Localisation: Views from South Sudan

In 2021, the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance of USAID commissioned the Feinstein International Center to draft a landscape paper to explore localization of humanitarian assistance. Because many issues related to the localization of humanitarian assistance are inherently context specific, the study team decided to include four case studies to shape the broader report.

This case study provides a “deeper dive” into the South Sudan context to illustrate how the concepts discussed in the broader landscape paper play out there. It describes the country’s humanitarian context, discusses how key concepts (such as local) are defined in the country, describes the state of localization, reviews factors that contribute to and hinder localization, and makes recommendations.

The other case studies look at Haiti, Honduras, and Uganda.

This case study was made possible through support provided by the Office of Acquisition and Assistance, Bureau for Management, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. 720FDA20CA00065. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID.