Rethink needed on humanitarian funding for national NGOs, now only 0.2 percent of total humanitarian aid

by IRIN News

With humanitarian aid effectiveness high on the agenda of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, there is much talk of how to reform humanitarian financing to make it more inclusive of national NGOs, but risk aversion will slow progress, say analysts.

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