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Humanitarian and emergency response
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Humanitarian Learners and Localised Capacity Strengthening
This research investigates the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the access and use of online learning in the humanitarian sector, and the effect of capacity strengthening in the context of localisation in the sector.
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Reimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to keep girls learning in emergencies
Girls in emergencies are facing several challenges related to education, such as disadvantages at all stages of education, struggle to learn, and higher risk of being out-of-school. This material provides an empirical overview on how to support the learni
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Detrimental Impacts: How counter-terror measures impede humanitarian action
Humanitarian organizations navigate a complex web of laws, policies, funding requirements, and enforcement mechanisms. Whether unintended or not, global counter-terror (C.T.) efforts create real barriers and consequences for humanitarian action. These ran
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Still Unprotected: Humanitarian funding for Child Protection
Children have a fundamental right to be protected, wherever they live. Children affected by humanitarian crises are among the most vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect and most in need of protection, yet there is limited commitment to f
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Save the Children's Global Response Plan to COVID-19: Protecting a generation of children
Unprecedented in scale, COVID-19 is a global crisis that poses immediate threats to children’s rights to survival, development, learning, protection, and to be heard. Unless mitigated, the pandemic risks undermining progress made on achieving the Sustaina
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Localisation Best Practice: Increasing the effectiveness of global humanitarian response
The World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 saw the launch of the Grand Bargain, an agreement between major donors and humanitarian organizations to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of humanitarian action. One of the commitments to achieve this is t
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Save the Children's Humanitarian Plan 2021: Children cannot wait
On 9 December 2020, Save the Children launched a global humanitarian plan to present a global picture of children’s needs and an overview of a response plan to reach 15.7 million people including 9.4 million children in 2021. At a global level, Save the
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Guidance Note on Partnership Practices for Localisation
Based on the perspectives of over 400 humanitarian agencies, this guidance note includes recommendations for partnership practices for localization of humanitarian action. The recommendations can be used for project and financial management, capacity stre
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Localised Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic A4EP Position Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic will not only be a public health crisis, but also an economic and social crisis in countries all across the world. It may also contribute to an increase in ethnic, gender-based, and domestic violence. International mobilization is re
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Localisation Performance Measurement Framework
The first World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 outlined the Grand Bargain Commitments to localization of humanitarian action, which have transformative potential for the humanitarian sector. However, there is currently no system in place that can be used for
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Guidance Note on Humanitarian Financing for Local Actors
This guidance note includes recommendations on humanitarian financing for local actors. It draws on best practices identified in consultations in three regional conferences on localization. Localisation
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Guidance Note on the Participation of Local Actors in Humanitarian Coordination Groups
This guidance note includes recommendations on the participation of local actors in humanitarian coordination groups. It builds on work done by ALNAP in 2016 on improving humanitarian coordination and the Global Protection Cluster and Global Education Clu