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Among humanitarian professionals, there is a widespread perception that increasing localisation will improve the quality of humanitarian aid. Despite the logic of such perceptions, there is a lack of evidence to support the hypothesis. The lack of evidence is a battier to increasing localiastion.
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Humanitarian aid agencies tend to employ European and North Americans into senior leadership roles and tend to hire staff from countries more commonly affected by crises into more junior, local roles, blocking local staff from senior leadership roles. This tendency prevents people from local
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46/182, by 2015, only 0.2% of humanitarian aid funding was allocated to local aid agencies, in contrast to national or international organisations. An emphasis on localisation in the humanitarian sector occurred at the 2016
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The tendency of humanitarian aid agencies to promote Europeans and North Americans into leadership roles, limits the number of leadership positions filled by people with first hand experience of living in an emergency.
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There is lack of consensus between humanitarian practitioners and scholars in defining localisation, with some believing that the definition should vary depending on the country and emergency.
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in their publication "New Way of Working." From 2016 and 2020 the percentage of funding that flowed to local organisations reduced from 3.5% to 2.1%. In 2020,
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in which he suggested the lack of localisation was the result of a lack of capacity amongst local aid agencies. His comments prompted criticisms from the
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A target to increase the percentage of global spending on humanitarian aid flowing directly to local organizations to 25% by 2020 was not reached.
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PINCOCK, K.; BETTS, A.; EASTON-CALABRIA, E. The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance.
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Barriers to localisation include the self-reservation incentives that international humanitarian aid agencies.
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increased the workload of local organisations, while also increasing safety and health risks to local staff.
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Peach, Kathy; Berditchevskaia, Aleks; Gill, Issy; Whittington, Oli; Malliaraki, Eirini; Hussein, Nasra.
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ROEPSTORFF, K. A call for critical reflection on the localisation agenda in humanitarian action.
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that will contain targets to advance localisation. Donors committed to more reforms, signing the
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and others who perceive the problem to be a result of those in power not relinquishing it.
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communities from influencing decision making about emergency responses to disasters.
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in 2017, as part of a wider series of reforms called the "New Way of Working".
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Barbelet, Veronique; Davies, Gemma; Flint, Josie; Davey, Eleanor (June 2021).
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was agreed upon by governments and humanitarian organizations in 2016, at the
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Also in 2021, 60 donors took part in negotiations led by Norwegian diplomat
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Most commonly, localisation is understood to mean the practice, in
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Robillard, Sabina; Atim, Teddy; Maxwell, Daniel (December 2021).
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criticised binary approaches localisation that defined people as
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Although the importance of local aid agencies is acknowledged by
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Practice of supporting aid organisations local to an emergency
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was criticized for comments made in an interview with
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meeting in Turkey. Localisation was promoted by the
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humanitarian aid
World Humanitarian Summit
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
humanitarian aid
United Nations Resolution
World Humanitarian Summit
Grand Bargain
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Degan Ali
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
European Commissioner for Crisis Management
Janez LenarÄŤiÄŤ
The New Humanitarian
Network for Empowered Aid Response
COVID-19 pandemic
Jan Egeland
CARE International
Christian Aid
Oxfam
Plan International
Save the Children International





"Localization: A "Landscape" Report"
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