NORCAP

Introduction

2020 was a year of unprecedented challenges, both for NORCAP and the rest of the international community, but we proved ourselves adaptive and forward-thinking in facing up to them.

It is still too soon to say what the long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic will be, but there have already been far-reaching social and economic setbacks, many of which have hit the world’s most vulnerable people hardest.

Despite worldwide travel restrictions and limited health expertise and capacity in many locations, our experts have to a large extent been able to “stay and deliver” throughout the pandemic. Others have embraced the need to work remotely, tailoring their work to the new situation and improving outreach through digital training, coordination and capacity development.

Chief among the lessons we learned from our experiences in 2020 is the importance of building local capacity and making sure our activities are in line with communities’ needs and wants. This means designing programmes that better engage with the communities they are intended to benefit.

Most of our partners have asked for more expertise in these areas, particularly risk communication and accountability, to combat information gaps on Covid-19 which have led to misconceptions, rumours and contradictory health advice, and to strengthen local and national responses to increasing needs.

This has helped us re-engage our support for improved accountability and community participation more broadly. We began several initiatives during the year to better institutionalise and mainstream related work internally, and to prioritise and improve the targeting of our support to partners’ long-term needs.

Our role

We continued our strategic role in solving challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors in 2020, with the aim of better protecting vulnerable people’s lives and rights.

As one of the world's leading providers of expert capacity, we were committed to improving preparedness, response and resilience in humanitarian situations, and advancing the UN’s “new way of working” by strengthening links between humanitarian, development and peace efforts.

Through our work, we aim to:

Create opportunities. We promote more effective ways of working at the global level and in the field to reduce needs and create choice and opportunity for vulnerable people.

Work together. We develop partnerships and projects with national and international organisations and stakeholders. Collaborating in a coordinated and sustainable manner is the best way to reduce needs, risks and vulnerability.

Develop capacity. We provide experts to develop our partners’ capacity. They are well placed to identify and address challenges, improve collaboration and encourage innovative ways of working.

NORCAP's experts work strategically or operationally to solve challenges across sectors, meeting the changing demands of a wide range of partners, situations and crises. Our expertise covers the following thematic areas:

Crisis  response: Developing and strengthening crisis response is a priority for us. Our expertise covers areas such as protection, shelter, coordination, education, health and nutrition, communication with affected populations, camp management and resilience.

Coordination and capacity building: Independent of agencies’ specific agendas, our experts are often the preferred choice to coordinate humanitarian, development and peacebuilding efforts with the aim of making crisis responses more collaborative and sustainable. Our information management experts contribute to data gathering and analysis, along with the more elaborate needs analyses and assessments provided by ACAPS. We also strengthen national authorities’ capacity to respond to and recover from crises by providing expertise on issues such as gender mainstreaming, human trafficking and legal assistance.

Protection: We provide expertise and capacity building in physical, humanitarian and human rights protection. Our specialists work with field, regional and global operations and improve humanitarian leadership and response through specialised initiatives such as the Inter-agency Protection Standby Capacity Project (ProCap) and regional emergency GBV advisors (REGAs).

Gender: Together with our stakeholders, we make sure that gender equality is at the centre of their work. We recruit and deploy gender equality programming specialists, including senior experts, via the Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap). Through this joint effort with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), we make sure that leaders of humanitarian operations adhere to their gender equality commitments in line with current policies and guidelines.

Cash and markets: Our Cash and Markets Capacity Development Project, CashCap, provides specialists to increase the use and effectiveness of cash and markets programming in humanitarian and development situations. It is governed by a steering committee of UN and NGO members.   

Clean energy and climate services  : We work with national authorities, regional institutions and international organisations to provide expertise in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Among other things, our experts help to green humanitarian operations, improve coordination and increase vulnerable people’s access to clean energy and climate information. 

Democracy, human rights and peacebuilding: Our Democracy, Human Rights and Peacebuilding Programme (NORDEM) supports international organisations and national stakeholders in promoting and protecting democracy, credible elections, human rights, the rule of law and peace.

Community engagement and accountability: We believe programmes must be accountable to the communities they serve. We look for ways to ensure that both our partners’ and our own programmes engage the communities they work with effectively and appropriately. Their participation is vital for us as a sector to learn, improve and be accountable for our work.

