About oPt Humanitarian Fund

The emergency pooled fund for the oPt, the oPt Humanitarian Fund (oPt HF), is primarily aligned to support the delivery of strategic humanitarian response identified under Humanitarian Response Plan while retaining the flexibility to allocate funds to unforeseen events or special requirements. The fund is driving funding to needs-based priority sectors and geographic areas. The oPt HF has the following main objectives:

Support life-saving and life-sustaining activities while filling critical funding gaps;

Promote needs-based assistance in accordance with humanitarian principles;

Strengthen coordination and leadership primarily through the function of the HC and by leveraging the cluster system;

Improve the relevance and coherence of humanitarian response by strategically funding priorities as identified under the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP);

Expand the delivery of assistance in hard-to-reach areas by partnering with national and international NGOs.

Further, the oPt HF aims to ensure that humanitarian needs are addressed in a collaborative manner, fostering cooperation and coordination within and between clusters and humanitarian organizations. As such, the oPt HF contributes to improving needs assessments, enhancing the HRP as the strategic planning document for humanitarian action, strengthening coordination mechanisms, in particular the cluster system, and improving accountability through an enhanced monitoring and reporting framework. Interventions supported by the oPt HF are to be consistent with the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.

The oPt HF is managed by OCHA on behalf of the Humanitarian Coordinator with the support the Review Board. In addition, an Advisory Board provides general policy and strategy guidance on the overall oPt HF process and priorities. Members of the oPt HF Advisory Board include the donors to the fund and representatives of national and international NGOs and UN agencies.