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Humanitarian Aid
DG ECHO publishes the "Minimum Environmental Requirements and Recommendations" document
The commitment to reducing the environmental footprint of humanitarian aid now guides DG ECHO’s own actions and cooperation with partners. DG ECHO will apply a ‘mainstreaming’ approach, meaning that environmental impacts should be mitigated across projects, programmes and eventually, the organisations themselves to the extent possible.
As one of the key outputs of DG ECHO’s approach to reducing the environmental footprint of humanitarian aid, DG ECHO, together with its partners, has developed project-level minimum environmental requirements for partners, covering priority areas.
The reults have been published in the document "Minimum Environmental Requirements and Recommendations"
The document tackles actions purely related to the project level, however the minimum environmental requirements are intended to signal to partners which measures DG ECHO will be looking for in project proposals and project monitoring due to their immediate potential to reduce the environmental impact of humanitarian aid.
They are called “minimum” environmental requirements and recommendations because DG ECHO expects these measures to be reflected in project proposals in the applicable contexts as a minimum.
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Humanitarian Aid
DG ECHO New Cash Transfer policy
The new policy document summarises the position of the DG ECHO on the use of cash transfers in responding to humanitarian needs and presents operational guidance setting out DG ECHO’s expectations in the field of humanitarian cash assistance.
Development Cooperation
NDICI - Global Europe - Information conference
DG INTPA - Unit D.3 - organised a conference where some relevant aspects of the NDICI - Global Europe instrument have been explained.
Development Cooperation
The European Commission and the results based financing (RBF)
The European Commission has shown a long-standing interest in RBF approaches. In late 2019, the Center for Global Development ntered in a research partnership with DG INTPA to develop operational guidelines for the use of results-based financing.
Humanitarian Aid
DG ECHO Resilience Marker Guidelines
DG ECHO just published the General Guidelines for Resilinece Marker containining explanations and examples on how to assess and include resilnece in humanitarian actions.