Locally led humanitarian action

Kenya Cash Consortium - Four years on: Locally led response case study

This paper aims to highlight milestones made regarding locally led humanitarian response under the umbrella of the Kenya Cash Consortium projects over the past four years. It also endeavors to present lessons learnt and some of the best practices to inform the humanitarian financing system.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Ukraine Response: Learning Needs Analysis

This Learning Needs Assessment was conducted after a series of RedR trainings, to understand changes in the context and current capacity strengths, gaps and learning needs to inform RedR’s next steps.

• Research and Studies

Needles in a haystack: An analysis of global south roles in humanitarian knowledge production

• Research and Studies

Decolonizing evaluation: Whose value counts?

• Research and Studies

Technologies in Humanitarian Settings: Supporting Community-led ICTs

• Research and Studies

Locally driven pathways for humanitarian peer learning

• Research and Studies

Locally driven pathways for humanitarian peer learning

• Research and Studies

The participation of local and national actors in humanitarian coordination structures

Funding to local actors: evidence from the Syrian refugee response in Türkiye

Who really gets the money in the Syrian refugee response in Türkiye? This report tracks the funding and exposes the gaps behind localisation commitments.

• Research and Studies

Locally led action subverts traditional aid myths

• Research and Studies

إرشادات اللجنة الدائمة المشتركة بين الوكالات بشأن تغطية المصاريف العامة للمنظمات المحلية والوطنية الشريكة

• Guidance and Tools

Orientaciones del Comité Permanente entre Organismos sobre la provisión de fondos para gastos generales a los asociados locales y nacionales

• Guidance and Tools

Orientations du Comité permanent interorganisations concernant la prise en charge des frais généraux engagés par les partenaires locaux et nationaux

• Guidance and Tools

IASC Guidance on the provision of overheads to local and national partners

• Guidance and Tools

Filling the gap: Addressing climate-driven crises in Pakistan

The 2022 floods left one in seven Pakistanis affected, exposing how current funding systems fail the most vulnerable. This briefing calls for a more reliable, climate‑just response that links relief, recovery, and resilience.

• Research and Studies

Climate finance: Accounting and accountability

This briefing provides an overview of some of the biggest problems with existing climate finance data to highlight what needs to change in order to reach the next target.

• Research and Studies

Passing the buck: The economics of localizing international assistance

A study by the Share Trust and the Warande Advisory Centre on the economic implications of shifting 25% of Official Development Assistance (ODA) - aligned with Grand Bargain and USAID commitments - from international to local intermediary structures.

• Research and Studies

Measuring humanitarian localisation in Yemen: Baseline report

• Research and Studies

Multidimensional poverty: Measures and frameworks to leave no one behind

A clear, practical guide showing how poverty goes beyond income, comparing global and local measures, and stressing the need for disaggregated data to uncover real inequalities in people’s lives.

• Guidance and Tools

Follow the money: Tracking humanitarian cash and voucher assistance

This webinar provides explores the state of tracking cash and voucher assistance (CVA) used during humanitarian crises.

• Research and Studies