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Build a budget, document or update your strategy, and develop proposals to access emergency funds from the government or donors.
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- Tool 17. RISE Sample Budget Template
- Tool 18. RISE Strategy and Advocacy Template
- Tool 35. Sample Logframe for RISE
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> See Module 3.4 Monitor and Adapt to select indicators, set targets, and plan for monitoring and evaluation.
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Inclusion – Guidance for including a budget line for inclusion Adapted from the IRC Inclusive Client Responsiveness Toolkit (67) Due to the lack of systematic guidance, it is recommended to establish a flexible budget line for accessibility and reasonable accommodation as costs are likely to depend on the context. Dedicated funding is needed to guarantee accessibility and provide reasonable accommodation (See Module 1.3). This is called inclusive budgeting which occurs when an organization allocates funds to enable the removal or mitigation of barriers during the planning phase and promotes participation and targeted activities for people with disabilities. Inclusive budgets should be established at the program level and should include costs for improving accessibility of responsive information services and providing reasonable accommodations. They can include specialized items such as assistive devices, mobility equipment and accessible communications. There is a lack of evidence on budgeting both for accessibility and reasonable accommodation in humanitarian action. Existing guidance from sources such as Help Age, CBM, Handicap International, Light for the World and the Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities advise that accessibility should be planned in advance, funded as 0.5-7% of the total budget, and implemented promptly. To meet the physical accessibility requirements of people with disabilities (for example, when constructing facilities for information desks), it is estimated that the budget should be increased by between 0.5% and 1% overall. To provide specialized non-food items (NFIs) and mobility equipment to people with disabilities, estimates suggest a further 3-4% increase, and up to 7%. The accessibility audit is another opportunity to estimate the cost of addressing barriers and ensure that there is a dedicated budget to implement changes (See Module 2.4.4). |
Guidance on resource mobilization - Adapted from the CDAC How to Guide (68)
Emergency responses where international assistance is requested by a Government are typically guided by a response-wide, coordinated Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) based on a Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). Where no international assistance is requested, the Government will set the response plan. Response plans are used to communicate the scope of the response to affected communities, donors and the wider public, as a key means for resource mobilisation. They are also used for response monitoring, setting out the goals and targets, complemented by indicators. Communication and community engagement needs and plans must be clearly articulated in such documents if they are to be funded and included in a response. The detail of how this will then be implemented should be developed by the national platform though action planning, which should also determine the required resources (human, financial and material) and how success will be measured. This approach supports fundraising through mechanisms like OCHA’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPF).
- Ensure that communication and community engagement is included in any preparedness and contingency planning as well as in the assessment phase, advocating for its inclusion if necessary to ensure that communication and community engagement is strategically included in the overall response plan.
- Advocate for inclusion of appropriate, systematic and coordinated mechanisms for ensuring that crisis-affected people have access to the information that they need in response-wide plans, such as the Humanitarian Response Plan or Joint Response Plan.
- Include your communication and community engagement planning as an explicit element in agency and response-wide plans and budgets, referencing the framework and minimum services and actions for communication and community engagement.