C The Cash Learning Partnership THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CASH REPORT 6.2 S trengthen common platforms for building, sharing and using knowledge about CTP. [GFA 6.4 & 6.5] — All actors working on CTP should make use of and support common platforms to contribute to and benefit from the best available knowledge. Common platforms should promote existing knowledge in easily accessible, practical ways, and help to apply it through best practice tools and guides. They should help actors to coordinate research activities by maintaining an overview of the existing evidence base. — Governments, agencies, donors and others should actively share their experiences of CTP through common platforms, including lessons drawn from positive and negative experiences. 6.3 Invest in innovation to achieve more for beneficiaries. [GFA 6.2] — CTP should be used as a catalyst for innovation, with a focus on better achieving humanitarian objectives and meeting the needs of beneficiaries. New partnerships with the private sector can enable significant scale-up. New technologies can generate efficiencies for beneficiaries and implementing agencies alike, creating new solutions to old problems. — There is a need to innovate in how humanitarian aid is organized and funded. New approaches are needed to drive efficiency and effectiveness across established ways of doing business. The increased use of CTP should be associated with reforms that bring about a leaner, more holistic and better-connected humanitarian response. New funding models are needed to fund the core capacities required for humanitarian action. 99