The Grand Bargain (GB) is coming to an end in 2021 without achieving much on the 51 commitments made in 2016. The GB commitments largely remained confined to the headquarters of the signatories without proper dissemination to humanitarian actors on the ground. The Agenda for Humanity aimed at shrinking the humanitarian needs, but the humanitarian […]
“Grand Bargain Signatories engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership and aim to reinforce rather than replace local and national capacities”. The intent of the Grand Bargain was transformational, not decentralisation or multi-nationalisation of International Organisations. However, the loophole in the IASC definition of local and national actors is diverting from […]
Statement from Alliance 4 Empowering Partnerships World Humanitarian Day 2019 On the first anniversary of A4EP, we, the International Conveners of the Alliance for Empowering Partnerships (www.a4ep.net), would like to pay tribute to the local and national women humanitarians who have dedicated their lives to their work, but often remain unacknowledged. Details report click here.