Locally led humanitarian action

The data side of leaving no one behind: Lessons from landscaping

This paper looks at lessons learned from data landscaping at the national level, and examine how it can be used to inform decisions on poverty eradication to ensure no one is left behind.

• Research and Studies

Localisation, Racism and Decolonisation: Hollow Talk or Real Look in the Mirror?

• Research and Studies

Risk Communication and Community Engagement Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccines for Marginalized Populations

• Guidance and Tools

Reversing the trends that leave least developed countries (LDCs) behind

This report looks at how trends leaving least developed countries behind can be reversed, and how official development assistance can be targeted to meet the needs of the poorest people.

• Research and Studies

Is aid really changing? What the Covid-19 response tells us about localisation, decolonisation and the humanitarian system

• Research and Studies

Resilience Assessment in the Face of Migration - A Guidebook for Municipalities

• Guidance and Tools

Refugee Advocacy in Turkey From Local to Global

• Research and Studies

Kenya’s increasing use of loans from international financial institutions

This report is about Kenya’s growing use of loans from international lenders during Covid‑19, showing how rising debt is limiting money for basic public needs.

• Research and Studies

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

• Research and Studies

Analysis of aid flows to Uganda before and during Covid-19

This document is a data‑driven briefing on how Uganda’s aid landscape shifted before and during Covid‑19, revealing rising loans, sectoral reallocations, and the risks of growing debt.

• Research and Studies

Targeting Covid-19 relief in Uganda: the role of data, statistics and evidence

An event summary examining how data and evidence were used to target Covid-19 cash relief in Uganda, and the challenges of identifying vulnerable populations in emergencies.

• Commentaries

Guidance for participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning system

• Guidance and Tools

SPACE Framework for shifting bilateral programmes to local actors

• Guidance and Tools

SCOPING STUDY SISTEM DAN LANSKAP KEMANUSIAAN YANG INKLUSIF DI INDONESIA

• Research and Studies

Inclusive Humanitarian System and Landscape in Indonesia: Scoping Study

• Research and Studies

Improving the visibility of local and national actors in humanitarian aid data

This report demonstrates how combining IATI and OCHA’s 3W (Who does What Where) data can make Somali local organisations more visible in humanitarian aid, strengthening trust, localisation, and accountability.

• Research and Studies

Disaster during a pandemic: Lessons from the 2020 flooding in South Japan

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected both the preparedness and the recovery for the 2020 flood response in Japan.

• Research and Studies

Localization is Self-Determination

• Research and Studies

Somalia: Policy brief: Investing in Mental Health

Local humanitarian action during Covid-19: findings from a diary study

• Research and Studies