Localisation: The Lake Chad Project supports local civil society organisations in Chad, Niger and Nigeria in strengthening their capacity for organisational development, gender mainstreaming, community engagement and accountability, monitoring and evaluation and financial management. It also supports the establishment of civil society platforms and mechanisms to include local organisations in decision making. Experts are hosted by UN agencies, but work directly with local NGOs and civil society networks.

Increased funding

When Salazar-Liévano was first deployed to UNHCR Mali in 2019, the education unit only had $35,000 at their disposal, but by being active in the national education cluster and creating visibility for the cause, he helped to secure $4.2 million in additional funding for 2020 to 2023.

The funding they received last year led to the building of 33 classrooms and a number of latrines, water pumps and hand-washing stations.

In a country where many schools are overcrowded as a result of forced displacement, this will by all accounts be a valuable contribution also beyond the pandemic.

In Colombia, gender-based violence expert Cecilia Bertolini worked to support survivors through an exceptionally turbulent year.

Gender-based violence (GBV) has been portrayed as a second pandemic to Covid-19, as lockdown and economic pressures have led to an increase in domestic and sexual violence worldwide.

“This was certainly the case in Colombia,” says Bertolini, who worked with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and co-led the GBV sub-cluster for the Venezuelan migration crisis.

Switching to remote mode

Internal conflict, violence and disasters had already affected millions of people in Colombia before the pandemic, leading to mass displacement. Additionally, 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees have arrived in the country in recent years, as a result of the crisis in Venezuela.

Covid-19 has only served to aggravate the humanitarian situation, and over the course of 2020 the number of calls to GBV helplines more than doubled.

One of the first things Bertolini and a UNFPA colleague did when the pandemic struck was to develop a new way of managing GBV cases remotely. UNFPA equipped case workers with phones, computers and headphones, and trained them on issues such as data protection and making remote referrals safe and confidential.

The method proved successful, and the team was asked to share it with the rest of the humanitarian and development communities in Colombia and Venezuela, reaching out across the two sectors.

Returns to Venezuela

As the pandemic made its mark on Colombia, another critical issue emerged. Venezuelans who had fled their country’s crisis began to return to their home country, as discrimination and economic peril in Colombia had made conditions unbearable.

Because of Covid-19 restrictions, a temporary health camp installed at the border allowed a maximum 48 hour stay for returning Venezuelans.

“GBV case management is usually conducted over several months. But in this case the women, girls and sometimes men who were reporting attacks and cases of survival sex along the migration route only stayed for 48 hours to a couple of weeks. We had to adopt a model of rapid case management,” Bertolini says.

The value of female leaders

Another life-saving measure included adapting the educational, psychosocial and recreational activities at women’s and girls’ safe spaces to remote ways of working.

“We arranged trainings on how to conduct video calls from home, mapping possible communication channels and providing phone credit where needed,” Bertolini says.

The female community leaders who would normally attend the safe spaces were indispensable in the process.

“They were able continue to provide information on issues such as Covid-19, GBV referral and key prevention messages to their communities,” she says.

“Strengthening the skills of local actors and community leaders is a central part of what NORCAP does, and this pandemic has again proved how vital that is.”

As the pandemic wreaked havoc on the global economy, it also heightened needs among refugees and displaced people worldwide. The humanitarian community turned to cash-based solutions to provide effective and dignified aid.

In its 10th year, the conflict in Syria has left more than 11 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.

As Covid-19 threatened to aggravate the country’s health, economic and security crises, there was an urgent need to reach people without contributing to the spread of the virus.

“From the perspective of people in need in Syria who have gone through crisis upon crisis upon crisis, multipurpose cash is one of the most flexible and dignified forms of assistance,” says Fe Kagahastian, a senior cash and markets advisor deployed by CashCap to the Whole of Syria response.

The scaling up of cash-based interventions globally during the pandemic was unprecedented, and CashCap, one of our flagship inter-agency programmes, played an important role. Our experts worked across the world to advocate for cash and voucher assistance, and to support Covid-19 adaptations in overall programming.

Supporting a variety of needs

Instead of simply providing food, clothes and hygiene items, the humanitarian community has increasingly included cash among its response options, letting people decide how to spend the money according to their needs.

