Exploring the impact of channelling unrestricted funding to NNGOs in emergency contexts — Street Child

Street Child, in our latest initiative to advance the localisation agenda, has been working with Save the Children Denmark over the last year to research into innovative methods to supporting local organisations in emergency settings. You are warmly invited to learn all about this at our upcoming live event on Tuesday 9 March at 13:00 GMT.

Join us to discuss the key findings and recommendations and hear directly from the local and national non-governmental organisations (L/NNGOs) that were involved in the study on why the humanitarian sector has to evolve and how it can.

The Event:

• Hosted By: Save the Children Denmark and Street Child

• Speakers: Samaj Kalyan Unnayan Shangstha (SKUS) from Bangladesh, Muhammad Kabir (Hallmark Leadership Initiative) from Nigeria, Mohammad Khajazada (CRDSA) from Afghanistan, Evelyn Nojang (MWDA) from Cameroon, and Street Child.

• Agenda

  • Introductions & Situational Overview (Save the Children Denmark)

  • Study Overview (Street Child)

  • Reflections for participating L/NNGOs (Local Organisations from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cameroon and Nigeria)

  • Key findings & Recommendations (Street Child)

  • Q&A

The Report:

The impetus for advancing solutions towards local leadership, dispelling the risk narrative and as a result increasing L/NNGOs’ potential to access unrestricted institutional funding has never been greater. Despite this, research and evidence in this area is limited.

In direct response to this, Save the Children Denmark, in partnership with Street Child, piloted a study in 2020 aimed at improving knowledge and the evidence base for how L/NNGOs use unrestricted funds when available.  This study, funding by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark focused on three research aims:

• Advance understanding of how L/NNGOs spend unrestricted funding;

•  Explore in what ways unrestricted funding influences access to further funding;

• Draw on findings to share recommendations for funding L/NNGOs.

The project provided unrestricted grants of $15,000 USD to six randomly selected national organisations, without previous connection to or relationship with Save or Street Child. The project took place in six different education in emergency contexts; Bangladesh, DRC, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Mozambique.

The full research report can be found here.