What is it about?
After estimating the humanitarian WASH sector response budget, the coordination platform should ensure funds are mobilised to cover it with:
- Advocating for pre-positioning of funds to the WASH response;
- Supporting partner's proposal writing efforts and coordination;
- Monitoring of funds to ensure they are sufficient and corresponds to strategic priorities
- Analysing funding data and address any funding gap through advocacy with donors.
More and more emergency WASH funds are allocated through centralized mechanisms such as Central Emergency Response Funds (CERF) and Country Based Pool Funds (CBPF) and disbursed through OCHA, who facilitate sector funding coordination and tracking. However a proportion of WASH partners’ funding comes from other sources, such as bilateral funding by donors, or aid organizations’ internal funding sources. Non-centralized funding represents a challenge for Humanitarian WASH National Coordination Platforms as they are not consulted or sometimes even informed of this funding stream, decreasing the accuracy of funding monitoring and gap analysis.
Resources to be mobilized for the response are not only related to funding, but also concern WASH human resources, operational and logistic capacity etc. These are developed in the WASH capacity mapping chapter.
What are the objectives?
- To ensure that the WASH component of the flash appeal and/or humanitarian response plans, are well-funded, that funds are allocated to priority activities and to raise the visibility/profile of a crisis.
- To anticipate on response funding gaps and advocate to fill those gaps
- To maintain an on-going dialogue with donors on the evolution of WASH needs, results achieved and funding received.
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