Financing for Locally Led Action: Understanding Options, Accelerating Impact (2025)

Localisation is a key priority in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Humanitarian Reset and how this is delivered could profoundly impact the shape of the system and its responsive capabilities. The global humanitarian community has a narrow window of opportunity to ensure that the choices made now do not unravel hard-won progress in advancing localisation. Commissioned and supported by DCA, this paper provides a shared diagnostic framework for funders, intermediaries, and local and national organisations to understand and negotiate where their resources and capabilities can best be deployed to advance financing for localisation.