An Act of Faith: Humanitarian Financing and Zakat

GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

Policy Brief
Summary

The aim of this report is to shed some light on the purpose, scale and potential of Zakat for financing humanitarian response. In the absence of reliable or readily available data on Zakat mobilised globally, the report draws on evidence gathered through case studies and existing research to provide an indication of the scale of Zakat’s value and its potential for humanitarian response. It outlines some of the key barriers to increasing humanitarian funding available through Zakat and to improving the way in which it is channelled to support the humanitarian response. It also offers some recommendations for humanitarian donors and agencies, and those responsible for collecting and distributing Zakat, to consider in overcoming these barriers.