Locally led humanitarian action

What is multidimensional poverty?

This briefing shows that poverty is more than a lack of money—it’s about health, education, rights, and opportunities. Using a multidimensional lens, it calls for flexible, inclusive approaches that reflect people’s real lives and ensure no one is left behind.

• Research and Studies

A dry horizon: Iraq’s interlinked drought and climate crises

This study assesses how climate change and water scarcity have impacted displacement, incomes, and crop production across households, as well as the Government of Iraq’s response.

• Research and Studies

The state of communication, community engagement and accountability across the Ukraine response

• Research and Studies

Humanitarny ruch oporu: Jego znaczenie etyczne i operacyjne

• Research and Studies

La résistance humanitaire: Son importance éthique et opérationnelle

• Research and Studies

Гуманітарний опір: Його етичне та оперативне значення

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian resistance: Its ethical and operational importance

• Research and Studies

The effects of coloniality and international development assistance on Made in Africa Evaluation: Implications for a decolonised evaluation agenda

• Research and Studies

The food insecurity gap and protracted humanitarian crisis

Acute food insecurity is on the rise due to concurrent humanitarian crises. Understanding this relationship is key to effective targeting of assistance.

• Research and Studies

From “Innovation for Localization” to “Local Philanthropy, Localization and Power”: A learning report on collaboration across systems

• Research and Studies

Chinese lending to East Africa: What the numbers tell us

This report analyzes China’s US$7.3 billion loan commitments to East Africa, between 2015 and 2020, specifically to Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, showing how funds were distributed across countries and sectors, the terms of financing, and how China’s role compares with other major donors.

• Research and Studies

Approaches to embedding indigenous knowledge systems in Made in Africa Evaluations

• Research and Studies

Pre-positioning locally led communication and community engagement networks: learning from Fiji and Vanuatu

• Research and Studies

Climate adaptation investments in conflict-affected states

This paper aims to influence policy-makers in the climate, humanitarian and peace-building communities of practice, as well as country governments that are facing fragile and conflict-affected situations, to re-think the risks and increase financial allocations to the least developed country sub-group of fragile and conflict-affected states that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

• Research and Studies

Caucus on the role of intermediaries - Final outcome document

• Guidance and Tools

ACHIEVING A MORE EQUITABLE AND IMPACTFUL HUMANITARIAN SECTOR: PLATFORM PAPER

• Research and Studies

Community-based Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) in the Pacific: Findings from Tuvalu

This research explored opportunities for strengthening EWEA in the Pacific, focusing on understanding local practices at the community level, capturing evidence on impacts as well as response mechanisms and identifying ways to strengthen and build on these models.

• Research and Studies

Etude collective "Urgence Beyrouth"

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Advancing the HDP Nexus in the MENA Region – Breaking the Silos

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

InterAction community responds to UNSC resolution 2642 and its impact on humanitarian assistance to Syria

InterAction members respond to UN Security Council Resolution 2642, warning that the six‑month renewal of Syria’s cross‑border aid authorization undermines humanitarian planning and risks cutting off life‑saving assistance for millions in northwest Syria.

• Commentaries