Everyone’s Doing Stuff, but Nobody’s Accountable: Will Grand Bargain 2.0 set us right?

The international humanitarian community is gearing up for a reset of the Grand Bargain. The review is on cue. Over the past couple of decades, new humanitarian reform initiatives have succeeded one another every five years or so. The challenge for negotiators now is to ensure that Grand Bargain 2.0 breaks out of this relentless boom-to-bust reform dynamic and provides a credible pathway to change. Putting people at the centre is acknowledged as essential, yet the prevailing approach to accountability to affected people (AAP) cannot deliver this. There are variations between countries but this report from ODI show that high numbers of affected people do not believe they have much of a say.