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Interrogating the Evidence Base on Humanitarian Localisation: A literature study
The impact of ‘localisation’ on strengthening effective and efficient responses to humanitarian crises continues to be a key policy and practice concern for donors and the broader sector. Criticisms of a ‘broken’ humanitarian system dominated by internati
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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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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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Survivor- and Community-led Crisis Response: Practical experience and learning
A large body of evidence highlights the significance of autonomous self-help among populations hit by humanitarian and protection crises. The role of crisis-affected people as the first (and last) responders is universally acknowledged, even if too often
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Localisation and Local Humanitarian Action: Humanitarian Exchange Number 79 May 2021
In this number of Humanitarian Exchange, the authors interrogate the link between capacity strengthening and localisation, concluding that supporting local leadership is a more effective approach. Capacity-strengthening is discussed including how innovati
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Global analysis framework
Access to education is a central need for millions of children and young people affected by emergencies and protracted crises. Supporting education in crisis contexts involves multiple actors with different mandates, missions, organizational structures, a
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Syria case study
The civil war in Syria began in March 2011 and has become one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. In 2018, there were 5.8 million children and young people in need of education assistance in the country. Direct attacks on schools and educatio
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Democratic Republic of the Congo case study
At the time of writing, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is considered to be undergoing one of the world’s most complex and protracted crises, with multiple armed conflicts and outbreaks of Ebola in certain areas. The Congolese authorities has very
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Iraq case study
At the time of writing, estimates show that 2.6 million people need humanitarian assistance in the education sector in Iraq. One of the reasons for this is the destruction of schools during the multiple waves of violence over the last decade, but overcrow
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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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Child Poverty in Africa: An SDG emergency in the making
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envisage an end to extreme poverty for ‘all people everywhere’. That goal is drifting out of reach for one group of people in one region: children in Africa. On current trends, 305 million African children – t
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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