1. Are we closing the localisation rhetoric reality gap?
Michael Mosselmans Christian Aid ACT Alliance

2. What is localisation?
More support to national and local frontline responders
Reinforce do not replace national and local systems
Invest in local capacities

3. Why localise? Local actors: know the risks of vulnerable communities
struggle to sustain adequate resources
need predictable financing

4. Communities in Bangladesh discuss emergency response with NAHAB network of local organisations

5. Grand Bargain Invest in capacity Remove barriers
Include in coordination
25% by 2020
Localisation marker
Pooled funds

6. Progress 2% of funding secured
4 Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies strengthened
31 Charter for Change signatories
59 stakeholders report progress to UN
$128m from Country Based Pooled Funds
230 women’s organisations
2017 localisation marker

7. Local NGOs distribute relief items to survivors of mudslide disaster in Sierra Leone

8. Challenges Local and national government Poor data Low funding
Risk aversion
Competition for resources
No funding for core capacities in peacetime
Reluctance to relinquish power

9. Ways forward Donor incentives Due diligence Funding capacity
Pooled funds
Charter for Change
Survivor-led response

10. Unconditional cash transfer for Mushimari communities in Borno, Northern Nigeria