For donors & funders
The fastest, most accountable way to move aid inside Sudan
Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms are already feeding, treating and evacuating their own neighbourhoods. They do not need to be built — they need to be funded, and they document every pound they spend. Pledge today and your money is on a stove within days.
Days, not months
from transfer to a hot meal served
Front-line access
in areas most agencies cannot reach
Line-by-line ledgers
receipts, allocations and variance on record
Your money lands where the crisis is
Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) are neighbourhood committees of Sudanese volunteers who kept communal kitchens, clinics, water points and evacuation routes running after April 2023, when most international agencies could not reach the front lines. Each room is chosen locally, keeps its own ledger, and coordinates horizontally with neighbouring rooms and state councils rather than reporting up to a distant head office.
Funding a room is funding the people who live on the street being served. Access is negotiated through relationships, not convoys — which is why deliveries continue when the map turns red.
A shorter chain means more impact per dollar
Traditional humanitarian funding travels through several layers — donor, international NGO, national partner, then community — and each layer takes overhead and time. Mutual aid rooms compress that chain: a transfer usually reaches a kitchen or clinic within days, and the overhead share stays low because volunteers are unsalaried or minimally stipended.
Governance you can inspect
Each room documents who holds which role, how spending is approved, and how disputes are resolved. Roles rotate, two signatories approve disbursements, and procurement decisions are minuted. Our public network directory lists active rooms and councils by region, so you can verify that the entity in front of you is recognised by its peers before a single dollar moves.
Reporting that survives volunteer turnover
Volunteer turnover is the biggest risk to a grassroots network — knowledge leaves with people. Our archive keeps field reports, negotiation notes and lessons learned as searchable bilingual records, and the academy turns those lessons into training tracks so a new coordinator inherits practice, not rumours. Your grant is documented the same way, and the record outlives the people who wrote it.
What to ask before you give
Ask for the room's grant ledger: funds received, how they were allocated across kitchens, health, water and logistics, and what was actually spent against each line. Ask for receipts and the variance between plan and spend. Ask which rooms vouch for this one, and what happened the last time a delivery failed. Rooms in this network keep budget records, allocation plans, expense ledgers and receipt files for exactly these questions — and share them with funders under review.
What a pledge covers
$500 / month
Keeps a communal kitchen serving daily meals to a displaced block.
$2,500 / month
Stocks a neighbourhood clinic and covers emergency medical referrals.
$10,000+ / quarter
Funds a multi-room programme with a named coordinator and quarterly audited reporting.
Figures are indicative planning ranges agreed with participating rooms; every pledge is matched to a specific room and reported against its own ledger.
Donor FAQ
Governance, vetting and how to check what we publish.
- Who governs an Emergency Response Room, and who signs off on spending?
- Each room is led by a locally chosen committee with named, rotating roles — coordination, finance, procurement, health, kitchens and logistics. Disbursements require two signatories, procurement decisions are minuted, and each room publishes its role register to the network. Rooms answer horizontally to their state-level council and to neighbouring rooms, not to a central head office.
- How are rooms vetted before they join the network?
- A room is admitted only when existing rooms in its region vouch for it, it can show a functioning service (kitchen, clinic, water point or evacuation line), and it commits to keeping a ledger with receipts. New entrants are listed as active in the public directory only after that peer confirmation, and listings are reviewed when a room goes dormant or a complaint is raised.
- What happens if funds are misused or a delivery fails?
- Failures are written up rather than buried: the room records what happened, the financial impact and the corrective step, and that record enters the institutional memory archive. Funding to an implicated room is paused pending a peer review by its council, and a funder under a live grant receives the incident note and the reconciled ledger.
- What financial documentation can I request as a donor?
- Funds received, the allocation plan across kitchens, health, water and logistics, the expense ledger line by line, scanned receipts, and the variance between plan and actual spend. Rooms maintain these records continuously in the Hub's budget module and share them with funders under review or on an agreed reporting cycle.
- How do I verify ERR resources and claims independently?
- Everything customer-facing on this Hub is open: the network directory lists active rooms and councils by region, the archive holds field reports and lessons learned, the academy shows the training each coordinator receives, and the projects page lists what is currently seeking support. Cross-check a room's directory entry against its project pages and archive records, then ask the room directly for the ledger behind them.
- Can I restrict my funding to a specific room or sector?
- Yes. Pledges can be earmarked to a named room, a sector such as kitchens or maternal health, or a geographic area, and the reporting follows that earmark. Unrestricted pledges are the most useful in a fast-moving conflict, because councils can shift resources to whichever rooms lose access or absorb a new displacement wave.
Ready to pledge?
Tell us the amount, the timeframe and the reporting you need. We will match you to a vetted response room and send its governance record and latest ledger within five working days.