Via this Pilot Appeal MEN251, ACT Alliance Iraq Forum Member LWF and ACT Alliance Jordan Forum Member MECC will jointly work towards sustainable peace and development, whilst also addressing humanitarian needs thereby improving each of their individual approaches and enabling the teams to better address multi-faceted challenges in fragile contexts and contexts of protracted conflict.
The document is a result of both field and programmatic interagency coordination efforts, engagement with the ACT Alliance Reference Groups, a joint Iraq and Jordan Inception Workshop, customized technical guidance provided by specialization experts, and assessments that ACT Requesting Members have undertaken individually to refine activities and holistically address fast-changing needs of communities from both Iraq and Jordan as targets groups, with a highlighted focus on adaptation and peacebuilding strategies.
Together, the requesting members will plan, monitor and evaluate their interventions, share feedback and adapt their interventions towards greater contributions to sustainable peace, more coordination, cooperation and collaboration, as well as strategic planning and higher degrees of local ownership.
In order to ensure a continued flow of operations for both requesting members, the first version of MEN251 is being published with a retroactive start date of January 2025.
A revision of this first version of the appeal is planned to start in 3 months by September 2025 following a series of joint monthly cross-country learning sessions to support members technically in the conceptualisation and design of triple-nexus programming and MEAL component development, and will have for change an update of context/approach, an amendment of the needed response budget timeframe from two to three years to ensure continuity and do-no-harm, additional budget assigned for peacebuilding and social cohesion activities, and a changed results framework with more long-term nexus- focused indicators.
The appeal will have a strong focus to inform possible future decision making in relation to the HDP nexus Approach within ACT Alliance’s humanitarian mechanism. The first phase will provide insights into process optimization and operational efficiencies leading to refined workflows, detailed proposal and logical framework, and enhanced productivity. The data collected during the pilot shall help with decisions about the needed interventions, enhancing the likelihood of project success. Joint learning sessions and early stakeholder involvement will improve communication and relationships between different departments, members and partners involved, and multistakeholder discussions will allow the organizations to identify and address potential risks before committing significant resources to longer- term full-scale implementation.
