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Accelerating Localisation Through Partnerships: Nigeria report
Local and national actors are in many cases crucial in humanitarian responses during conflict and crisis. There have been hundreds of reports written on the subject of localization, but very few on the role of partnership in relation to localization. Fewe
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Funding a Localised, Women-led Approach to Protection from Gender Based Violence: What is the data telling us?
Disasters, protracted crises and conflicts disproportionately affect women. However, women and their organizations are significantly underrepresented in humanitarian response. The evidence shows that engaging with local and national actors is critical for
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Rethinking Capacity and Complementarity for a More Local Humanitarian Action
To better inform humanitarian action that is as local as possible and as international as necessary, Humanitarian Policy Group launched a research project on capacity and complementarity in 2017. The goal of this project was to gain understanding on how c
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Case Study: Developing a first strategy
The RISE programme founded by IKEA Foundation aimed at building the organizational capacity of Syrian civil society organisations and their Child Protection programming. It focused on the internal capacity of the organisations themselves as well as their
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Local Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Capacity and complementarity
During the last decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced numerous crises resulting from civil war and conflicts in neighboring countries, but also natural disasters and pandemics. As a result, it is estimated that 12,8 million people
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Unpacking Localization
Localization is a product of a wide range of changes, and particularly those related to the type of organizations that are leading or delivering humanitarian assistance in emergencies. It also includes the ways in which these organizations work and the en
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Localisation in Fiji: Demonstrating change
Fiji has experienced several large-scale cyclones during the last years, with earthquakes and floodings also being common. As a regional hub for the Pacific, many international and regional organizations are based there, alongside a large presence of civi
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Preliminary Research Summary: A feminist exploration of women-led localisation in the Central Sulawesi response
Central Sulawesi in Indonesia is understood to be a mainly patriarchal society, within which women and girls experience inequalities at multiple levels. For example, women and girls are exposed to different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and are oft
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Accelerating Localisation Through Partnerships: South Sudan report
Local and national actors are in many cases crucial in humanitarian responses during conflict and crisis. There have been hundreds of reports written on the subject of localization, but very few on the role of partnership in relation to localization. Fewe
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Protecting People in Locally Led Disaster Response
Humanitarian organizations operating in the Pacific are increasingly recognizing the importance of localized humanitarian action. Major donors have made supporting localization a strategic objective in their humanitarian work and their monitoring and eval
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Advancing the Localisation Agenda in Protection Coordination Groups
In many countries across the world, local organizations are the first responders to humanitarian crises. These actors do not only provide crucial cultural and historical knowledge to responses, but also access to local networks and affected communities. F
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A Feminist Approach to Localisation: How Canada can support the leadership of women's rights actors in humanitarian action
Humanitarian crises have different impacts on women, girls, men and boys. In most cases, women and girls are harmed disproportionately. Despite this, humanitarian interventions often fail to protect women and girl's rights, and there is no global measure