#HAI and Christian Aid analysed the progress against the #localisation commitment of World Humanitarian Summit for UN OCHA. Different stakeholders made individual commitments to five Core Responsibilities and 25 key transformations of Agenda for Humanity. This report is analysis of self-reports against two transformations, i.e., Reinforce Local Systems and Invest in Local Capacities. Please click here to read the full analysis and the recommendations:
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World Humanitarian Action Forum
300 civil society actors, philanthropists, academics and reporters joined the World Humanitarian Action Forum on 15-16 October in Istanbul. Led by the Humanitarian Forum and the Turkish Red Crescent Society, WHAF consisted of 4 separate parallel discussions around 4 critical humanitarian themes – conflict, finance, localisation and resilience. HAI was one of the collaborating organisations of this global event. The key recommendations of the localisation work stream could be read here.
Agenda for Humanity
#HAI and Christian Aid analysed the progress against the hashtag#localisation commitment of hashtag#WHS for UN OCHA. Please read here the analysis and the recommendations:
Walking the Talk: Inclusion and Accountability
HAI is one of the founders of The Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (A4EP), a network of organisations committed to rebalancing the humanitarian architecture and practices to enable locally-led responses. This position paper is a contribution to discussions during the ECOSOC meeting and side events from June 24-27 June, in Geneva. It has four attention points.
The paper, published on the Relief Web, can be accessed here.
The story of Meera
Meera is a Hindu refugee from Pakistan living in Majnu ka Tila camp. She met with an accident in 2010, broke her leg, and could never recover fully due to lack of money. Please read her full story here.
She is in need of a sewing machine and also support for her treatment. Please click here to make a contributions in her support.
A4EP seeks reform of the IASC Structure
The composition of the IASC membership remains as per established in 2008, well before the World Humanitarian Summit and the Grand Bargain Commitments. It seems inappropriate to continue with structures which are outdated, reflect unequal power dynamics and do not reflect the current commitments to localisation. Although both ICVA and InerAction have local and national NGOs as members, there are increased calls by local and national actors for direct inclusion in international policy discussions and decision making processes. The new structure does not take note of the commitments that are made on localisation and does not formally recognise local and national actors on equitable basis.
The International Convening Committee of Alliance for Empowering Partnerships calls for Local/ National networks to be invited as an IASC standing Invitee on permanent basis. This will proactively demonstrate the seriousness of the localisation commitments and give recognition to the important role they play nationally, regionally and globally. We urge that at each level there should be a recognised role for local/national/ regional network and at least two result group should have a local/ national/regional NGOs network as co-chairs and that local and national NGO network should play an active role in setting the results. The time frame for feedback and participation should be appropriate so broad consultation can take place.
Please read the complete paper here: