Letter to ERC Fletcher: requests for reforms by doners

21 donors have shared a letter with UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on the “humanitarian reset” and on which kind of reforms are urgent from their view in light of the end of USAID and overall drastically shrinking humanitarian funding.

The letter has been initiated by the so-called “Stockholm group”, an informal top donor forum widely unknown while quite influential (see CHA paper “Influencer Europe” page 19), with Germany and Sweden leading on the letter’s outline. Donor asks go well beyond what has been agreed so far on the UN side and in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and it will be interesting to see how consequently governments will follow up or incentivize their requests for more substantial reform.    

Suggestions for bolder action in line with Humanitarian Reset