ObjectivesFund Objectives
Fund scope
The crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) has left more than 2.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Worrisome is the extent to which conflict and violence not only continue to affect national development but also undermine stability in the region.
As a response to the crisis, members of the international community called for measures that assist the Government of CAR in restoring security, promote recovery, and support national political and reconciliation priorities. The result is Ezingo Fund, a mechanism for financing immediate, integrated, and comprehensive responses that take into account the complex, non-linear, and fractured nature of conflict, peacebuilding, and sustainable development.
Stakeholders of Ezingo can access support for coordinated, coherent, and integrated solutions that combine humanitarian action with innovative development financing from the outset of programming.
Strategic and results framework
The Ezingo Fund creates a space for humanitarian and recovery efforts to address short, medium and long term priorities, which improves the coordination and effectiveness of stabilization and recovery responses.
Fund partners have access to an accountable, transparent, results-oriented, and cost-effective financial instrument for channeling assistance to meet overlapping development priorities. Supported programmes expand collaborative platforms for national and international partners to develop shared visions that usher in the adoption of a robust theory of change that underline programmes designed to address drivers of conflict and structural causes of vulnerability—two essential aspects for building community resilience and reducing the risk of relapse into conflict.
The Fund operates through two distinct assistance windows:
- Immediate impact projects based on the United Nations Secretary General’s Six Point Proposal in support of state authority, reconciliation and mediation, early recovery, and economic revitalization.
- Transitional strategic priorities in the short to medium-terms based on the government emergency programmatic response framework.
Ezingo reduces aid fragmentation and streamlines humanitarian action by strategically providing assistance for interventions that are nationally owned and aligned with government priorities. Furthermore, the Fund relies on a results-based management system for assessing efficiency and effectiveness, which compliments its collective, shared and dynamic approach toward the mitigation and management of contextual, programmatic, and institutional risks.
> $55M 
$55M - $25M
$25M - $5M
< $5M
