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This website aims to provide a simple, searchable database of articles related to local humanitarian assistance. This database is for anyone attempting to design programs, policy, or new research based on the available evidence. The Feinstein International Center built and maintains this evolving database.

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Missed opportunities: the case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

Ramalingam, Gray, Cerruti (ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund)

Missed Out: the role of local actors in South Sudan

Tanner, Moro (Christian Aid, CAFOD, Oxfam, Tearfund)

More than the money: localisation in practice

de Geoffroy, Grunewald (URD, Trocaire)

More than the money: localisation in practice

de Geoffroy, Grunewald (URD, Trocaire)

Moving beyond rhetoric: participation with populations displaced by conflict or natural disasters

Miller, Stoltz (Brookings Institute)

Mozambique: a case study in the role of the affected state

Foley (ODI)

Myanmar - surviving the storm: self-protection and survival in the Delta

South, Kenpel, Perhult (L2GP)

Once removed: lessons and challenges in remote management of humanitarian operations for insecure areas

Stoddard, Harmer, Renouf (Humanitarian Outcomes)

Participatory capacity-building in Colombia

Zapater (Forced Migration Review)

Participatory stakeholder analysis: World Humanitarian Summit regional consultation for the Middle East and North Africa

AUthor unspecified (World Humanitarian Summit)

Partnerships in crisis: collaboration between international and local organizations in disrupted societies

Cambanis, Ehmann, Garcia, Hagedorn, Hiddleston, Hu, Lang, Larsen, Smith, Taguchi, Youdelman (Woodrow Wilson School of Graduate Policy, Princeton University)

Partnerships with local authorities in responding to humanitarian crises: Lebanon

Ciacci (Oxfam Italia)

Patronage or partnerships: local capacity-building in humanitarian crises

Smillie (Kumarian Press)

Protection in the occupied Palestinian territories

Eguiguren, Saadeh (L2GP)

Redefining the humanitarian space: the Kachin IDP crisis in Myanmar

Jacquet, O'Loughlin (Humanitarian Exchange)

Regime change for humanitarian aid

Barnett, Walker (Foreign Affairs)

Regional organisations and humanitarian action: rethinking regional engagement

Taraboulsi, Krebs, Zyck, Willitts-King (HPG)

Rehabilitation in complex political emergencies: is rebuilding civil society an answer?

Harvey (Disasters Journal)

Responding to changing needs? Challenges and opportunities for humanitarian action

Ramalingam, Mitchell (ALNAP)

Restoring Humanity: Synthesis of consultation process of World Humanitarian Summit

Author unspecified (World Humanitarian Summit)

Righting the wrong: strengthening local humanitarian leadership to save lives and strengthen communities

Author unspecified (Oxfam)

Role of the affected state: Peruvian earthquake

Elhawary, Castillo (ODI)

Safety with dignity: integrating community-based protection into humanitarian programming

Berry, Reddy (HPN)

Self-protection in Southeast Burma

South, Perhult (L2GP)

South Sudan: waiting for peace to come

Harragin (L2GP)