Registration today: Localisation in Practice – 2nd Workshop – Assessing and strengthening capacities of local actors

Copenhagen, October 24th, 13-16

Location: ActionAid Denmark, Fælledvej 12 – Community Hall

Organised by: Save the Children Denmark, Oxfam IBIS, ActionAid Denmark & Global Focus

Register to participate: Deadline is 18th October. Use the link for registration inside the attached invitation document. Alternatively send email to maba@redbarnet.dk 

With humanitarian needs increasing faster than funds to respond, the international humanitarian aid system is incapable of adequately addressing current humanitarian needs. At the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, a Grand Bargain was negotiated to push changes towards a more effective humanitarian aid architecture. In particular the workstream ”More support and funding tools to national and local responders”, often referred to as the localisation workstream, has increasingly garnered global attention from international NGOs, national and local responders and multi-lateral and bilateral donors.

A key aspect of the transformation set out by the Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream is the strengthening of institutional capacities of local actors to ensure preparedness and response capacities in fragile contexts. And while this is recognized widely across the sector, capacity strengthening priorities often end up more focused on the needs of international actors than their local counterparts.

This event hosted by the MFA and Globalt Fokus funded Localisation in Practice project will facilitate a dialogue between key actors in current capacity strengthening processes. Gathering a combination of academics and local and international practitioners this workshop aims to highlight best practices and opportunities in current capacity strengthening policies and activities. Furthermore all participants will be encouraged to share and discuss how these practices can be improved to enable a more diverse and accommodating capacity strengthening environment.