The Humanitarian Actors Platform (HAP) is a platform of non-governmental organizations working in Kurigram District aiming to foster humanitarian assistance in emergency. It was founded in February 2018 by the merger of Empowering Local and National Humanitarian Actors (ELNHA) supported by MJSKS and Oxfam in Bangladesh. The mission of HAP Platform is to "improve the effectiveness and impact of assistance to people and communities vulnerable to risk and affected by disaster, conflict or poverty as well as enhance capacities of member’s organizations to represent voices towards localization and accountable partnership.

HAP is a network of local actors actively engaged on localization process, to get included in the process, that we have seen systematic exclusion and discrimination against meaningful participation of a diversity of local actors in many of these processes. The local actors do not want to remain passive beneficiaries of a change process, rather want to have equal stake, ownership, shared leadership and representation across all the processes and the discussion agenda. We, as one of the committed network of local actors, firmly believe that the signatories are genuinely interested to deliver on the Grand Bargain commitments by overcoming the barriers to harvest better outcomes. In the journey of HAP frameworks of localization for institutionalizing local level humanitarian actions was emerged

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the ELNHA HRGF is to create the opportunity for local and national non-governmental organizations (LNGOs) to demonstrate that they can design and deliver quality response programs, draft proposals and demonstrate quality fund management and financial accountability.

• The HRGF is envisaged to fund LNGOs in the districts of the ELNHA project, to exercise
• leadership in their humanitarian response, when a crisis hits. The Facility is designed to promote leadership by local and national actors, by providing the opportunity to access funding to:
• Strengthen capacity to independently design and implement quality responses (according to minimum standards), conduct needs assessments, design project proposals, manage funds, monitor and evaluate, and meet reporting compliance;
• Demonstrate capacity to independently design and manage quality response programs,with the aim to increase access to other sources of funding directly (international or national) – for the same response and/or for future responses;
• Provide learning to donors on how to design funding modalities that best meet the objective of improved quality of responses through leadership of local actors.

• To strengthen the capacity of members organization promote and sharing their best practices among them aiming to institutionalize its overall development.
• To support and encourage local actors and inclusion of local responders in the implementing process for better service delivery.
• Tto support HAP members  in applying the Humanitarian Standard by providing training, advice and policy frame works.
• To communicate, advocate, promote interventions  remove barriers to develop partnership with local responders
• To monitor and report on the implementation of the Humanitarian Standard and assist members in finding solutions where necessary.
• To strengthening collective voices, shared experiences, knowledge’s and expertise.
• Considers “Localization” as a key to an effective humanitarian operation and play a crucial role in the effective, efficient and culturally appropriate delivery of humanitarian assistance in emergency.
• To make greater use of funding tools, such as develop pooled funds by local Actors/responders.
• To make local: decentralize and localize of actions.
• Ensure practical Information is disseminated regularly to members on diverse topics of practical relevance, such as, strategic management, networking, sharing resources.
• Develop and implement a Humanitarian Quality Management System;
• Provide key information about quality management to key stakeholders;
• enable beneficiaries and their representatives to participate in programme decisions;
• determine the competencies and development needs of staffs;
• establish and implement a complaints-handling procedure;
• establish a process of continual improvement
• Sexual exploitation and abuse