“Humanitarian cash transfers are not that different from the social protection measures that developed countries have been distributing to people affected by the pandemic,” says Kagahastian.

“Every household is unique. We may be distributing winter items such as coats to people who already have them. They could have more urgent needs, such as medicine, or transport fares for work or medical purposes.”

A more effective solution

The role of a CashCap expert, which often includes inter-agency support and the coordination of working groups, becomes all the more important during a pandemic. Humanitarian agencies focus their time more on internal programmes and operational adjustments, leaving less time for coordination work.

“Working at an inter-agency level often results in a much more effective response,” Kagahastian says. “Together we were able to work on common policies and share information on market monitoring, advocacy and coordination of cash distribution. As an inter-agency group, our viewpoints also carried more weight with donors and other stakeholders.”

Like many NORCAP experts deployed in 2020, Kagahastian spent last year working from home, in her case from Amman, Jordan. Travel restrictions and struggles to maintain a work-life balance aside, she has a positive takeaway from the way Covid-19 disrupted our way of working.

“Before 2020, many in our profession didn’t realise we could touch people’s lives even from far away. Covid has shown us how,” she says.

NORCAP's climate and energy work in 2020 focused on contributing to UN agencies’ transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, and vulnerable populations’ access to climate information and services.

We had 30 energy specialists on mission during the year, a record number, upholding our role as the largest global supplier of such expertise to the humanitarian sector.

By developing projects and providing expertise to initiatives such as the Global Plan of Action for Sustainable Energy Solutions in Situations of Displacement, we stepped up our efforts to ensure energy is accessible, clean, sustainable and cost-efficient. We also provided technical assessments and advice for partners such as UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to support their efforts to ensure their humanitarian activities incorporate sustainable energy solutions.

In our work to improve vulnerable populations’ access to climate information we discovered that many rural fishing, farming and pastoralist communities in East Africa rely on the radio. We trained journalists in the region on climate reporting to raise such audiences’ awareness of the causes of climate change and how best to adapt.

Through partnerships with regional climate and weather centres, we also contributed to better quality data and tools to distribute climate services at the national and regional level.

To learn more about NORCAPs work on clean energy, see this video from 2020:

To bring about a global shift to clean and renewable energy, everyone needs to be on board. The humanitarian sector is no exception.

NORCAP continued to strengthen our partners' capacity in 2020 to green their humanitarian operations, and provide clean energy services to the vulnerable populations they work with.

We stepped up our support to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) country offices, as they have shown great willingness to transition to clean energy on the way to achieving carbon neutrality for the organisation.

We provided technical expertise and implemented solutions on the ground to help NRC fulfil its commitment. We were also able to use the collaboration and proven results to initiate a green shift in the wider humanitarian community.

Greener means cheaper

We supported NRC’s country office in Mankien, South Sudan, in replacing its diesel generators with solar power. This reduced not only the fossil fuel emissions of the office, but also its operating costs.

The humanitarian sector often works in hard-to-reach areas, making the transport of fossil fuels time-consuming and expensive. The freed up funds can now be directed toward those who need them the most.

"It's a long process, and it's not easy,” says NORCAP’s Mark Hankins.

“We had to build infrastructure, get the right equipment and train technicians to maintain it. But it's working. It's a huge change for the humanitarian sector. In the past NRC sometimes had to fly in fuel by helicopter. To have your own power supply is a great step forward."

‘’There is an immediate need to address the widening energy access gap impacting vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. A staggering 600 million persons in Africa, half the continent’s population, lack access to electricity," said NORCAP director Benedicte Giæver during the release of our newest energy report in September.

To address the energy needs of refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities, NORCAP set a bold agenda. Early in 2020, we teamed up with the Boston Consulting Group to produce a report that identifies opportunities to use solar energy in complex crises in Africa.

One of its key findings is that an annual investment of about $60 million would enable the transition of about 90 per cent of camp operations from diesel generators to solar technologies by 2030.

NORCAP enables partners to provide energy solutions for cooking and heating. Refugees, internally displaced people, and other crisis-affected populations often cannot access cleaner, more modern cookstoves and fuel. As a result, women and children have to risk their safety to search for and collect firewood so they can cook food over smoky, polluting open fires.

