For peacebuilding to be more effective and sustainable, local communities need to be in control of their own peacebuilding efforts. This means that donors and intermediary funders should invest in pr
Localizing Humanitarian Action in Africa
responding to crises remain severely underfunded, particularly in Africa, where civil society organizations (CSOs) receive insufficient funding from African and international actors alike. African fu
Good Peacebuilding Financing: Recommendations for Revitalizing Commitments
The Good Peacebuilding Financing (GPF) initiative has been mooted at an opportune moment when global leaders’ attention will be focused on peacebuilding, during the upcoming UN High-level Meeting on
Localisation only pays lip service to fixing aid’s colonial legacy
“Localisation” has become a ubiquitous term among humanitarians in recent years, used to refer to putting more power and funding in the hands of “local responders”. The term is simple, it feels good,
Governance for System Change
same goes for the mental models and processes we use to govern system change work. In fact, governance for system change may not look much like traditional governance at all. Webster’s defines gov
Decolonizing International Development
Policy papers from women of color.
Investing in Equity: Creating Equitable Funding for Women Peacebuilders
Although women are vital to the success and sustainability of peace efforts, and despite progress made by the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda over the past two decades, women peacebuilders rem
Overcoming Barriers to Resourcing Young Peacebuilders
Funding for youth-led peacebuilding remains a challenge, despite aglobal recognition of the important role that young peacebuilders playin peacebuilding and sustaining peace. This paper explores stra
Localisation Re-imagined: Regenerating the polyculture of humanitarianism
‘Localisation re-imagined’ is ALNAP’s six-part essay series on locally-led humanitarian action authored by Arbie Baguios, founder and researcher at Aid Re-imagined. Each of the essays, which are publ
Listening and Localisation
This research aims to uncover how the calls for radical change to the spatialised power relations between the Global South and Global North in the humanitarian system were voiced and heard, and how t