USING HUMANITARIAN POOLED FUNDS FOR COORDINATED MINE ACTION

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) manages two types of pooled funds to support coordinated humanitarian action: the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the country-based pooled funds.

These funds can be used for mine action projects as long as they are prioritized by the Humanitarian Coordinator in the humanitarian response strategy.  NGOs can receive funds from  country-based pooled funds directly and from the CERF indirectly through UN agencies. In 2019,  UNMAS and four local NGOs implemented risk education and victim assistance activities in Colombia with a CERF grant (see presentation below). The CERF allocates approximately USD450 million annually and the priorities of the CERF manager are particularly relevant to mine action: support for women and girls, programmes targeting persons with disability, education in protracted emergencies, and other elements of protection. In August 2020, the global MA AoR facilitated a briefing on CERF focused on the upcoming allocations for underfunded emergencies such as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Nigeria and Yemen . The presentations delivered are accessible below as well as the pooled funds handbooks.

CERF Handbook

CBPF Handbook

CERF Life-Saving Criteria 2020

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2020