GPE GLOBAL LEVEL CONSULTATION

The Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE) is a programme through which Elrha aims to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises. It will do so by enabling the humanitarian community to target global, regional, national and local humanitarian research and innovation capabilities, and resources, to the most pressing problems.

With the financial support of the governments of the UK and the Netherlands, the GPE will:

• provide updated and in-depth mapping of humanitarian research and innovation activity (investments and initiatives);
• undertake a separate global and regional consultation process to identify priorities for humanitarian innovation and research;
• roll out further communication and engagement processes to build involvement in and support for strategic coordination and collaboration to maximise the impact of humanitarian research and innovation investments;
• influence the humanitarian community funding priorities to increase the alignment between needs and investments.

We aim to equip donors with the knowledge and tools to fund long-term transformative solutions that address the most pressing humanitarian problems.

To achieve the programme goals, the GPE will drive a strategic approach to research and innovation, working with actors in the humanitarian system to identify and prioritise problems.

In developing the priorities, we will collaborate with global, regional, national and local actors and communities previously or currently affected by humanitarian crisis to ensure efforts are coordinated and positioned to achieve maximum uptake and impact. The priorities these consultations will produce will not only focus on the shared needs but also draw on differences between various locations, crisis contexts, groups, themes and clusters.

PURPOSE

Guided in part by the results of the updated phase one Global Mapping Report, and the Regional and National Consultation, the Global Consultation will provide a qualitative complement to the GPE by consulting with donors and key stakeholders in humanitarian research, humanitarian innovation and in humanitarian operational agencies, to identify priorities (that are strategic and impactful) for humanitarian research and innovation. The consultation audience can include, but is not limited to: donors, government bodies that fund humanitarian research and innovation, cluster leads, INGOs, academic institutions, and innovation hubs.

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of the Global Consultation is to:

• identify and map global humanitarian research and innovation needs and priorities, exploring any disconnects identified by the 2021 Global Mapping Report;
• identify examples and evidence of good humanitarian research and innovation spend within the humanitarian ecosystem;
• identify opportunities for more strategic investment for impactful humanitarian research and innovation spend.

KEY ACTIVITIES

The Consultation will generate one global report and annexes to identify priorities, challenges, and examples of opportunities for improved investment strategies for humanitarian research and innovation. The report should try to:

• identify Humanitarian research and innovation priorities;
• explore the sector barriers to priority and investment alignment;
• identify the sector opportunities to align and improve the relationship between priorities, investments, and outcomes;
• Identifying examples of possible synergies with the other relevant sector research (e.g. State of the Humanitarian System by ALNAP).

TIMELINE

We expect the work can begin immediately following contracting. Work should be completed by June 2022, however, may finish earlier dependent on the engagement plan/timings.

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Please note that payment is linked to satisfactory completion of the activities set out in this invitation to tender.