Locally led humanitarian action

Apoyo a la ayuda recíproca: Lo que indican las evidencias

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

Executive summary - Supporting mutual aid: what the evidence tells us

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

Soutenir l’entraide : Ce que révèlent les éléments de preuve

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

20 years of local learning and knowledge co-creation in Asia: The case of Southasiadisasters.net

Celebrating 20 years, Southasiadisasters.net amplifies local knowledge across Asia—connecting community voices to global action for resilience.

• Research and Studies

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us

This review examines the results experienced by mutual aid groups when they receive external support, and the changes experienced by international actors who provide mutual aid support.

• Research and Studies

Towards climate and extreme heat resilience: Lessons from African and Asian communities

Communities in Africa and Asia share local solutions for extreme heat resilience, highlighting grassroots innovation, and adaptation

• Research and Studies

Global humanitarian overview 2025

• Research and Studies

Women's Humanitarian Leadership Fund: Lessons on power, trust and impact

This report captures the Women's Humanitarian Leadership Funds learning journey on localisation and women's humanitarian leadership enabled through trust-based, flexible funding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Adapting through bricolage: Building resilience in northeast Nigeria

This policy brief explores how communities recombine available resources, skills, and relationships – or bricolage – to cope and respond to shocks.

• Research and Studies

Enhancing pastoral adaptation strategies in Wau and Jur River Counties, South Sudan: Resilience to recurrent climate, economic and social shocks and crises

This policy brief examine how pastoralist and agro-pastoralist households in South Sudan are adapting their livelihood strategies under conditions of climate change, conflict and economic instability.

• Research and Studies

Agro-pastoralists' adaptation to flooding and conflict in Gogrial East, Warrap State, South Sudan

This report explores the perspectives of agro-pastoralist men and women in Toch East and Pathuon West Payams on the impacts of flooding and conflict.

• Research and Studies

From heatwaves to cooling futures: Maharashtra’s leadership in climate action in India

This issue features 17 contributions from practitioners, researchers, and institutions working across Maharashtra’s heat resilience landscape.

• Research and Studies

Building a locally driven humanitarian future in Somalia

A research report analysing progress, challenges and opportunities in humanitarian localisation in Somalia, focusing on institutional capacity, direct funding access, power dynamics and local leadership within the evolving humanitarian system.

• Research and Studies

How to decide who receives what kind of support: Prioritising humanitarian resources

This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

• Research and Studies

Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to decide who receives what kind of support

This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

• Research and Studies

Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to think clearly about what matters most

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• Research and Studies

How to think clearly about what matters most: Prioritising humanitarian resources

This paper sets out a clear model to understand humanitarian decision-making spaces and influences, and proposes constructive approaches to inevitable dilemmas and trade-offs.

• Research and Studies

State of disunion: The impact of US funding cuts on global health R&D

This report documents the changes made by the US government in health and science at home and abroad and estimates their implications for global health R&D.

• Research and Studies

Voices that shape humanitarian responses: Advancing accountability to affected people in northern Syria

This brief is intended for practitioners and policymakers and captures key lessons and promising AAP practices from northern Syria - one of the first settings globally to implement a comprehensive interagency AAP system.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Grand Bargain annual meeting 2025: Summary note

The report discusses progress in the implementation of the GB3.0 Framework, ambitions for the next 14 months, country-level perceptions of the GB implementation, and the future of the platform beyond 2026.

• Research and Studies