Shifting power, funding, and decision-making to local and national actors is among the most important and most contested reforms in contemporary humanitarian action. This advanced programme equips senior practitioners to move localisation from rhetoric to practice, operationalising Grand Bargain commitments on quality funding, equitable partnership, capacity strengthening, and the participation of affected people in ways that genuinely transform how response is led and delivered.
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme critically examines the politics and the practice of localisation: complementary partnership, direct and quality financing, equitable risk sharing, capacity strengthening as mutual exchange, and the measurement of progress. It equips both international and national actors to lead this transition with integrity and accountability.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise the localisation agenda and Grand Bargain
- Distinguish genuine power shift from rhetoric
- Design equitable, complementary partnerships
- Lead the transfer of decision-making to local actors
- Direct quality and direct financing approaches
- Reform sub-granting and overhead practices
- Lead mutual capacity strengthening
- Reframe and share risk equitably
- Embed the participation of affected people
- Localise coordination and leadership structures
- Address power, language, and accountability imbalances
- Measure and report localisation progress
- Navigate donor and compliance constraints
- Build national actor leadership and visibility
- Sustain localisation through transitions and exits
- Anticipate emerging trends in locally led action
Course Outline
- Module 1: The Localisation Agenda & Grand Bargain
- Module 2: Genuine Power Shift vs Rhetoric
- Module 3: Designing Equitable Partnerships
- Module 4: Transferring Decision-Making
- Module 5: Quality & Direct Financing
- Module 6: Reforming Sub-Granting & Overheads
- Module 7: Mutual Capacity Strengthening
- Module 8: Equitable Risk Sharing
- Module 9: Participation of Affected People
- Module 10: Localising Coordination & Leadership
- Module 11: Power, Language & Accountability
- Module 12: Measuring Localisation Progress
- Module 13: Navigating Donor & Compliance Constraints
- Module 14: National Actor Leadership & Visibility
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Locally Led Action
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for international and national humanitarian directors, partnership and programme leads, donor and grant managers, coordination staff, and senior officers driving localisation across UN, INGO, national NGO, and donor settings.
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