Eligibility

Eligible Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund (SCHF) recipients include Syrian and international NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movements and UN agencies. One of the Fund’s key objectives has been to maximize engagement with Syrian NGOs (local, national and diaspora NGOs) to ensure better access to the people in need, especially in Northern Syria. As a result, over the past few years, the SCHF has grown into a critical funding mechanism for Syrian NGOs with a large part of its funding allocated to local partners.

Interested NGOs participate in a three-step eligibility assessment process to become SCHF partners and apply for funding under the SCHF allocations:

1. Registration
2. Due Diligence (DD)
3. Capacity Assessment (CA)

The eligibility process is applicable to all humanitarian actors who are willing to become a Country Based Pooled Fund (CBPF) partner, except UN agencies. The outcome of the capacity assessment determines whether a partner is eligible to the Fund, as well as the partner’s risk level. Risk level is a dynamic rating that can change over time based on the partner’s performance as a SCHF grantee, which is assessed regularly. Such assessments can trigger changes in the risk level (High, Medium, Low).