Locally Led Humanitarian Response Networks
Overview
Locally led humanitarian response networks are transforming aid by centring national, local, and community leadership to deliver faster, more relevant humanitarian assistance across complex crises. This learning brief shares practical approaches and insights from four networks in Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar and Somalia, showing how diverse locally led response networks coordinate, share capacity, and mobilise resources to respond at scale. It highlights governance models and decision-making, approaches to humanitarian response and, and efforts to ensure inclusive leadership—particularly for women led and grassroots organisations. Read on for concrete lessons and practical examples of networked, locally driven humanitarian action.
Keywords
Additional details
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
DOI
10.21201/2026.000145How to cite this resource
Citation styles vary so we recommend you check what is appropriate for your context. You may choose to cite Oxfam resources as follows:
Author(s)/Editor(s). (Year of publication). Title and sub-title. Place of publication: name of publisher. DOI (where available). URL
Our FAQs page has some examples of this approach.