There is great potential for using biogas plants in displacement situations, but these types of facilities can be challenging to operate.

Despite these challenges, NORCAP worked with IOM to establish two such facilities in Malakal, South Sudan last year, collecting waste from latrines and converting it into fuel for cooking in a displacement camp.

We identified ways to make the system more efficient, established essential operating procedures and assessed whether the project could be expanded beyond Malakal.

"The biogas plant in Malakal was connected to a central kitchen in the camp, and the inhabitants were very welcoming of the new technology in the end. They were particularly grateful for the elimination of smoke, the fact that the gas cooks faster than charcoal and firewood and that it reduces risks related to collecting firewood,” says NORCAP’s Geophrey Oyugi.

“The next phase of the project will involve a cost-benefit analysis of the plant. It is vital to monitor the production of biogas over a longer period to confirm its sustainability in emergency situations, and to identify improvements and opportunities to expand the project.”

Climate change is felt around the world, providing stark reminders of the importance of adapting to a more extreme reality. One of today’s challenges is to ensure that robust climate information is communicated in a way that individuals and communities can understand and act upon before a disaster strikes.

Last year, NORCAP conducted an in-depth assessment in three rural communities in Niger to understand the access to and use of climate services for fishermen, farmers and pastoralists. It showed that many people rely on various digital and analogue media, such as radio and TV, for climate information. It also underpinned the point that women's participation is key to ensuring that all have access to the right information.

Harnessing the potential of radio

We worked with BBC Media Action in 2020 to produce online courses on climate reporting for East African journalists. This formed part of the Co-production of Climate Services for East Africa (CONFER) project, under which we and other partners work on new initiatives to strengthen climate change measures in a region that is home to more than 365 million people.

"Radio is a key communication channel in East Africa. Training local radio journalists on climate reporting helps rural audiences understand the causes of climate change and how to adapt,” says Baraibar.

“Activities such as smart agriculture, sustainable landscape management, agroforestry and ecosystems rehabilitation can help to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change and should be promoted through radio.”

The ability to predict, warn and prepare for climate related events such as flood, drought and extreme weather is essential to protect and increase the resilience of communities. In 2020, NORCAP worked with partners at the local, regional and national level to make climate services more accessible.

With our support, the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC) in Nairobi, Kenya, was able to improve its data visualisation products and tools and increase its provision of climate services at both the national and regional level in East Africa.

Climate information means climate resilience

Disasters such as flooding destroyed homes and communities in Niger in 2020, leaving many people internally displaced.

"The local flood levels observed in Niamey were the highest that have ever been observed in the area,” NORCAP’s climate expert Yacine Fall reported in October.

She worked with the UN Development Programme’s country office and the Niger Meteorological Office to improve the national framework for climate services and to implement community engagement activities to reach affected populations.

"Effective climate information is vital to increase resilience. It takes stock of the current situation, provides forecasts and guides local communities on what measures and action to take," she says.

The outbreak of Covid-19 complicated the delivery of timely climate information. It made it harder for aid workers, including Fall, to reach those in need, and forced them to adjust their plans and awareness-raising activities.

"Tondikiwindi in the Tillabary region was one of the first communities we visited after the outbreak. We presented seasonal forecasts and informed local people about the importance of climate services. We taught them how to install rain gauges, collect data and distribute information to agricultural stakeholders in the area,” says Fall.

“This has enabled them to plan better, make necessary changes or adaptations in terms of which crops to sow and when and find the right tools and partners to support them. We took all the necessary precautions when travelling to the communities and used the opportunity to provide people with information on how to protect themselves against Covid-19. It was difficult to undertake these activities remotely because internet and phone coverage is limited.”

In 2020, NORCAP launched a Clean Energy Female Accelerator programme, with the aim of increasing the number of female practitioners in the male-dominated sector.

We deployed five female junior experts under the programme to work on projects across organisations such as IOM, UNHCR, NRC, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Nour Al Najjar was deployed in September to assess, develop and implement a number of recycling, lighting and other energy efficiency measures for NRC’s country office in Amman. She also contributed to a plan to use solar systems to cover 40 per cent of the office's electricity needs, supporting NRCs initiative to make their operations greener.

