Southern NGOs' access to humanitarian funding: a CAFOD policy brief

As a partnership agency, CAFOD is committed to working with sister agencies and southern NGO partners, working with organisations of all faiths and none, to deliver humanitarian aid. Working in partnership is an essential part of CAFOD’s identity and stems from a commitment to recognise all women and men as equal members of one interdependent global community.
This paper provides a brief overview of humanitarian funding sources for southern NGOs. It is the first in a series of documents which CAFOD, together with other Caritas International member organisations will produce in 2013 as part of advocacy aimed at enhancing southern NGOs’ access to international humanitarian financing mechanisms. The definition of southern NGOs encompasses a spectrum of non government organisations from large scale organisations with national reach, budgets comparable to European NGOs and often working beyond national borders, to small locally-based organisations which serve their local community.