Recent Charter4Change publications and reports:

• C4C Open Letter to Jan Egeland July 2021
• C4C Spotlight 2021 – Summary from the C4C Annual Progress Report 2021
• C4C Joint analysis and recommendations for the GB Annual Meeting 2021
• “Walking the talk! Moving from commitments to action in Philippines 5 years since the World Humanitarian Summit” – Philippines Country level dialogue led by the Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (ECOWEB) in collaboration with the UN OCHA, OXFAM Philippines, A4EP and the UNRC office
• Charter4Change and NEAR event at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2021 Session – Centring local leadership in humanitarian coordination – A dialogue between national civil society networks and international coordination actors
• Charter4Change recommendations on Grand Bargain 2.0
• C4C-DRC Advocacy Note for the Localisation of Humanitarian Aid  (English version and French version)
• The Future of Charter4Change paper
• Charter4Change Annual Meeting 2020 Communiqué
• Strategic Plan of the C4C-DRC country-level group in Democratic Republic of Congo 2021-2023 (English version and French version)
• Charter4Change Endorsers Survey Report 2020
• Charter for Change Annual Meeting, 8-10 December 2020 Brochure (English, French and Spanish versions available)
• Charter of Accountability of Endorsers (COA) (English version and French version)
• Ways Forward for the Grand Bargain – Charter4Change and A4EP recommendations Sept 2020
• C4C Annual Progress Report 2020
• Open Letter to International Humanitarian Donors on World Humanitarian Day from the C4C Working Group in Uganda
• Letter to C4C signatories from C4C endorsers in taking forward the Charter4Change commitments in Signatories’ response to COVID-19
• Humanitarian Funding, Partnerships and Coordination in the COVID-19 crisis: Perspectives from local women-led organisations and women’s rights organisations – Joint Agency Policy Brief
• ‘From Geneva to Goma’ Charter for Change Annual Progress Report 2019-2020 – Preview of findings
• ‘Towards Risk Sharing – Risk Management and Localisation in the Covid19 response and beyond’, 11th June 2016, co-hosted by Charter4Change, KUNO, Dutch Relief Alliance, Global Interagency Security Forum, CAFOD and CORDAID
• Highlights and Ways Forward: Synopsis of Grand Bargain Signatories’ Achievements and Challenges Implementing their Grand Bargain WS 2 Commitments on Localisation 2020

C4C Information Materials for C4C ENDORSERS AND LOCAL/NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Charter4Change – PPT for LNNGOs 2021 and Charter4Change Handout for LNNGOs 2021
• Structure of the Charter for Change 2021

Past Charter4Change publications and reports:

• C4C COVID-19 CBPF Localization Lobby Brief
• C4C Annual Meeting Communique 2019
• C4C Annual Progress Report 2019
• C4C ALTP Recs GB Localisation June 2019
• C4C Policy Recommendations June 2019
• C4C ALTP Analysis of Grand Bargain Signatory Reporting June 2019
• Charter4Change Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) Brief Feb 2019
• Annual Charter4Change Progress Report 2018
• Oslo Meeting Charter4Change Report December 2018
• Oslo Meeting Charter4Change Communique December 2018
• Charter4Change Endorsers Survey Analysis Report PowerPoint 2018
• Charter4Change Endorsers Survey Analysis Report 2018
• Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) Localisation Presentation
• Charter4Change 2nd Year Progress Report Presentation
• The second Charter4Change implementation progress report, From Commitments to Action, is now available here.
• A Synopsis of Grand Bargain Signatories’ Achievements and Challenges  Implementing their Grand Bargain Workstream 2 Commitments on Localisation and accompanying statement by Anne Street, Head of Humanitarian Policy at CAFOD (June 2018, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, CRS, Oxfam and the NEAR Network)
• 2018 United Nations-ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment, Summary of Charter4Change/START Network side-event
• From Commitments to Action: Charter4Change signatories report on progress made, and challenges encountered, implementing the Charter’s 8 commitments (June 2017, with contributions and input from Charter4Change signatories).
• Australian government presentation: UN-ECOSOC HAS Localisation Side Event (June 2018)
• Charter4Change second annual meeting, report and outcomes summary

