Activism and action beyond 'localisation' | odi.org
Speakers
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Wendy Fenton
Chair – Coordinator, Humanitarian Practice Network
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Clara Bosco
Panellist – Senior Advisor on Civil Society Resourcing, Civicus
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Sema Genel
Panellist – Executive Director, Support to Life
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Mai Jerrar
Panellist – The East Jerusalem YMCA
Better recognition, funding and support of local humanitarian responders is long overdue. Many humanitarian organisations haven’t waited for global-level reforms within the Grand Bargain to drive the agenda forward. Instead, individuals, peer networks and organisations large and small have corrected the sector’s imbalances in their own ways.
Away from the often technical or policy debates within the Grand Bargain, there are dynamic, new developments and new opportunities for hyper-local initiatives, survivor-led activities, civil society activism and South–South cooperation. These developments and opportunities are shaping the “localisation” agenda beyond the Grand Bargain.
The formal conclusion of the five-year phase of the Grand Bargain this year raises questions for the humanitarian sector of how best to continue to make progress on localisation. To explore these issues, HPG and HPN convene a conversation exploring the activities and activism on local humanitarian action that are occurring outside of the formal policy processes and how that landscape is adapting and changing to tackle old problems not being addressed by the wider humanitarian system.
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