World: Delivering on localisation: Why overheads for local partners must be additional, not split

Country: World Source: Norwegian Refugee Council Please refer to the attached file. Localisation is a central commitment of humanitarian reform, intended to make response more efficient, more effective, and more accountable to affected people. As few donors can directly fund a diverse array of local and national actors (LNAs), intermediary funding — through pooled funds, INGOs, and UN agencies — remains an essential channel for supporting this agenda. The overhead costs that allow intermediaries