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Localisation
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Guidance Note on Arrangements Between Donors and Intermediaries
This guidance note provides recommendations on how arrangements between donors, and UN agencies, intentional non-governmental organizations and other international humanitarian organizations can further the Grand Bargain’s localization goals in cases wher
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Partnerships and Security Risk Management: From the local partner’s perspective
This research paper from GISF focuses on the security risks that local and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face and their management of them which aren’t sufficiently addressed in the partnerships with international NGOs. The research proje
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Risk and Humanitarian Culture: An ICVA briefing paper
The presence of risk will always be a central part of the humanitarian space. While risk awareness often is clearly embedded in humanitarian work, risk management is not. In turn, the responsibility to people in need is clear in the humanitarian culture,
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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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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
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Accelerating Localised Response to COVID-19: Practical pathways
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare and immediate opportunity for a norm shift towards localisation in the humanitarian architecture. Whilst international humanitarian actors are facing constraints in funding and restrictions on movement and travel, nat
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Session 1: Localization in child protection coordination
In this video, the local organisation Al Ghad and Save the Children International in Iraq describes the work on child protection coordination in Iraq. Localisation
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Anchored in Local Reality: Case Studies on Local Humanitarian Action from Haiti, Colombia, and Iraq
Critiques of international humanitarian action have suggested that it needs to be more inclusive of actors from crisis-affected countries. Increased attention to this issue has led to a set of agendas often referred to as the localization of humanitarian
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Five Ways to Support Locally Led Disaster Response in the Pacific During COVID-19
This summary outlines how humanitarian actors can support locally-led responses to disasters in the Pacific. It summarises lessons from previous responses, findings from localization research in the Pacific, and emerging thinking about localization in the
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Localization in Child Protection Coordination: Shifting norms and facing challenges and opportunities in COVID-19 response
This is a video from a presentation at the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action annual meeting on localization in coordination. The presentation focuses on child protection coordination and localisation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Local
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Guidance Note on Gender-Responsive Localisation
This guidance note includes recommendations for gender-responsive localization of humanitarian action. It was prepared by UN Women and the Grand Bargain Friends of Gender Group and developed through research as well as regional consultations with local wo
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No Turning Back: Local leadership in Vanuatu's response to Tropical Cyclone Harold
This practice paper is a rapid analysis of the Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold response, 50 days after the disaster. Primarily based on qualitative data, it explores the extent and implications of the locally-led response at the time of assessment. It asks c