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The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

26/05/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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From May 2021 to January 2022, Oxfam, in partnership with Sejajar Indonesia, the Tamdeen Youth Foundation in Yemen, and the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC) in Palestine, convened a total of 10 learning series through online convenings on local humanitarian leadership (LHL). Approximately 450 people participated, of whom 60% were from local and national NGOs […]

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Briefing paper

More Local is Possible: Recommendations for enhancing local humanitarian leadership and refugee participation in the Gambella refugee response

01/12/2021

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The Gambella region of western Ethiopia hosts over 300,000 South Sudanese refugees in seven camps. The refugee response is dominated by UN agencies and international NGOs and staffed mostly by Ethiopians from outside of Gambella, creating a gap between humanitarian actors and the people they seek to assist. In order to realize commitments to localization […]

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Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership: The View from Local Actors

26/05/2021

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The global call for localization and locally led emergency response acknowledges the reality that the humanitarian system is currently organized around international actors. More than the limited access to direct funding, the core issue is the power imbalance between local and international actors. In the Philippines, national and local networks of humanitarian, faith-based, developmental organizations […]

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Discussion paper

Feminist Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands

21/09/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Alisia Evans and Sharon Bhagwan Rolls use a feminist analysis of Pacific regional Women, Peace and Security (WPS) mechanisms to highlight Pacific feminist peacebuilders’ efforts to localize regional peace and security policies through gender-transformative peacebuilding practices. Their essay shows how Pacific peacebuilding networks operate through traditional and customary systems and engage with faith leaders in […]

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Research report

Anchored in Local Reality: Case Studies on Local Humanitarian Action from Haiti, Colombia, and Iraq

31/03/2020

3 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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Critiques of international humanitarian aid have long suggested that it needs to be more inclusive of actors from crisis-affected countries. Increased attention to this issue over the past decade or so has coalesced into a set of agendas often referred to as the “localization” of humanitarian assistance, “local humanitarian leadership” (LHL), and “local humanitarian action” […]

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Research report

Oxfam Novib and Partnerships: A historical perspective

14/05/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the last five decades, Oxfam Novib has built partnerships with thousands of civil society organizations in more than 80 countries around the world. During this time, the support of local partner organizations has been central to Oxfam Novib’s development philosophy, which is based on the strong belief that local organizations are the prime actors […]

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The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

More Local is Possible: Recommendations for enhancing local humanitarian leadership and refugee participation in the Gambella refugee response

Local Humanitarian Leadership: The View from Local Actors

Feminist Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands

Anchored in Local Reality: Case Studies on Local Humanitarian Action from Haiti, Colombia, and Iraq

Oxfam Novib and Partnerships: A historical perspective