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Shaping a way forward
It is promising that people-centred humanitarian action has become such a key focus of reform for humanitarian actors, including donors and the United Nations.
The concept of people-centred approaches, though loosely defined, increasingly appears to serve as a unifying umbrella for various reform agendas—such as localisation, accountability to affected populations (AAP), and inclusion—agendas that have, for the most part, been pursued separately in both policy and practice. While research has called for appropriate consideration of the benefits of bringing these agendas together (Barbelet et al., 2022; Lough et al., 2022), there is a risk that a people-centred focus could conflate the three distinct reform areas, rather than connect them in their synergies.
This briefing is based on a larger review of existing evidence on localisation, AAP and inclusion ‘Harnessing evidence and learning for people-centred humanitarian action’