sudan (Northern States)
About CHF
Donor nations to the CHF: Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) for Sudan is a pooled funding mechanism for humanitarian activities in Sudan; first established in 2005 as a pilot project and fully implemented and operational since 2006. Only humanitarian projects included in the UN and Partners Work Plan for Sudan (the Work Plan) are eligible for CHF funding. The main objective of the CHF is to provide early and predictable funding and to support the timely allocation and disbursement of donor resources to the most critical humanitarian needs of Sudan under direction of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC).
The CHF is designed to give the HC greater ability to target funds to the most critical needs, encourage donor contributions and allow rapid response to unforeseen needs. Both the Work Plan and the CHF help advance humanitarian aid reforms as proposed in the Secretary-General’s report, In Larger Freedom, such as strengthened response capacity, more predictable and timely funding to organisations, strengthened coordination, as well as donor endorsement of good humanitarian donorship principles.
Under the CHF, donors pool their funds; however, the HC manages the funds with support from OCHA and UNDP. OCHA serves as the CHF technical unit and is responsible for managing the allocation process, whereas UNDP is the administrative agent managing the disbursement of funds to recipient organisations.
Note: Most of the information on this page was sourced from the CHF website at: www.unsudanig.org/workplan/chf/index.php
