In November 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power laid out a vision for international development with a big goal: by the end of 2025,…...
Donor approaches to overheads for local and national partners
Ensuring that local and national actors can access overheads has become a key focus for humanitarian reform efforts over the past year. Locally-led humanitarian response is more effective, more efficient…...
Inclusive Language Guide
Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that…...
“Co-investigators but with different power”: Local voices on the localization of humanitarian research
Humanitarian research has long been dominated by institutions from the Global North (GN), while institutions and researchers from the Global South (GS) have been largely absent or relegated to minor…...
On the Right Tack: Reflections on Coalition-Building Initiatives Across The Asia Foundation
Coalitionsgroups of organizations and individuals that work together to pursue a common policy goal or reformare crucial to development. Some of The Asia Foundation's longest-standing and most successful development programs…...
Guidance: How to implement the Grand Bargain commitments at the country-level?
This was developed by the Grand Bargain Secretariat with the aim to translate the results achieved so far into practical examples of implementation and also to strengthen the linkages with…...
Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2023
Following a reformulation of the Grand Bargain priorities and structure (the Grand Bargain 2.0 framework) in 2020 and 2021, 2022 saw a consolidation of action at the political level, which…...
The nine roles that intermediaries can play in international cooperation
In recent years, there has been growing scrutiny of the largely unchanged role that INGOs have played in humanitarian, development and peacebuilding efforts. This scrutiny includes the push towards greater…...
From Operations to Outcomes: A Policy Blueprint for Locally-Led Development
Twenty global thought-leaders and 2,000 participants from over 100 countries discussed what it will take to operationalize locally-led development. This report outlines insights from those discussions and key policy recommendations…...
Looking Forward: Connecting Futures Thinking Mediation and Reconciliation
It can seem impossible for those caught up in violent conflict and its consequences to find space to imagine what peace might look like. Our new briefing paper explains how…...