On March 29, 2023, Welcome Neighbor STL put forth their second Big Supper Club, a spin on their regular Supper Club events. At the typical Super Club events, one of Welcome Neighbor’s refugee chefs caters a meal, and the proceeds of the event go directly back to the refugee chef.
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