Nepal Rapid Response Fund (RRF).

The Rapid Response Fund (RRF) concept recognises that in a conflict situation you need to act quickly and that people on the ground have the best knowledge of how and where money needs to be spent. With this in mind, the RRF was set-up to provide local committees with money which they could spend without prior approval by a donor. This approach eliminates the delay of requesting funds from overseas funders and gives committees, made up of well-informed and capable local people, executive decision making over conflict interventions.

The Nepal Rapid Response Fund (RRF) was set up in March 2007 bringing together Nepalese civil society organisations working in areas most at risk from renewed conflict. The RRF works round the clock to respond to conflict outbreaks, consolidate Nepal’s 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and give Nepalese communities a chance of a conflict free future.

The RRF is made up of two organisations, Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC), Youth Alliance for Peace and Environment (YAPE). Together they develop immediate responses to outbreaks of violence while training their communities to deal effectively with their own conflicts. A third organisation, SAATHI, contributed to the first phase of the fund.