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.
Why should you be boycotting the UAE in solidarity with Sudan?
If you’ve been following what's been happening in Sudan over the past few years, you know just how critical it is to be joining in solidarity with those calling for a boycott of the UAE (and its complicit partners). Partners who have financed, armed, and facilitated the RSF's atrocities in Sudan. Atrocities that include documented cases of genocide, torture, rape, and sexual slavery.
Our network put together an easy-to-read, 5-slide explainer describing the complicity + a few recommendations on how you can support boycott efforts in your own community.
Decolonizing Travel with The Hybrid Tours.
Locally Led family The Hybrid Tours aims to decolonize the travel and tourism sector by curating immersive experiences led and guided by activists, organizers, artists, and tour guides local to the countries they take you to.
Sawiyan’s transformative pedagogy.
Learn about the power of a refugee-led educational initiative, with its own original pedagogy, transforming the way their communities learn.
Statement on the abuse and critical vulnerability of Sudanese in Egypt.
Locally Led’s statement on the abuse and critical vulnerability of Sudanese refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities in Egypt.
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?
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.
5 tips from our Listener’s Guidebook for organizers + researchers.
Five tips to curating strong, yet respectful questions for participatory research.
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.