EU/DG ECHO guidance note - Promoting Equitable Partnerships with Local Responders in Humanitarian Settings

During the European Humanitarian Forum 2023, the new DG ECHO policy on equitable partnerships with local responders in humanitarian settings has been announced.

It will guide staff and partners to move forward towards a more inclusive and equitable localisation agenda.

"This guidance document seeks ways of translating the Grand Bargain commitments into concrete action, while recognising that DG ECHO has already embarked on numerous projects and programmes that support localisation, although not yet in a systematic manner. The aim is to ensure that DG ECHO has in place the appropriate policy framework, and the practical tools to implement the commitments set out above, at both headquarter and field office levels, through its advocacy, normative work and programming."