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This month's Grand Bargain newsletter highlights how localisation, equitable power-sharing, and flexible funding are key to greater efficiency in the face of humanitarian funding cuts. Time to accelerate implementation! interagencystandingcommittee.org/newsletter-apr… #Localisation #GrandBargain

Differential value on human lives 🗣️ Sudhanshu S Singh,Humanitarian Aid International #India. #DecoloniseAid #AmplifyLocal

"#Localisation is not about hashtags or seat-warming in coordination meetings. It’s about doing the messy, painful, deeply human work of letting go. Letting go of control, of ego, of institutional comfort." Micheal Gumisiriza via The New Humanitarian bit.ly/3EtN42R

The issue of #neutrality🗣️Roanna van Voorst, UvA Amsterdam & Thea Hilhorst, ISS, The Hague. #localisation #AmplifyLocal

Our partners face lots of barriers 🗣️ Anonymous, international NGO staff member. #localisation #AmplifyLocal

The aid system continues to sideline local leadership, centralise decision-making, and prioritise donor cycles over community realities. But we are not passive. We are organising, mobilising, and leading the alternatives. 🖊️ Sign the open letter: standwithcivilsociety.org

National NGO staff often work for free 🗣️ Hero Anwar, REACH #Iraq | #AmplifyLocal #Localisation

A strategy is needed for how Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office will collaborate with civil society🗣️ Bond West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) | #AmplifyLocal #Localisation

Only 4.4% of humanitarian funding reaches local and national actors 🗣️ A4EP | #AmplifyLocal #Localisation

Deeper understanding of the context 🗣️Margie Buchanan-Smith, HPN | #AmplifyLocal #Localisation

The language of outputs and indicators = privileges certain views🗣️ Caitlin Scott, Development UEA 🌍 | #AmplifyLocal #Localisation

What is your #humanitarian type? How do you see - and shape - the system? This new, quick, anonymous quiz tells you...Saviour? Expert? Fatalist? Advocate? Ally? Based on a post from Marina Kobzev: form.jotform.com/250845568779376

Connecting localization mobilization in the greater civil society movement thefinancetoday.net/article/opinio…, #ehf2025, Amplify Local, Charter4Change, Grand Bargain, Dr Jemilah Mahmood, Sudhanshu S Singh, Jamie Munn, Community World Service Asia

ASAL Humanitarian Network - Kenya Ahmed Ibrahim tells #EHF2025 of Charter4Change due diligence passport initiative (also involving ACT Alliance) Ahmed as LNGO experienced being due-diligenced by 12 separate funders in 1 year illustrating importance to harmonise, simplify + lighten load on our partners

#EHF2025 Duty of Care panel Sudhanshu S Singh calls on intl agencies to reinforce local humanitarians including fair salaries, not current exploitative relations. Mila Ukraine CSO Alliance calls for insurance, first aid & other practical support to local responders Charter4Change

Charter4Change Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 “Remember that for local organisations this is not a job, this is our life; for our neighbours, our friends, our family, and so for us we need resources to continue our work” Anna Chernova, posmishka.ua, #localisation panel at #EHF2025

For #localisation to truly work, we need trust, equitable partnerships, and strong local responders ready to lead – even after international actors step back." Read more: newvision.co.ug/category/news/… #LocalLeadership #EquitablePartnerships

🚨 New report: Metrics Matter III Despite big promises on #localisation, just 5.5% of the funding we examined from 5 major donors went directly to local actors. 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸 It's time for more #Transparency & #accountability. 👉publishwhatyoufund.org/download/metri… #Localization #LocallyLed

🆕 Network for Empowered Aid Response's Brief on #HumanitarianReset The UN Humanitarian Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher has called for a #HumanitarianReset – but will it finally shift power to those closest to crises?

📣 Have you been working on humanitarian responses anywhere in the world since 2022? ALNAP wants to hear from you! 🔎 Research work for the State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) 2026 has begun and the aid practitioner survey is open. Share your experiences, views and insights