Complementarity of national, local and international responders is one of the main assets of the humanitarian response on which we build. We take responsibility for building equitable partnerships and promoting greater mutual respect. In our fund manager role, we will strive to ensure the best placed partners - local, national and international NGOs - have access to quality funding as directly as possible to deliver quality principled humanitarian assistance in hard-to-reach locations. As we recognise the reciprocal nature of the relationship between the humanitarian actors, we are committed to invest in fit-for-purpose capacity-sharing to empowering local and national NGO responders to lead and deliver humanitarian aid.

We are accountable to the people we assist, our partners and ourselves. We will take responsibility for our actions and provide means, processes and tools to be held accountable vis-à-vis of our actions, principles and commitments. This means we will ensure that participation of affected communities, through their inputs, feedback and voices, sit at the centre of our action and throughout the project implementation. Our actions will systematically take into account vulnerability and inclusion: the specific needs of the most vulnerable will be prioritised, including those needs and people that are the least visible (g. women and girls, elderly, those affected by disability and, mental health issues).

We will finance organisations able to scale up current operations and offering substantial and relevant technical and geographical complementarities to address the most urgent humanitarian needs of most vulnerable people and allow for a better value-for-money. We will ensure that rigorous value-for-money analysis and assessment- including the identification and managing of cost drivers- is undertaken as part of the scaling up of the humanitarian response and throughout our action.

We will monitor risks, and wherever possible flex and adapt to maintain relevance in rapidly evolving contexts and humanitarian need. The SRF will maintain relevance through proactive anticipation, use foresight analysis in relation to current and emerging crises and combine this with other data sets wherever relevant.

in integrating climate smart approaches and sustainable approaches into the design of their intervention and by greening their operations.

We will work in hard-to-reach places to protect and assist affected populations, targeting selected hot spots of conflict and displacement, as well as striving to assist populations unable to flee. This strategic approach will be based on longer-term strategic anchoring, building acceptance by all stakeholders for our presence and activities and proximity to those in greatest need to ensure that affected people remain at the centre of our operations.

We will support improving data and the evidence base using innovation/technology/digital dimensions in compliance with data protection standards. We will reach out to form partnerships with a range of stakeholders to promote operational action improving the quality of our response, evidence-based advocacy and policy dialogue. We will ensure a common monitoring tool is deployed by all partners and consortium members (P21) and will embrace the joint intersectoral framework, tools and indicators

We recognise that humanitarian crises are becoming increasingly protracted and complex, and we are committed to contributing to sustainable, inclusive and resilient solutions for displaced and crisis-affected populations and host communities. This commitment will be underpinned by the commitment of lead agencies to ensure systematic and meaningful engagement with local stakeholders at the area level, as well as by SRF’s efforts to engage with development actors, build clear synergies, and establish effective referral pathways with their interventions. We will work to ensure that local actors and communities are empowered to strengthen their resilience and capacity to cope with and recover from recurrent and protracted crises. We will also advocate for the international community, governments and international institutions to take and uphold sustainable measures and provide context-specific, locally owned and resilience-oriented solutions that bridge humanitarian, development and longer-term recovery efforts.