Focus topics

Localisation in practice II: Implementing Risk Sharing in humanitarian action

• Research and Studies

Des besoins croissants et des financements en baisse: Perceptions de l'aide au Burkina Faso

• Research and Studies

Security and climate change implications for humanitarian, development and peace-building programmes in Somalia

Report of ODI and the Center for Climate and Security's workshop on challenges and opportunities across climate adaptation, security, development and humanitarian aid to deliver climate-resilient development.

• Research and Studies

What does it mean to take context seriously for engaging in markets? Lessons from Afghanistan

This policy brief looks at why millions of dollars of aid and investment failed to transform Afghanistan's economy.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What does it mean to take context seriously for credit and microfinance? Lessons from informal credit in Afghanistan

This policy brief looks at why aid practitioners missed an important opportunity to understand and engage with informal credit systems in Afghanistan.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What does it mean to take context seriously for post-harvest processing and storage? Lessons from Afghanistan

This policy brief looks at why aid practitioners missed an important opportunity to bolster food security by supporting improved post-harvest processing and storage in Afghanistan.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What does it mean to take context seriously for rural differentiation? Lessons from Afghanistan

This policy brief looks at how aid practitioners in Afghanistan assumed a high degree of uniformity in the rural economy that does not exist, to the detriment of development interventions.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What does it mean to take context seriously for village-level governance? Lessons from community development councils in Afghanistan

This policy brief looks at why aid practitioners' governance reforms in Afghanistan failed to engage with existing village-level governarnance.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

“Stop the war and let me return to my home, even if it is destroyed.”

• Research and Studies

Pas de transparence, pas de confiance

• Research and Studies

No transparency, no trust

• Research and Studies

Community priorities and perceptions of aid and support in Gaza

• Research and Studies

Changer de perspective : pour une approche locale de la donnée

• Research and Studies

Changing the outlook: for a local approach to data

• Research and Studies

Supporting local actors: Evaluation of Sweden's application of the Grand Bargain localisation agenda

IASC Collective AAP Framework

• Guidance and Tools

Humanitarian artificial intelligence (AI) Code of Conduct

• Guidance and Tools

Guidance on the integration of humanitarian principles in the evaluation of humanitarian action

• Guidance and Tools

IASC PSEA Core Indicators Guidance Note

• Guidance and Tools

Engaging women in the humanitarian response in Afghanistan: Perspectives from people with low literacy levels

• Research and Studies