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Updates, perspectives, and media coverage from across our movement.

Learning, Localisation in Action, Localisation Labs, Members In Action, Movement Building

NEAR MENA Regional Convening Wrap Up and Insights

Aid Financing, Media, UN Reform

EL PAIS: International cuts to development aid foreshadow profound changes to the system: ‘We are terrified of going back to the 1980s’

Advocacy & Policy, Grand Bargain

Grand Bargain New Report: Survey Analysis

Advocacy & Policy, Flagship Research, Learning, Localisation in Action, Localisation Labs, Members In Action, Movement Building

Rhythms of Solidarity: NEAR’s First Townhall of 2026

Advocacy & Policy, Field Voices, Learning, Localisation in Action, Localisation Labs, Members In Action, Movement Building

The Blank Template: What We Learned When the Training Refused to Be One

Aid Financing, Media

THE GUARDIAN: A quarter of young Africans believe USAID cuts could be positive, survey finds

Aid Financing, Media

PROXIMATE: The Hidden Infrastructure of Climate Finance

Advisory Panel, Advocacy & Policy, Members In Action

Q & A with Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action

Advisory Panel, Advocacy & Policy, Members In Action

Embracing the ecosystem: a discussion of the findings of the Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action

Advisory Panel, Advocacy & Policy, Members In Action

Delivering an ecosystem approach to humanitarian action

Flagship Research, Localisation in Action, Media

Moving from ‘Localisation’ to Building More Locally-Led Aid Ecosystems

Localisation in Action, Members In Action, Movement Building

Navigating Many Currents: The Future of Locally Led Impact