Our Charter4Change Commitments

CBM Global has a strong partner-based approach and a long-standing commitment to channel the majority of humanitarian and development funding through national and local organisations.

In 2025, CBM Global continued to prioritise direct funding to local and national partners, with 75% of humanitarian funding channelled through national and local organisations, reinforcing locally led responses.

This commitment calls upon agencies to endorse and go beyond the UN/NGO Principles of Partnership (Equality, Transparency, Results-Oriented Approach, Responsibility and Complementarity) by establishing clear systems and processes to action these in our agencies and with our local partners. 

These principles align perfectly with CBM Global’s partnership principles and approach. We strengthened partnership quality through structured feedback mechanisms. In 2025, CBM Global conducted its second partner feedback exercise, receiving feedback from 88 partners, which informed five organisational commitments to improve accountability, learning and partnership effectiveness. 

In 2025, a total of €2.69 million humanitarian expenditure was incurred by CBM Global local and national humanitarian partners. These are published through our annual reports. While internal systems track funding flows, we are exploring further steps to strengthen public transparency and further publicize our implementing partners. 

CBM Global continues to support HR practices that pursue open and fair recruitment processes. While quite rare, when partner staff do apply for CBM Global open positions in their respective countries, CBM Global requires the partner organisation to be informed and, if the candidate is successful, to agree on any mitigation measures to ensure the smooth functioning of the partner organisation.

We continue to advocate to institutional donors to increase funding to local actors and embed localisation in funding criteria and partnership frameworks. For example, CBM Australia has been working with DFAT on this commitment in international development and CBM Switzerland works with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC’) localisation working group.  

The Australia government under its DFAT- Australia international development policy maintains localisation commitments and tracks progress for reporting in 2026. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) defined Locally Led Cooperation (LLC) in 2025, with a goal to demonstrate and measure progress between 2025 and 2028. SDC introduced explicit localisation metrics through three indicators: increased direct and core funding to local actors, and contractual requirements promoting equitable partnerships. Progress is monitored through funding shares and partnership quality indicators, incentivising predictable financing, shared decision-making, and stronger local leadership, with results reported annually. These measures align donor expectations with localisation outcomes and accountability 

In 2025, CBM Global updated its partner assessment process and ensures that this process captures clear strengths that CBM Global and partners both bring in pursuit of common objectives. This is practically applied during the project management cycle where the roles of partner and sub partner are formalised. Through the 2025 partners feedback exercise, CBM Global has prioritised to engage partners very early in the project ideation phase.  

In 2025, CBM Global invested in both humanitarian capacity strengthening and broader organisational development, including targeted support to local partners and OPDs. Our small grants initiative included 19 partners directly engaged in disaster risk management and humanitarian action. Additionally, a total of €61, 963  was spent explicitly on humanitarian capacity strengthening.

We conducted two real time evaluations in the Philippines and Indonesia, and they serve as important institutional learning mechanisms for both CBM Global and our partners 

We ensure that the contributions of local partners are recognised in reporting and communications, promoting visibility of locally led action.