Locally led humanitarian action

What happened when resilience-building projects closed: Stories of change from Chad

Retrospective learning and resilience-building in Chad – what happened five years after a project introduced climate-smart agriculture?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Creating resilient systems: Greening the humanitarian supply chain whilst promoting localisation

This report examines the intersection of environmental sustainability and localisation within humanitarian supply chains, focusing on the challenges, opportunities and best practices for operationalising these two agendas.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Moralities and power: Understanding the moral labour of national aid professionals in Jordan

This article explores the ‘moral labour’ of national aid professionals in Jordan and sheds light on the complexities of navigating different moralities within a humanitarian system that is shaped by unequal power relations and ongoing coloniality.

• Research and Studies

Neutrality in humanitarianism: what can we learn from Gaza?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Webinar: From listening to practice: Traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness | HNPW 2025

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms

• Research and Studies

What crisis affected communities need from a humanitarian reset

• Research and Studies

Breaking boundaries: Local & national actors’ engagement in the HDP nexus

• Research and Studies

Qualitative guide to run focus group discussions (FGD) with communities and local authorities on early warning systems

• Guidance and Tools

Refugees with disabilities: Lessons from the Russian war in Ukraine (Webinar)

Webinar on the current situation of Ukranian refugees with disabilities and the types of assistance provided to and by them

• Commentaries

(مـلـخـص تـنـفـيـذي) تجاوز الحدود: مشاركة الفاعلين المحليين والوطنيين في ترابط العمل الإنساني والتنمية والسلام.

• Research and Studies

Breaking boundaries: local and national actors’ engagement in the humanitarian–development–peace nexus

• Research and Studies

Vamos rompiendo barreras: los actores locales y nacionales en el nexo humanitario-desarrollo-paz (HDP) (Resumen ejecutivo)

• Research and Studies

Repousser les limites : l'engagement des acteurs locaux et nationaux dans le nexus humanitaire-développement-paix (Résumé exécutif)

• Research and Studies

Survival in a war zone: Mutual aid, local solidarity and beyond - Case study Ukraine

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

Виживання у зоні військових дій: взаємодопомога, місцева солідарність та інше (також доступно французькою та англійською)

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

Survivre dans une zone de guerre : l'entraide, la solidarité locale et au-delà

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

Emergence et devenir des dynamiques solidaires (aide et entraide) dans la vallée de la Roya, post-tempête Alex

L’objectif de ce travail était d’identifier les dynamiques d’aide et d’entraide qui prennent forme et se transforment dans le contexte particulier de la tempête Alex dans la vallée de la Roya.

• Research and Studies

“We barely have time to celebrate our wins … or to process what we’ve lost”

• Research and Studies