Local Response Pooled Fund End of Project Evaluation

Local Response Pooled Fund (LRPF) focused on partnering with the communities to lead the change process creating space for participation, collaboration, voice of communities’ and dialogue, ultimately building a relationship of trust where communities take action using available processes and systems. community inclusion is championed seeking collective capacity and improving equity and effectiveness, quality of service, and accountability mechanisms. LRPF is a powerful process for humanitarian and development work as it seeks to appreciate local knowledge, systems, and structures and will involve hard-to-reach communities that have been left vulnerable continuously. Sincere and long-term approaches in strengthening relationships, building trust, collaboration, and increasing collective self-efficacy and resilience have witnessed results for the elaborate LRPF as rolled out by National and local actors.

LRPF has defined the broader agenda of localization in South Sudan and is effectively addressing the historical and systematic exclusion and marginalization of local actors in the structures of international humanitarian response and development. The creators and founders of localization through the Grand Bargain agreements emphasized increasing funding to local humanitarian actors, more equitable partnerships between local and international actors, more integrated coordination efforts, and increased capacity building for local actors. All these aspects were tested in the CDP LRPF projects implemented exclusively by national partners working closely with community structures and a wide spectrum of stakeholders to deliver results within the last 6 months. LRPF has demonstrated achievements, community impactful interventions, frameworks, and coordination agitations necessary for the results recorded.

The unwavering support given by Save the Children International as an immediate international intermediary is a pillar to laying the foundation and providing opportunities for local actors to receive sustained funding and institutional strengthening. In the short time of collaborative engagement, there is evidence that local actors have built systems, knowledge, and procedures needed to attract and manage large donor funds and meet a donor’s due diligence requirement. The collaborations have helped local actors gain the trust and commitment of potential donors, opening up the possibility of direct financing.