Localisation in Coordination and the Challenges
Channel: Global Protection Cluster GPC
Date: 2019-06-18

Recognising the value of localisation and building on the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) commitments, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) and its four Areas of Responsibilities (AoRs) are seeking to meet the commitments made with regards to localisation and ensure that protection response strategies and coordination mechanisms are guided by the principle – “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The GPC Localisation initiative is therefore an approach that supports, when appropriate, local partners to take their rightful place at the centre of the humanitarian system and to influence and shape the humanitarian strategies and interventions that affect them, ensuring they have a voice in coordination mechanisms and can bring vital information about protection needs on the ground. This means ensuring and increasing local actors’ engagement in both field coordination mechanisms and global strategic decision making. To contribute to this objective, the GPC piloted with the support of the CP AoR, the IRC, and Cluster Coordinators in the field, the localisation initiative in 7 countries (Nigeria, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Libya, Myanmar and Pakistan) over the course of 2017-2018, analysing local actors’ engagement in protection coordination groups, identifying good practices, gaps and challenges as well as developing guidance and tools to advance the localisation agenda.

In this webcast we:
• Highlight the potential that coordination groups represent to advance the localisation agenda.
• Present key trends, challenges and lessons learned from GPC field support missions.
• Hear from local partners and Cluster Coordinators on their experience to making the localisation agenda a reality.

Panelist:

- Marie Emilie Dozin - Protection Coordinator - IRC

Voices from the field:

- Mohammad Khan -  Protection Cluster Coordinator in Iraq
- Muhammad Hamzah Malik - Motivational Humanitarian Management  in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan