Ian McClelland from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund discusses how innovation and localisation align to identify new and creative ways of responding to disasters.

Putting the Charter4Change commitment to stop undermining national capacity into practice

By Anne Street, Head of Humanitarian Policy, CAFOD

Sudhanshu S. Singh is the Executive Director of Humanitarian Aid International-an Indian NGO and endorser of the Charter4Change Background Humanitarian aid and humanitarian organizations have been constantly… Read more “As Local as Possible, As International as Necessary: Humanitarian Aid International’s Position on Localisation”

Koenraad Van Brabant is an independent consultant offering expertise related to working in and on volatile situations. He also plays supportive and enabling roles for collaborative action and organisational… Read more “Localisation and NGOs: Different Interpretations, Different Outcomes”

Please find below a recap of the recent Charter4Change signatories meeting and endorsers teleconference: On 27 and 28 October, Charter4Change signatories convened in London to discuss the… Read more “Summary of the Charter4Change signatories meeting and endorsers teleconference, 27-28 October 2016”

Emily Lawrence and emBOLDen Alliances On 25 April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in the Gorkha District of Nepal caused severe destruction in 14… Read more “Using local networks in emergency response”

Examining Transforming Surge from national NGO perspectives The loss of talented national staff to international organisations is a continued source of frustration for national NGOs in the… Read more “Identifying best practice and alternative approaches in INGO-national NGO collaborations”

Jonathan Potter was Executive Director of People In Aid and, after the creation of the CHS Alliance, became Executive Director of Qatar Charity UK You can’t always… Read more “Commitment 4: Address and prevent the negative impact of recruiting national NGO staff during an emergency”

Here Anne Street, Head of Humanitarian Policy at CAFOD, tells us more about the Charter4Change. The Charter4Change is an exciting step towards which aims to make a… Read more “How the Charter4Change is strengthening national and local humanitarian organisations”