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Common Humanitarian Fund - resources

The United Nations’ coordinated approach to the delivery of humanitarian aid in Sudan has been manifested in the Work Plan for Sudan that encompasses UN Agencies and many NGOs that have participated in a process of nationwide coordination by fourteen sectors and eight planning regions.

Given the existence of this comprehensive Work Plan, a number of donors and UN Organizations have agreed to establish a common fund mechanism - the Common Humanitarian Fund or CHF - for donor contributions to the Work Plan.

The CHF will aim to give the Humanitarian Coordinator greater ability to target funds at the most critical needs, encourage early donor contributions and allow rapid response to unforeseen needs.

• Terms of reference for the Common Humanitarian Fund for Sudan.

A number of online databases give dynamic access to details on Work Plan projects, CHF allocations and Financial Tracking data. The databases can be accessed here.

• Sudan Work plan and CHF online databases guideline

CHF EMERGENCY RESERVE

An emergency reserve is kept within the CHF to enable the Humanitarian Coordinator to respond to unforeseen needs arising outside the CHF Standard Allocation process. The emergency reserve will typically be of no more than 10% of committed funds to the CHF. Find below guidelines and templates for applying for grants from the CHF Emergency Reserve.

• Application Procedure for CHF Emergency Reserve Funding
• CHF Emergency Reserve Application Template

Standard Allocation Mechanism

A number of CHF process related documents are made available here in order to keep partners updated on the process.
The CHF technical unit within OCHA Sudan (jensen7@un.org and kuhn@un.org) should be informed by sector leaders of any CHF allocation meetings at least one week in advance. Meetings will then be included in the meeting schedule and made available on this website.

• 2008 Process Documents [Second allocation round]
• Policy paper for second round of CHF allocations in 2008
• Annexes:
• Timeline for the second round of CHF allocations in 2008
• Revised CHF Standard Allocations model [Second Round]
• Overview of revised CHF Standard Allocations Model [Second Round]
• 2008 Work Plan Regional Sector Funding Status (All Regions)
• 2008 Work Plan Project contributions by sector, organisation, and donor
• 2008 Work Plan mid-year funding check-list
• CHF 2007 No-Cost Extensions: List of Requesting Organizations
• Archive: 2008 CHF First Round Allocation Resources

2008 CHF second round allocations priority reports

2008 CHF Interim progress reporting templates new

• Interim Reporting Guidance Note

2008 CHF Templates and forms

• CHF 2008 Allocation Revision Request Form new
• CHF 2008 No-Cost Extension Request Form new

CHF 2007 Archives

Archived process documents and resources from the 2007 allocation rounds.

• Archive I: 2007 First Round CHF Allocation Resources
• Archive II: 2007 Second Round CHF Allocation Resources
• Archive III: 2007 CHF Support Documents, and templates and forms