Locally led humanitarian action

Sharing to Survive: Investigating the Role of Social Networks During Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

• Research and Studies

The racialization of expertise and professional non-equivalence in the humanitarian workplace

The paper reveals how humanitarian aid organisations covertly racialize expertise, showing that professional categories like “expatriate” and “local” reproduce colorblind hierarchies where perceptions of competence are tied to whiteness.

• Research and Studies

Models for Prevention: Lessons from the Sahel, Horn, and Latin America

This report argues that a better understanding of its three prevention models will improve the design of future prevention strategies, identify opportunities for multi-stakeholder partnership, and support programming at the national and regional levels.

• Research and Studies

Sowing and harvesting: Participatory evaluation handbook

• Guidance and Tools

Policy into practice: Implementing humanitarian priorities in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

• Research and Studies

Localisation Approach of Humanitarian Protection Responses in Myanmar - HARP-F Case Study

• Research and Studies

Demonstrating change on locally led humanitarian action in the Pacific: Ki Namuka Vata Ga Nikua

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian Aid on the Move N° 23

• Research and Studies

Uganda’s loans from international financial institutions (IFIs), 2018–2021

An analysis of IFI lending to Uganda from 2018 to 2021, examining trends, sector priorities and implications for debt sustainability.

• Research and Studies

Localization: A landscape report

• Research and Studies

Localized humanitarian action at the forefront of the climate crisis

• Research and Studies

African evaluation principles (AEP)

• Guidance and Tools

Messages clés : Etude collective "Urgence Beyrouth"

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

HLA COVID 19 Capacity Strengthening Response Review 2020-21

What knowledge counts? Local humanitarian knowledge production in protracted conflicts. A Central African Republic case study

• Research and Studies

What are the ongoing impacts of the pandemic on development finance?

How is Covid-19 reshaping development finance? This briefing tracks the pandemic’s impact on domestic revenues, aid and other financial flows in the world’s poorest and most fragile countries.

• Research and Studies

Lessons learned from community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programmes that operate in fragile or conflict-affected settings

This rapid review synthesises the literature on how community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programmes could be adapted in settings of conflict and fragility.

• Research and Studies

Are we there yet? Localisation as the journey towards locally led practice

• Research and Studies

Power & solidarity in humanitarian governance – what aid workers really think

Localization was a useful window to assess relations of power, and especially between “international” and “local” actors.

• Commentaries

The Question is not “If to Localise?” but Rather “How to Localise?”: Perspectives from Irish Humanitarian INGOs

• Research and Studies