Andreas Chief Advisor MFA Denmark reminds #GrandBargain that whilst we focus a lot on technocratic improvements to humanitarian mechanisms, political will is a significant constraint to humanitarian reform & localisation. GB needs to pay more attention to unlocking political will

Michael Kohler, Ambassador, reminds #GrandBargain that in football far more goals are scored in the second half. The Grand Bargain only made modest progress in accelerating localisation, participation and quality finding so far, but as we enter the closing stages, let's hurry up

At #GrandBargain annual meeting Christian Aid starts to mine, analyse + share more granular data on our progress against different components of flexible + quallity funding to better understand where we need to do better and track our progress over time alongside Charter4Change

Christian Aid assessment of progress against Charter4Change characteristics of flexible quality funding for #GrandBargain shows CAid give more flex multiyear funds to large strong local partners. If flex funding enables quality programming, we shld avail it to smaller actors too

Ambassador Jemilah Mahmood summarises some of key takeaways of #GrandBargain meeting include need to rally together to strengthen Nat Ref Grps and for donors to further advance coordination and risk-sharing + need to find better wwys to make politicians feel good

Ambassador Michael Kohler senses support to extend #GrandBargain after 2026 but we need more clarity soon how it should change + calls upon aid agencies to finally put deeds to our words not least on cash, equitable partnerships, exit strategies, shifting power & data tracking

Tom Fletcher tells #GrandBargain lower public support 4 humanitarians doesn't mean people are less kind - they have lost confidence in our delivery mechanisms. And while all actors tell Tom to support localisation, all also feel they are best channel for localisation funding

Mila Leonova Ukraine National Reference Group tells #GrandBargain we need to shift power in the GB so National Reference Groups are at the centre, put local actors in the driving seat, build on local solutions, support mutual aid and promote a more pluralist humanitarian system

Many people said it was the best Grand Bargain meeting because we gave more airtime to our passionate friends from the South like Angelina from Hope Restoration South Sudan Sudhanshu from Humanitarian Aid International Mila from ГРОМАДСЬКА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ «UNIA» Nanette from Ecoweb and many more - thanks for inspiring us

Lucy Puentes Start Network worries that those who are in charge of resetting the humanitarian system are those who hold most power in the status quo and therefore conceivably have the least incentive to deliver transformative change

Astonishing revelations from key humanitarian sector luminaries at the Start annual meeting in Reading. What goes in Reading stays in Reading.

Important #StartNetwork discussion on the immense challenges facing IHL in Gaza - great to hear inspiring christianaid and Oxfam Gaza partner telling us more about the disastrous humanitarian situation there & heroic work of Palestinian local actors in impossible conditions

Local leaders at Start Network Assembly express concern signatories to Charter4Change Grand Bargain & #PledgeForChange have made too little progress implementing their commitments: we shld practice what we preach + call for scale up of due diligence passporting 2 reduce burdens

At end of Start Network Assembly Start leaders reflect on Start's journey from a pub to 11 hubs and stress the importance of flipping the script, creating the conditions for harmony to prevail, and knowing our limitations and what we do best

Halima #OXFAM tells #AIDEX international humanitarian actors could do a lot more to recognise and include important contribution of diasporas to humanitarian agenda which sometimes faith-based humanitarian organisations are better-placed to engage with

Good to be part of reset/localisation panel at Aide garcia with British Red Cross 🧡 Charter4Change World Food Programme CHIDDO South Sudan Norad promoting more support for mutual aid, sclr ICR-sharing,DDP, more diversity/pluralism in donor funding + more listening to local partner asks + feedback

Good to join at John Ede of Charter4Change panel at AidEx Events on financing localisation to share financing approaches christianaid is using including sclr, locally-led anticipatory action, locally-led pooled funds, Assess and Assist and Start Network Start Ready

Good to be part of strong christianaid team AidEx Events energetically spreading the word to Geneva humanitarian community about people-centred Christian Aid programming modalities eg sclr, locally-led anticipatory action + locally-led cash hoping to encourage peers to replicate