"It was important to identify how existing clean energy solutions could be extended to ensure they benefit and are applicable to both local communities and Syrian refugees,” she says.

“Before I joined the mission, NRC had already helped to install on-grid solar systems at 23 public schools, mainly those hosting Syrian students in the north of Jordan. I was also involved in calculating the cost benefits and CO2 reductions inherent in replacing fossil fuel electricity and heating with solar cells.”

Twenty years after the UN recognised that women should have a prominent role in peacebuilding, their contributions are still undervalued and under-resourced. Through NORCAP's partnership with UN Women, the UN Department of Peace Operations (DPKO) and other organisations, we are pushing for a greater role for women in humanitarian programming, conflict analysis and prevention, and building sustainable peace. 

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in October 2000. It broke new ground by enshrining four important issues: 

1. Women’s participation in peace processes
2. Women’s right to protection from violence and abuse
3. Strengthening women’s rights under national law and supporting local women’s peace initiatives and conflict-resolution processes. 
4. Considering the specific needs of women and girls in relief and recovery measures 

Two decades later, women’s involvement in peace processes has improved. There are more references to women in peace agreements, gender expertise is increasingly included in mediation support and women’s organisations are consulted in peace talks and agreements. 

The reality in areas affected by conflict, however, is still very challenging. Current threats to peace and security are more pressing and complex than ever. The number of people in need of assistance has tripled over the past decade, and according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, 1 in 33 people will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2021. Traditional conflicts are aggravated by new threats, such as climate and health shocks and the escalating violence of extremist groups, much of which directly targets women. 

The Covid-19 pandemic and measures to contain it have disproportionally exposed women and girls to conflict-related sexual violence and increased survivors’ vulnerability. All these concerns have impeded global commitments to gender equality, which will have a knock-on effect on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Lack of accountability limits progress

We have a 20-year track record in peacebuilding, including efforts to resolve conflicts, prevent escalation and restore social and political institutions. Many of the knowledge and capacity gaps that the UN system and national authorities face when it comes to gender, peace and security and combatting conflict-related sexual violence, are clearly aligned with our mandate and strategy to ensure rapid expert deployment and capacity building. 

We had a total of seven experts working on these issues in 2020. Two have been on mission in Colombia, one each in Lebanon and Nigeria and one with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The last two experts have support to the African Union’s FemWise project and worked on mainstreaming gender, peace and security in the international security and stabilisation support strategy with the UN Stabilisation Mission’s support unit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.   

Lena Kvarving worked with the OSCE’s gender issues programme. She found that lack of accountability was a major obstacle to implementing its gender, peace and security agenda. There was also a lack of will and ability among leaders to push through the necessary changes, and the subject tended to be dismissed as a “soft” security issue. 

Kvarving conducted capacity-building sessions, distributed research material at conferences and roundtables and supported the leadership on these issues. 

“As a result of these efforts, I have observed changes in the way leadership uses the planning tools that OSCE has developed for their gender work,” she says. “I’ve also received positive feedback from the high-level planning group, where gender is increasingly included in analysis and other documents.”

Capacity building vital to women’s representation

The Covid-19 pandemic made programming and reaching the most vulnerable women and girls in Nigeria significantly more complicated. Inadequate support from the federal and state governments was also a persistent challenge. 

Tendai Tavagadza was deployed to UN Women as a policy adviser, to improve the synergies and impact of the agency’s interventions on gender, peace and security in the north-east of the country and the Niger delta. She also helped to strengthen women’s representation, engagement and participation in formal and informal peace building efforts. She did so by setting up meetings for women’s organisations to discuss experiences and lessons learned and establishing an umbrella body for them. 

“The advancement of UN resolution 1325 is pertinent, particularly during this transition phase in north-east Nigeria, to ensure gender-responsiveness in all plans, processes and interventions,” she says. “Evidence from other conflict and post-conflict settings across Africa demonstrates that building a critical mass of women who have skills in conflict resolution, advocacy and peacebuilding helps toward asserting the women’s space and participation.” 

Tavagadza also provided advice to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and helped to strengthen gender mainstreaming in security sector institutions, including the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. She also set up a national forum for female personnel in these institutions. 

