Section outline
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These resources are more general and related to the Locally-led Action as a whole.
Resources
Resolution: Decolonisation, Anti-Racism and Locally Led Action (2022)
Resolution passed at ACFID's 2022 AGM in relation to Decolonisation, Anti-Racism and Locally Led Action
Credit: ACFIDACFID Resolution on Race, Diversity and Australian INGOs (2020)
Resolution passed at ACFID's 2020 AGM in relation to Race, Diversity and Australian INGOs
Credit: ACFIDACFID Racial Justice Resource Library (2022)
This Guide attempts to include the most relevant and useful resources for understanding and undertakingmeasures to address racism as most relevant to the (1) Australian, (2) workplace, and (3) the internationaldevelopment sector, contexts – and all three where possible.
Credit: ACFID Racial Justice CoPDylan Matthews at ACFID Conference: Transforming Partnerships in International CooperationOpens in a new tab
This recording from ACFID Conference 2023 brings Dylan Matthews, CEO of Peace Direct and Chair of CIVICUS sharing reflections from his work as an advocate for systems change, solidarity and shifting power.
Credit: ACFID/Peace DirectDecolonisation and Locally Led Development (2021)
This paper presents a set of practical options for furthering the decolonisation and locally led agendas in shared development work in the Pacific. It includes a question set for individuals to work through to reflect on their personal positioning on these issues, a set of practical proposals for trialling at individual and organisational levels, and a set of more broad-brush proposals for systemic interventions.
Credit: ACFID and La Trobe UniversityStart Network's Anti-Racist and Decolonial Framework (2022)
This framework has been developed to help Start Network, and its members understand and address the many ways in which racism and colonialism can affect our work.
Credit: Start NetworkBecoming Locally Led as an Anti-Racist Practice: A Guide to Support INGOs (2022)Downloads a Word document
This guide has been developed in response to the growing demand from the international development sector, to ensure that organisations change how they work, make decisions, and are structured and governed to become more locally led and anti-racist.
Credit: BondPower Awareness Tool: A tool for analysing power in partnerships for development (2024)Downloads a Word document
The Partos Power Awareness Tool (PAT) is developed as a tool to help make power relations in partnerships more visible. The tool allows the different stakeholders to share and monitor their insights on their decision-making practice within their projects, programs and partnerships. This makes it easier for partners to reflect on their power relations and agree on changes where necessary.
Credit: PartosNEAR Localistion Performance Measurement Framework (2019)Downloads a Word document
The purpose of this Localisation Performance Measurement Framework (LPMF) is to evidence progress made towards achieving localisation commitments. While its focus is on local and national actors, it is also relevant to international NGOs, UN agencies and donors as well as research and academic institutions that are studying or evaluating localisation.
Credit: NEARMeasuring localisation: Framework and Tools (2019)Downloads a Word document
This document outlines an approach, including a framework and some tools, that can be used to measure the activity and impact of localised humanitarian action.
Credit: PIANGO and Humanitarian Advisory GroupInter-Agency Toolkit on Localisation in Humanitarian CoordinationDownloads a Word document
This toolkit is a resource for localisation across a range of clusters and humanitarian coordination structures, with tools relevant to a wide range of practitioners. The toolkit also provides specific resources for local and national actors to strengthen their capacity for influence and leadership in coordination fora.
Credit: Global AP AoR, Save the Children and Street Child UKTime to Decolonise Aid (2021)Downloads a Word document
This report presents the findings and recommendations from consultations with activists, decision makers, academics, journalists and practitioners on current power dynamics and imbalances that exist within the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors.
Credit: Peace DirectTen Efforts to Decolonise Aid (2022)
An overview of 10 initiatives that further the decolonisation agenda in the aid and development sector, including frameworks, leadership models, funding mechanisms, policies and operational approaches.
Credit: The New HumanitarianRace, Power and Peacebuilding (2022)Downloads a Word document
This report explores how racism manifests itself in the peacebuilding sector. It builds on the findings of Time to Decolonise Aid.
Credit: Peace DirectSidekick Manifesto (2022)Downloads a Word document
The Sidekick Manifesto is a call to action for those who seek to address global poverty. It challenges us to shift our perspective, embrace humility, and work alongside local leaders to create lasting impact in the fight against poverty.
Credit: Sidekick ManifestoUnvealing the science behind ‘Shifting Power’: Launch of an academic research (2024)Downloads a Word document
This study provides a detailed examination of power dynamics and efforts to address imbalances between Northern and Southern NGOs.
Credit: PartosLocalisation in Practice: Three examples of the Dutch Relief Alliance’s collective localisation efforts (2021)Downloads a Word document
The report focuses on the Dutch Relief Alliance’s (DRA) efforts in localising humanitarian aid, particularly during the strategic period of 2018-2021. The report includes experiences from joint responses in Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, analyzing success factors and challenges.
