Locally led humanitarian action

How are aid budgets changing due to the Covid 19 crisis?

This factsheet shows how the pandemic reshaped global aid: bilateral donors cut back, while multilaterals like the World Bank and Global Fund scaled up. It tracks shifts in health and water/sanitation funding and highlights the challenge of monitoring Covid 19-related aid in real time.

• Research and Studies

IASC Proposals to Address the Inconsistency in Unlocking and Disbursing Funds to NGOs in COVID-19 Response

• Guidance and Tools

Humanitarian Funding, Partnerships and Coordination in the COVID-19 crisis: Perspectives from Local Women-led Organisations

The Impact of Resource Dependence on the Localization of Humanitarian Action: The Case of Kenya

• Research and Studies

COVID-19 Crisis and Support for Agrifood: Public Sector Responses through the Financial Sector

Kenya’s Covid-19 budget: Funding for health and welfare

This budget highlights increased health spending but persistent gaps, reduced social protection, and calls for stronger healthcare, safety nets, and equitable household support.

• Research and Studies

Aid spent on health: ODA data on donors, sectors, recipients

This paper examines key trends in ODA to health, using the latest data to assess who the major donors are and where health ODA expenditure is disbursed, at the recipient and subsector level.

• Research and Studies

Programming Guidance: Embedding Localisation in the Response to COVID-19

• Guidance and Tools

Local Leadership for Disaster Resilience: Profiles from Asia and the Pacific

• Research and Studies

‘All Eyes Are on Local Actors’: Covid-19 and Local Humanitarian Action

• Research and Studies

Investing in the Pathways to Employment

• Research and Studies

Localization Across Contexts: Lessons Learned from Four Case Studies

• Research and Studies

Covid-19 and financing projections for developing countries

This document is to assess and project the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on financing for developing countries—covering domestic resources, international flows (FDI, remittances, tourism), official development assistance (ODA), and debt—and to highlight the urgent need for reform in the global financing system.

• Research and Studies

The Impact of COVID-19 on African Civil Society Organizations

• Research and Studies

Accountability to Affected Populations - Use of AAP Indicators in Multi-sector Needs Assessments (Training Modules)

• Guidance and Tools

South Sudan: Local Faith Leaders are Crucial to Saving Lives as COVID-19 Cases Rise

• Commentaries

Rapport succinct de l’évaluation de la politique du PAM en matière de problématique hommes-femmes (2015–2020)

Informe resumido de la evaluación de la política del PMA en materia de género para 2015-2020

WFP Evaluation of the Gender Policy (2015-2020) - Report Summary (Arabic)

A Decade In Search of Work: A Review of Policy Commitments for Syrian Refugees’ Livelihoods in Jordan and Lebanon