Locally led humanitarian action

ALNAP’s A Matter of Priorities: a podcast on tough choices in humanitarian funding trailer

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• Commentaries

Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Global South: Exploring the role of civil society in AI decision-making

• Research and Studies

Strengthening resilience and climate adaptation in conflict and fragile settings: towards effective action

Scaling up climate finance and action in fragile and conflict settings is challenging – but it is possible, as this new brief by the ICRC and ODI Global demonstrates.

• Research and Studies

Building a responsible humanitarian approach: the ICRC’s policy on artificial intelligence

• Guidance and Tools

National factors helping aid-funded programmes deliver: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia

This briefing shows how national leadership, policy alignment, and context‑specific approaches helped aid‑funded programmes in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia deliver results, while warning of sustainability challenges.

• Research and Studies

Embracing discomfort: a call to enable finance for climate change adaptation in conflict settings

A call to enable finance for climate-change adaptation in conflict settings

• Research and Studies

How to prepare for the next inevitable Ebola outbreak: lessons from West Africa

This article proposes a strategic overhaul of Ebola intervention methodologies, emphasizing the need for a more adaptive and globally integrated approach to health crisis management.

• Research and Studies

Strengthening systems so people can take charge: cash recipient experiences in Ukraine (ENG)

This report examines Ukraine’s humanitarian cash response, showing how stronger coordination with government systems and attention to people’s preferences can make aid more effective and empowering

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Користувацькі подорожі одержувачів грошової допомоги в Україні: досвід отримувачів грошової допомоги в Україні

This report examines Ukraine’s humanitarian cash response, showing how stronger coordination with government systems and attention to people’s preferences can make aid more effective and empowering

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) Report 2024: Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform

• Research and Studies

The Flagship Initiative: Rethinking humanitarian response

• Research and Studies

Pakistan Multi-sector Integrated Emergency Response – Phase 2 Evaluation

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Harnessing hope: Community perceptions and climate adaptation in Afghanistan. Lessons learned and the way forward

This brief amplifies local voices—men, women, and children—to provide insights and recommendations on adapting to climate change that are both culturally relevant and practically actionable.

• Research and Studies

Co-creation in development research: A practical guide for researchers

Guide to using co-creation in development research, centring community knowledge and shifting power for more inclusive, decolonised practice.

• Guidance and Tools

Localization in theory and practice

• Research and Studies

The Grand Bargain 3.0 Implementation Agenda

• Guidance and Tools

Vision paper: Toward an equitable humanitarian knowledge and evidence landscape

• Research and Studies

Evaluating extreme heat projects and programmes: Key lessons

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Localisation in humanitarian leadership

This Somalia country profile, developed as part of ICVA’s study on localisation in humanitarian leadership, examines how local and national NGOs engage within Somalia’s IASC coordination structures.

• Research and Studies

ODA financing the climate–gender–disability interface: Key facts

This factsheet analyses recent official development assistance to African countries and national budgets from select eastern African countries to assess the financing landscape of the intersections between climate change adaptation and mitigation, inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, and gender equality.

• Research and Studies