Lessons in Multilateral Effectiveness: Humanitarian Organisations

Rethinking Effective Humanitarian Organisations

In 2022, the global humanitarian system aimed to support 186 million people in need across 63 countries, requiring humanitarian finance of USD 46 billion. Creating effective accountability for humanitarian funding at such a scale, delivered across many of the world’s most  difficult operating contexts, is a perennial challenge. Over recent years, the volume of donor assessments of humanitarian organisations has continued to rise, as funders have sought more and better evidence that their contributions are being used to best effect. "Good performance" in HOs is in question by a shared conviction that the internationalhumanitarian system is not keeping pace with the rapidly growing challenges it faces, and bythe difficulty of translating humanitarian reform commitments into practical action.

MOPAN's most recent study, Rethinking Effective Humanitarian Organisations, in the series Lesssons in Multilateral Effectiveness, explores what ‘good’ looks like in HOs organisational effectiveness. It explores how HOs can reflect agreed objectives on reform of the international humanitarian system in their own organisations, as it relates to the the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus), accountability to affected populations (AAP) and localisation. It also addresses good practice on managing for results in HOs in challenging environments.