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Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 79 - Localisation and local humanitarian action
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The theme of this edition of
Humanitarian Exchange is localisation+ and local humanitarian action. Five years ago this week, donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) committed within the Grand Bargain to increase multi-year investments in the institutional capacities of local and national responders, and to provide at least 25% of humanitarian funding to them as directly as possible. Since then, there is increasing consensus at policy and normative level, underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic, that local leadership should be supported. Localisation has gone from a fringe conversation among policy-makers and aid agencies in 2016 to a formal priority under the Grand Bargain. Wider global movements on anti-racism and decolonisation ha
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In a pre-recorded briefing with President Duterte aired late Tuesday, Feb. 23, DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista said that the funds and needed assistance are ready to help the survivors.
“As a whole, we have enough funds and family food packs to support the victims of the typhoon,” Bautista told the President.
Among the initial interventions of the DSWD, Bautista said, is the provision of 3,500 family food packs during the typhoon. The beneficiaries were from Marihatag del Sur and Tandag, Surigao del Sur.
“Some of the family food packs were strategically prepositioned in a way that any municipality or city that necessitates immediate assistance, then we tapped the nearby warehouse,” Bautista added.