HAI is one of the conveners of Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (A4EP) – a global network on humanitarian advocacy. A4EP has issued it statement on Cyclone Idai to remind the international actors about the localisation commitments they have made. The statement asks for the following:
- The international headquarters of the GB and C4C signatories should remind their
national offices about the commitments they are expected to adhere - Unless it could be justified, responses of national offices of international
organisations should be through partnership with homegrown local and national
actors. This should be an opportunity to reinforce, not replace - It is of utmost importance not only to pass on 25% and 20% of humanitarian funding
by the GB and C4C signatories respectively, but also try to exceed it whenever and
wherever possible - C4C signatories should constantly highlight the role of their local partners in all
media communications - Better partnership modalities with local and national actors must be explored by the
donors and intermediary agencies, instead of merely transferring implementation
related risks to them through sub-contracting - In order to seek durable solutions, the recognition of the impacts of climate change
is crucial. Not only is climate resilience important for planning for disasters but it is
also important because we now know more of these extreme climate events will
come. The response and recovery needs to plan to ensure that risk management or
risk mitigation is factored into disaster recovery. it is important to work through
humanitarian-development nexus by ensuring multi-year financing, beyond short
term humanitarian funding.
Please click here to read the full statement.