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Partnerships and Security Risk Management: A joint action guide for local and international aid organisations
Since attacks on aid workers have been recorded, local and national NGO (L/NNGOs) aid workers worldwide have been the most exposed to security risks. As efforts to ‘localise’ aid carry on and with it, partnerships multiply, we must ensure that internation
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The Grand Bargain at Five Years: An independent review
At the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, representatives of 18 donor countries and 16 international aid organisations from the United Nations, international NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement agreed a ‘Grand Bargain’, with i
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Donors and Equitable Partnership with National and Local Actors: What aid donors can and must do
This GMI paper complements and expands two key guidance notes from the Grand Bargain Workstream on Localisation: Guidance Note on Humanitarian Financing for Local Actors, and Guidance Note on Arrangements between Donors and Intermediaries. (May 2020). Bot
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Everyone's Doing Stuff, but Nobody's Accountable: Will Grand Bargain 2.0 set us right?
The international humanitarian community is gearing up for a reset of the Grand Bargain. The review is on cue. Over the past couple of decades, new humanitarian reform initiatives have succeeded one another every five years or so. The challenge for negoti
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Financial Inclusion for NGOs: Why should you care?
Restrictions, delays or denials of banking services and financial transfers are having devastating unintended consequences for people who depend on humanitarian aid to survive. The delivery of aid is being delayed for months or even blocked entirely, putt
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Time to Decolonize Aid
This report is a result of consultations with a large number of activists, decision-makers, academics, journalists, and practitioners across diverse contexts. It includes insights and local experiences on the current power dynamics and imbalances that exi
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The Contribution of Various Actors Towards Localization of Humanitarian and Development Action in Rwanda
Although the significance of local response in humanitarian action and the principle of local ownership as a best practice has been recognized for a while, the localization agenda has gained momentum since the World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 when severa
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Localising Emergency Preparedness and Response Through Partnerships
In recent years, localization of aid, partnership and capacity building have become increasingly important within the humanitarian sector. This has led many international actors to reflect on their own organizational structure and their approach to partne
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Early Action at Save the Children
This short 4-page document explains what is Early Action, why it is important, and what Save the Children is doing to achieve effective Early Action.
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Humanitarian Action for Children: Venezuela
This report presents some of UNICEF's efforts and results achieved under its 2018-2019 Scale-Up Plan for children in need of humanitarian assistance in Venezuela. The Scale-Up Plan contains targets in the sectors of Nutrition, Health, Water Sanitation and
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Humanitarian Action for Children: Mali
It is estimated that 2.18 million children and young people in Mali require humanitarian assistance due to the country's complex and protracted political crisis. In this report, UNICEF presents its strategy for assisting children and young people in Mali
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Aid Worker Security Report 2019: Speakable: Addressing sexual violence and gender-based risk in humanitarian aid
This Aid Worker Security Report 2019, describes how violent attack rates have risen for both nationals and internationals, however, the rate increase has been steeper for national staff than for their international counterparts. The report describes how m