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Country Insights, humanitarian actors will help unpack some of the biggest challenges facing the aid community. This series amplifies the perspectives of those working most closely to conflict with an intimate understanding of disaster and humanitarian contexts.
In our first piece, the Humanitarian Agenda asked aid workers their views about ongoing localization efforts and the impact on organizational response. For the past five years, localization has emerged as a critical topic. Localization efforts seek to increase the amount of aid funding given directly to local organizations and vulnerable populations in a humanitarian crisis to achieve better cost efficiencies and ensure aid is tailored to a local context. The pandemic has revitalized debates around power structures within humanitarian action and the increased responsibilities carried by country-based staff amid travel restrictions.