Principles Into Practice: Aid Localisation in Somalia

The donors, INGOs, the government, LNGOs and the private sector are the main stakeholders responsible for aid localisation in Somalia. Currently, several international organisations are adopting more localised approaches of collaborating with LNGOs and state actors. Local actors indicated that these organisations adopted unique and supportive partnership modalities and attained notable investment in strengthening the capacity of LNGOs. Nevertheless, local stakeholders termed the partnerships as only contractual in nature and short-term thus expressed their frustration with the lack of adequate participation of national actors in the aid localisation agenda.