Research & Knowledge

Locally Led publishes, facilitates, and co-creates research, briefings, and reporting on the issues, lived experiences, and causes most important to those we support.

Next up in 2025.

Since 2021, we’ve been listening and learning from organizers, advocates, and leaders of community-based organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, and North America on kinds of relationships, physical spaces, support networks, and approaches to ‘care’ is needed to empower them to support, accompany, and advocate for the communities they stand in solidarity with.

What we’ve learned has informed our first set of partnerships, directly informed our 2025-2026 programming, influenced the makeup of our Advisory Collective, and deeply impacted our philosophical approach to relationship building.

This insight has also provided Locally Led and our growing collective network with a unique positionality that will allow us to directly support, platform, and accompany perspective, voice, research, and knowledge-building being produced by those we work in solidarity with.

Reports, briefing, and perspective.

Reports, briefing, and perspective from the communities, issues, and events most important to those we accompany.

We’d love to connect and hear your story.
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We’d love to connect and hear your story.

We've spent the last year listening and learning from leaders of community-based organizations, advocates, and organizers from throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America. Is there someone in your community, city, or town you think we should 'listen' to?

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The Cost of Complicity
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The Cost of Complicity

Our new editorial on the shameful, moral apathy shown by the 'progressive' Global North in the face of atrocities in Sudan/apartheid in Palestine, what this shows us about the life they value, and how we must make them pay the cost of their complicity.

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Report
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Report

What an examination of refugee response framework in Jordan tells us about the humanitarian sector’s real feelings on localization, impartial aid, and humanitarian principles.

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How keeping a promise led me to Locally Led.
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How keeping a promise led me to Locally Led.

No matter what they say or promise, the aid and development sector is failing to cede power and ownership to locally and refugee-led organizations. The data shows it, I witnessed it, and the consequences are critical. 

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