
Introduction These Global Guidelines aim to ensure a coherent and harmonised approach to the governance and operations of Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs). These Global Guidelines set out...
The Eastern and Southern Africa Humanitarian Fund (ESA HF) is one of OCHA’s newest Regional Humanitarian Pooled Funds. It was established in 2024, with an initial Country Envelope in Mozambique. The Fund is operationally managed by a Humanitarian Financing Unit based in Nairobi.
The Regional Humanitarian Pooled Fund provide a flexible and cost-effective way to expand pooled funding to more countries, with modalities that are scalable to needs on the ground. Starting in Mozambique, funding is directed when and where most urgently needed for localized and sustainable humanitarian action. With climate change leading to increasingly frequent and unpredictable natural disasters, it is important to have a modality that allows donors to contribute resources in an agile way to countries like Mozambique at the forefront of the global climate crisis. Like all CBPFs, the ESA HF is designed to complement other humanitarian funding sources, such as bilateral funding and the Central Emergency Response Fund.
ESA HF builds on the success of the CBPFs and mirror many of their practices. It operates in line with the CBPF global guidelines and is governed by the same protocols. The Fund can include both Regional and Country Envelopes as appropriate to the needs and disaster profile of the region and available funding. While the Fund opened with a Country Envelope for Mozambique initially, it can include:
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Manual and GuidelineIntroduction These Global Guidelines aim to ensure a coherent and harmonised approach to the governance and operations of Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs). These Global Guidelines set out...