Credit: The Dutch Relief AllianceLocalisation in Practice, Emerging indicators and Practical recommendation (2018)Downloads a Word document
This report discusses the concept of localisation in humanitarian aid. It presents a framework with seven dimensions to assess and plan for localisation in practice. The report also reflects on the contributions of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) to localisation and provides recommendations for future preparedness programs.
Credit: Action Against Hunger, Start Network, UK Aid, CDAC NetworkTransforming Partnerships in International Cooperation (2023)
The report aims to provide practical resources for civil society, donors, INGOs, and intermediaries. It is part of a series on decolonizing the sector, following two previous reports: “Time to Decolonize Aid” and “Race, Power, and Peacebuilding”.
Credit: Peace DirectCommunity-Driven Systems Change (2021)
This site includes reports and guidelines developed by Firelight through a process of inquiry, learning, co-creation and validation with CBO partners to develop a deeper understading of how change comes about at the community level, and how funders can more effectively support it.
Credit: Firelight FoundationLocalisation of Aid: Are NGOs Walking the Talk (2017)
This review looks at the current opportunities, challenges and good practice in the relationships between INGOs and local humanitarian actors. It argues that INGOs have to improve their partnership practices with local and national NGOs to better recognize and respond to their leadership, as well as to adapt accordingly their advocacy, media or fundraising work.
Credit: Shifting the Power Consortium and START NetworkUnderstanding Successful Locally Led Humanitarian Responses (2024)
This collaborative research aims to build an understanding of what a successful locally led humanitarian response looks like, how local actors perceive them, and what actions are needed by various actors to achieve success.
Credit: InteractionReframing risk: embracing compliance and risk management to benefit civil society (2023)Downloads a Word document
In Humentum’s Operationalizing Locally-Led Development webinar on “Models to Transform Risk and Compliance,” hear from TechSoup and Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) engage in a conversation about what reframing risk to support CSOs can look like in practice.
Credit: Humentum/TechSoup/Kenya Community Develoment FoundationHow colonial is your organisation?Downloads a Word document
Quiz to assess how colonial your organisation is.
Credit: Common ThreadWhat Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World (2020)Downloads a Word document
An increasing number of international organizations are moving their offices to the Global South. Still more are investing in organizational leadership by national staff. Despite this, examples of mutually agreed upon transition strategies, collaborative decision-making processes and transfers of power to local actors are rare. This setting gives rise to the need for a clearer understanding of how transitions from internationally led to locally led development can occur in responsible, effective and transformative ways. This volume is both a reflection of and response to this context.
Credit: Peace Direct/CDA Collaborative Learnig/ Search for Common GroundFrom talk to transformation: How governments can really "shift the power" towards global justice (2024)Downloads a Word document
This paper takes a critical look at whether governments in the Global North could or should have a role in contributing to these transformative changes. It also examines the risk that the terms ‘feminist’, ‘anti-racist’ ‘decolonial’ and ‘inclusive’ are co-opted by governments and international organisations keen to be seen to be ‘doing the right thing’, and lose their meaning and power.
Credit: Scotland's International Development AllianceOperationalising Locally-Led Development: Cultivating a Healthy Global Development Ecosystem (2023)
This report identifies the practical steps the sector is and should be taking to cultivate a more equitable, resilient, and accountable ecosystem for the years ahead.
Credit: Humentum/Modernising Foreign Assistance NetworkA colonial mindset': why global aid agencies need to get out of the way (2024)
The Guardian news article explaining the rationale for funding local humanitarian organisations.
Credit: The GuardianCreating Equitable South-North Partnerships: Nurturing the Vā and Voyaging the Audacious Ocean Together (2020)
Blurb: Oceanic (Pacific) women’s rights actors have insightful working knowledge and intimate lived experiences of engaging with the Global North. This research report navigates through this knowledge and experience by capturing, amplifying and representing their voices as they share their perspectives on the role of Global North organisations and the interactions they have had with them over the last 30 years. A total of 35 Pacific Island women who have been working in the women’s rights movement space over the last three decades agreed to participate in this research ‘talanoa’ (conversations).
Credit: Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki and IWDAOfakilevuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki - Enough is enough: audaciously decolonising the development and humanitarian nexus (2022)Opens in a new tab
This Mitchell Oration from the 2022 Australasian Aid Conference by Ofakilevuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki reflects on research from Creating-Equitable-South-North-Partnerships_Full-Report.pdf (sistalibrary.com.vu) and the speaker's experiences of colonisation in the humanitarian and development space in Tonga.
Credit: Australasian Aid ConferenceThe nine roles that intermediaries can play in international cooperation (2023)
The document identifies nine roles for intermediaries in international cooperation, including interpreter, knowledge broker, trainer, convenor, connector, advocate, watchdog, critical friend, and sidekick.
Credit: Peace Direct
