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The Secretary-General of the UN conferred that the humanitarian action should be ‘as local as possible, as international as necessary’ at the World Humanitarian Summit-2016. This call initiated the process of ‘localisation’ within the humanitarian community. Consequently, the UN agencies and a number of the international donor’s signed the commitments of Grand Bargain (GB), consequently some international organisations also signed the commitments of Charter for Change (C4C) and offered their support to the process and practice of localisation of humanitarian aid.
The consensus has been made that, ‘localisation’ refers as supporting the practice of locally-led humanitarian action. As a part of the process, the formal humanitarian sector has committed to ensure the enhanced opportunities in the field of funding, partnership values and accountability, institutional capacity strengthening and promoting roles and visibility in favour of the local organisations.
