Research & Knowledge

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

Next up in 2024.

This year we’re looking forward to the culmination of an ongoing study surveying leaders or community-based organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, and North America on how they envision what holistic, purposeful relationship with those who finance and support them.

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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A Policy Briefing
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A Policy Briefing

A policy briefing for our report ‘Is The Humanitarian Sector Practicing What It Preaches?’

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Executive Summary
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Executive Summary

Executive Summary for our report Is The Humanitarian Sector Practicing What It Preaches?’

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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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