Pandemic escalated protection needs

The Covid-19 pandemic reduced women’s participation in decision-making bodies in Colombia, mainly because of greater family responsibilities at home. Gender-based violence also increased during the country’s lockdowns.  

We had two experts working in Colombia in 2020, supporting UN Women and the UN Verification Mission, one of whom was Tatiana Aguilera Fernandez, a gender officer. She provided the UN Verification Mission with analysis about women and girls and gender issues related to their reinsertion into society, protection and security. 

She also advocated for and contributed to putting in place protection measures for female former combatants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and their families, and helped develop an action plan to ensure better access to justice, as well as improve the gender capacity in all responsible state entities.  Finally, the expert developed and ran training courses and webinars and gave advice and recommendations to the verification teams on engagement and coordination with women’s organisations locally and nationally. 

Advancing the agenda in 2021

Building on our efforts and experiences in 2020, we intend to play a key role as a strategic partner to research institutions, UN agencies and mandated entities at the national, regional and global level to strengthen their capacity to implement the gender, peace and security agenda and combat conflict-related sexual violence.  

Leadership commitment to these issues is often tokenistic and can be challenging to turn into action, particularly in male-dominated security sector organisations and complex multidimensional environments. 

We need to work on several fronts to achieve change, including the provision of practical training, clear examples of the consequences of not addressing the issues at hand, and personal coaching for senior civilian, military and police leaders. 

A new project established in January 2021 will advise the Norwegian Permanent Mission to the UN on these matters during Norway’s Security Council membership in 2021-2022. It will also develop UN peacekeeping training on the prevention of and response to conflict-related sexual violence in partnership with the UN Department of Peace Operations. The training is a follow-up to the UN handbook on conflict-related sexual violence, which was published in May 2020. 

The project will team up with Norwegian and international institutes, to conduct research on peacekeeping and sexual violence in conflict, and to make sure training sessions and materials are up to date. 

 “Conflict-related sexual violence continues to devastate the lives of civilians in conflict zones, tearing the social fabric of entire communities. UN peacekeeping missions are mandated to prevent and respond to sexual violence yet are facing capacity challenges in environments like the Central African Republic, DR Congo, Mali and South Sudan. Supporting the UN Department of Peace Operations on capacity building of civilian, military and police peacekeepers aims to strengthen the operational effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions, so that sexual violence can be combatted on several levels, saving and rebuilding the lives of innocent civilians”, says Lotte Vermeij, NORCAP’s senior expert on sexual violence in conflict.

NORCAP deploys experts on demand to the UN, regional organisations and national governments, and we work with our partners to initiate new projects and strengthen local, national and regional capacity in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors.

If your office or organisation would like to discuss how our experts might support and improve your work, please get in touch by writing to norcap@nrc.no.  

Would you like to join our team?  

The recruitment of highly qualified and motivated experts is vital for us to maintain our position as a responsive and trustworthy strategic partner. We recruit experts several times a year, and our members are diverse in terms of nationality, language skills and gender.

More information about requirements for applicants and opportunities with us can be found on here.

Donors  

We have worked closely with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA) to strengthen humanitarian response capacities since 1991. NFMA has provided financial support via framework partnership agreements since 2009 and the current strategic partnership agreement, which includes additional funds for emergency situations.  

We also receive resources from the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the European Economic Area (EEA) Grants,  the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), various UN agencies,  the US Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and Food for Peace programme, the World Bank and others. Some deployments are cost shared or fully funded by the hosting organisation.  

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), formerly the Department for International Development (DFID) has supported us since 2012 and continued to fund a range of interventions in emergency settings, including CashCap activities, in 2020.  

NMFA and BHA provided funds in 2019 and 2020 for the scale-up of our thematic project on strengthening responses against gender- based violence (GBV) through the Regional Emergency GBV Adviser mechanism. BHA and Food for Peace have supported us with funds for coordination since 2016. 

The CashCap project worked closely with and received funding from BHA, ECHO, FCDO, Food for Peace, the German Federal Foreign Office, NMFA, SDC and SIDA in 2020.   

Canada, ECHO, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US provided funds for ACAPS in 2019 and 2020. OCHA funds the operation of ProCap and GenCap.