Other useful resources on the localisation of humanitarian aid:

Funding:

• Can Grand Bargain signatories reach the 25% target by 2020? (and Executive Summary) (May 2017, Local2Global)
• Future Humanitarian Financing: Looking Beyond the Crisis (May 2015, CAFOD, FAO, World Vision International)
• Funding of Local and National Humanitarian Actors (May 2015, Local to Global Protection) – Interactive analysis can be found at www.local2global.info
• How can donor requirements be reformed to better support efforts to strengthen local humanitarian capacity (2015, START Network)
• Funding at the sharp end: Investing in national NGO response capacity (July 2014, Caritas Internationalis, CAFOD)
• The Humanitarian Economy (July 2015, IRIN)
• It’s all about the money (July 2015, IRIN, Louise Redvers)
• The Humanitarian one percent (July 2015, IRIN, Louise Redvers)

Partnership:

• Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the Typhoon Haiyan response (September 2014, ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Tearfund)
• Missed Opportunities: the case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses (2013, ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Tearfund)
• Opportunity Knocks: Realising the potential of partnership in the Nepal earthquake response (2016, ActionAid, CAFOD, Care, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Tearfund)

Transparency:

•  Better Information for a Better Response (2016, Development Initiatives)

Human Resources:

•  Time for HR to Step Up: Policy-to-Practice Paper (January 2017, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief, Tearfund, Start Network)
• Time to Move On: National perspectives on transforming surge capacity (January 2017, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief, Tearfund, Start Network)

World Humanitarian Summit:

• Reinforce Local Systems and Invest in Local Capacities: Analytical Paper on WHS self-reporting on Agenda for Humanity Transformation 4A and 5A (July 2018, ActionAid, ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, Christian Aid, Humanitarian Aid International and UN-OCHA)
• A more Dignified and Equitable Humanitarian System: How to Truly Localise Aid (July 2015, Adeso)
• Turning the Humanitarian System on its Head (July 2015, Oxfam)
• Missed Opportunities No More: An Agenda for Change (June 2015, ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Tearfund)
• The World Humanitarian Summit: Putting people at the centre (January 2015, ACT Alliance)
• Making the World Humanitarian Summit worth the climb (December 2014, Christian Aid)

Country and Context Case Studies:

• An Appeal to Grand Bargain and Charter4Change Signatories responding to the Kerala (India) Flood Response (2018, Alliance for Empowering Partnership)
• Australian government presentation from localisation side-event, ECOSOC-HAS (2018)
• Learning from survivor and community-led crisis responses in the Philippines (2018, Regina “Nanette” Antequisa of ECOWEB (Philippines) and Justin Corbett from the Local2Global Protection initiative)
• Concept Note: Integration of Grand Bargain Principles in FDMN (Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals) Relief (2018, Rezaul Chowdhury, COAST Bangladesh)
• The Ukraine Crisis Response (and Executive Summary) (2017, Caritas Ukraine and CRS)
• More than the Money-Localisation in practice-Full report (2017, Trocaire)
• Towards a localised humanitarian response: case studies from India (2017, Humanitarian Aid International, Sudhanshu S. Singh)
• The People First Impact Method  (2017, The Johanniter, Dr Inez Kipfer-Didavi)
• More than the Money-Localisation in practice/  Plus que de l’argent: la localisation en pratique  (2017, Trocaire)
• Localisation in Practice: A Pacific Case Study (2016, CARE)
• We know our wounds: National and local organisations involved in humanitarian response in Lebanon (2016, ALNAP)
• Learning from exposure: How decades of disaster and armed conflict have shaped Colombian NGOs (2016, ALNAP)

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