Cuts left and right: The United States and beyond In early 2025, the global aid system was shaken when the United States government (USG) announced an Executive Order that suddenly cut or suspended...
Co-authored by Ms. Sumera Javeed from Hands Welfare Foundation and Zartasha Niazi from IDEA In an increasingly volatile world where humanitarian crises are becoming more complex and frequent, the...
On 17 April, the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) sounded the alarm1: In addition to mass displacement, famine, relentless bombardment, and what Palestinian2 and United Nations experts3 have decried as...
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Centring Local Solutions to Turn Rhetoric into Accountability The humanitarian system is facing a crisis not just of funding, but of legitimacy. Donors are cutting funding, multilateral platforms are...
Joint statement from civil society representatives in response to Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher’s announcement of the ‘Humanitarian Reset’ initiative As civil society from the Global...
Banda Aceh, 21 Agustus 2024 – The Indonesian Development – Humanitarian Alliance (AP-KI) and the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR) organized the Indonesian Localisation Conference and...
We are pleased to share with you Charter4Change, NEAR & A4EP recommendations for the next phase of the Grand Bargain (2023-2026) Charter4Change, NEAR & A4EP welcome the proposed priority given to...
"Assessing the Impact of the Grand Bargain on Local and National NGOs: Analysis of Voices from Local Leaders" presents findings from a survey conducted by NEAR. The survey was distributed among NEAR...
NEAR was launched on the fringes of the World Humanitarian Summit 2016 and has been a consistent partner, advocate, critic, and ultimately signatory to one of the central outcomes of this historic...
By Merry Fitzpatrick, Isabella Cordua, Teddy Atim, Anita Kattakuzhy, and Kyra Conciatori Executive summary Humanitarian research has long been dominated by institutions from the Global North (GN),...
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The global need for humanitarian assistance and protection continues to increase. At the time of writing, it is expected that a staggering 339 million people – one in every 23 people on the planet –...
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Through its global Change Fund, The Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR) this week granted emergency funding to four local organisations leading the response to humanitarian crises in South...
Section 1. Introduction The first ever World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 outlined the Grand Bargain Commitments that have a transformative potential for the humanitarian sector. However, there is...
Executive Summary: NEAR, the Network for Empowered Aid Response was created from the desire by local and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin...
The 2017 Grand Bargain signatory reports on Workstream 2 evidence some encouraging progress on meeting the 6 localisation commitments to provide more support and funding tools for national and local...
A new global network for local and national organizations is designed to help to close the widening gap between aid resources and people in need.
