Voice Out Loud Issue 17: Humanitarian Donors: Policy and Practice

With humanitarian needs increasing worldwide, NGOs continue to deliver the majority of humanitarian aid to disaster-affected populations. How funding modalities function is crucial to ensuring quality humanitarian aid. Hence the focus of this issue is on institutional humanitarian donors, as a key element in the humanitarian system. However, relationships between donors and the organisations they fund often goes beyond the funding itself; when real partnerships exist, it is very much appreciated by NGOs.