Locally led humanitarian action

Community Engagement Research – Uganda Case Study

• Research and Studies

Community Engagement Research Synthesis Paper - Key Findings and Recommendations Report

• Research and Studies

Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund (DCPSF) Phase II extension project evaluation report

This is an evaluation report for the DCPSF Phase II extension projects which were implemented by seventeen implementing partners across the five states of Darfur in Sudan.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Too Southern to be Funded: the Funding Bias against the Global South

• Research and Studies

Community-led Resource Mobilization & Early Warning Systems Process Assessment: Titukulane Project

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The conundrum of climate financing: Where is the finance for sustainable, resilient, innovative solutions?

This paper proposes some foundations for just climate financing, and asks why funds are still insufficient for climate adaption to tackle climate change

• Research and Studies

Financing the United Nations: status quo, challenges and reform options

This new study titled analyzes how current patterns of UN financing undermine the foundations of inclusive and effective multilateralism, arguing that member states should reform the system of assessed contributions and increase the transparency of voluntary funding.

• Research and Studies

CHA Localisation in practice II: Implementing Risk Sharing in humanitarian action

• Research and Studies

Imperfect relief: Challenges to the impartiality and identity of humanitarian action

This article examines the principle of impartiality in humanitarian action, exploring how both external constraints and internal sector practices affect the equitable delivery of assistance based on need.

• Research and Studies

Revitalising the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative: A 20-year review

Commissioned to revive the GHDI initiative, this report presents the need and demand for improvements to the clarity of the GHDI function, and the effectiveness of its working.

• Research and Studies

When compliance does harm: Impacts of international frameworks on local aid workers and systems in Myanmar

• Research and Studies

Client Responsiveness and Accountability to Affected Populations Learning Module

• Guidance and Tools

The imperial past and decolonised future of humanitarian action

This article will frame contemporary humanitarian action by understanding its imperial past and attempts to decolonise assistance in the present.

• Commentaries

A journey towards effective risk-sharing: Risk-sharing framework simulation outcome report

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The role of local actors in social protection in crisis contexts

This report shows that local actors are crucial in delivering social protection in crisis contexts but remain sidelined, urging systemic change to make them leaders of inclusive and resilient systems.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned
• Research and Studies

Influencer Europe: How European donors could drive much-needed humanitarian reform through strategic coordination

• Research and Studies

Weaponizing aid: How aid dependency maintains colonialism in Palestine

This Deep Dive looks at the political economy of aid in Palestine is and its effect on CSO-led Triple Nexus initiatives and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

• Research and Studies

Flagship Initiative: First year learning report (March 2024)

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The localization agenda 2.0

• Research and Studies

Pagkakaloob: The Filipino concept and practice of community philanthropy