Aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations relying on funding from the U.K. Department for International Development ensure gender equality is included in the business cases they submit to the agency. Those submitting funding proposals to the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department, meanwhile, take time in assessing how much of their proposed interventions contribute to building resilience.
But what donors require or expect of their partners can’t always be found in paper manuals or electronic documents.
Devex gleaned a few of these more unspoken requirements after a recent conversation with a technical expert for ECHO and a humanitarian adviser for DfID in Sudan. Though both spoke to Sudan's context, it turns out each of the five notes can be applied globally.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
