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Lubna Kanawati #WomenNowForDevelopment Syria advises #HNPW a challenge as we increase funding to local actors is that complex donor requirements and prejudices tend to favouritise funding for large-scale man-led powerful local actors ahead of women-led orgs or grassroots groups

Local leaders #HNPW call for #GrandBargain commitments to be actioned not talked about; for more resources + power in policy +!coordination forums to transfer to local actors; + for local actors to lead + design human policy conversations rather than have a seat on the panel

Good to see distinguished local leaders from Afghanistan DRC S Sudan + Yemen taking centre stage with @UNReliefChief at #HNPW to tell humanitarians in Geneva what needs to change to deliver a truly locally-led system

Anna Tazita #womenforChange S Sudan assessing progress/room for improvement in localisation at #HNPW welcomes @christianaid empowering approach to partnerships in S Sudan stepping back to let locals lead + welcomes Save the Children withdrawal from UN CBPFs in favour of locals

Dominic Stillhart Swiss Humanitarian Aid tells #HNPW in sending 1000s of internat staff to crisis contexts + creating layer upon layer of new processes rules + systems in last 30 years humanitarian sector lost our way +forgot local actors are best placed to lead in their contexts

@UNReliefChief tells #HNPW whilst some progress has been made international actors need to stop marking local actors homework, cede more space to local actors in humanitarian leadership forums and think boldly about how best to get out of the way of local actors

Many congrats to Stephanie Antoun @LHDFlb and Matthew Tebbutt @christian_aid for being nominated this year's @Charter4Change localisation heroes of the year award (in succession to their illustrious 2024predecessors Mai Jarrar East Jerusalem YMCA and Nok van den Langenberg CARE)

@christianaid did some data-crunching to get a better handle on whether we live up to our @Charter4Change and @GrandBargain_ commitments on flexible + quality humanitarian funding to identify where we must improve (with a bit of advice from @trocaire) christian-aid.org.uk/resources/our-…

Good to be part of strong @christianaid team @AidExGlobal energetically spreading the word to Geneva humanitarian community about people-centred Christian Aid programming modalities eg sclr, locally-led anticipatory action + locally-led cash hoping to encourage peers to replicate

Good to join at John Ede of @Charter4Change panel at @AidExGlobal on financing localisation to share financing approaches @christianaid is using including sclr, locally-led anticipatory action, locally-led pooled funds, Assess and Assist and @StartNetwork Start Ready

Good to be part of reset/localisation panel at @aidex with @BritishRedCross @Charter4Change @WFP @CHIDDOSSudan @noradno promoting more support for mutual aid, sclr ICR-sharing,DDP, more diversity/pluralism in donor funding + more listening to local partner asks + feedback

@VOICEeu_ panel at @AidExGlobal led by Maria Groenewald panelists discuss and advise on how to combat disinformation in crisis and stress key importance of supporting and investing in local journalism

Halima #OXFAM tells #AIDEX international humanitarian actors could do a lot more to recognise and include important contribution of diasporas to humanitarian agenda which sometimes faith-based humanitarian organisations are better-placed to engage with

At end of @StartNetwork Assembly Start leaders reflect on Start's journey from a pub to 11 hubs and stress the importance of flipping the script, creating the conditions for harmony to prevail, and knowing our limitations and what we do best

Local leaders at @StartNetwork Assembly express concern signatories to @Charter4Change @GrandBargain_ & #PledgeForChange have made too little progress implementing their commitments: we shld practice what we preach + call for scale up of due diligence passporting 2 reduce burdens

Important #StartNetwork discussion on the immense challenges facing IHL in Gaza - great to hear inspiring @christianaid and @oxfamgb Gaza partner telling us more about the disastrous humanitarian situation there & heroic work of Palestinian local actors in impossible conditions

Astonishing revelations from key humanitarian sector luminaries at the Start annual meeting in Reading. What goes in Reading stays in Reading.

@HowardMollett @CAFOD recommends to @StartNetwork to consider scope to build on @Charter4Change thinking on scope for promoting local intermediaries and emerging prime switch modalities to help mitigate some member concerns to increase proportion of funds reaching local members

@SanjSrikanthan @StartNetwork chair reflects on a busy and productive year for Start with growing number of donors, growing number of members, decentralising power, and very fast humanitarian action from crisis to decision to delivery in a very challenging operating environment