Michael Mosselmans

I'm confused that WFP annual Grand Bargain self-reporting says it provided 13.9% of its humanitarian funding to local actors but at today's Global Partnerships Conference WFP asserted that it provides 50% of its humanitarian funding to local actors. Well done to WFP if it does

Thanks to @CAFOD for inter alia highlighting @christian_aid 's people-centred inspiring @StartNetwork-supported sclr approach with our partners Koral and Service Jesuites aux Migrants in Haiti during their #GlobalPartnersConference scaling local leadership side-event

Yvette Cooper tells @FCDOGovUK #GlobalPartnershipsConference local churches and local faith actors are a key pillar of local humanitarian action + often churches + churchgoers in the UK are among the first + most generous supporters + givers when a humanitarian crisis strikes

Yvette Cooper tells #FCDO #GlobalPartnershipsConference Israel's blocking humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza is utterly indefensible - we must use all diplomatic & political levers to enable humanitarian aid to flow freely & unhindered to tens of 1000s of hungry people in Gaza

Hanin Ahmed co-founder Old Omdurman Sudan Emergency Response Room tells #GlobalPartnershipsConference far too little % of global humanitarian aid reaches local actors directly & 64% is captured by large UN agencies - a much more equitable donor funds allocation is badly needed

Angelina Nyajima @HopeRestoratio3 tells @FCDOGovUK #GlobalPartnershipsConference local NGOs lack funds as donors say they lack capacity but they have unparalleled capacity to understand community needs, reach communities internat actors can't & protect & assist most vulnerable

Jennifer Larbie @christian_aid explains why the #GlobalPartnershipsConference matters and calls on the UK Govt to take bold action on debt relief

Lubna Kanawati #WomenNowForDevelopment Syria advises #HNPW a challenge as we increase funding to local actors is that complex donor requirements and prejudices tend to favouritise funding for large-scale man-led powerful local actors ahead of women-led orgs or grassroots groups

Local leaders #HNPW call for #GrandBargain commitments to be actioned not talked about; for more resources + power in policy +!coordination forums to transfer to local actors; + for local actors to lead + design human policy conversations rather than have a seat on the panel

Good to see distinguished local leaders from Afghanistan DRC S Sudan + Yemen taking centre stage with @UNReliefChief at #HNPW to tell humanitarians in Geneva what needs to change to deliver a truly locally-led system

Anna Tazita #womenforChange S Sudan assessing progress/room for improvement in localisation at #HNPW welcomes @christianaid empowering approach to partnerships in S Sudan stepping back to let locals lead + welcomes Save the Children withdrawal from UN CBPFs in favour of locals

Dominic Stillhart Swiss Humanitarian Aid tells #HNPW in sending 1000s of internat staff to crisis contexts + creating layer upon layer of new processes rules + systems in last 30 years humanitarian sector lost our way +forgot local actors are best placed to lead in their contexts

Good to be part of strong @christianaid team @AidExGlobal energetically spreading the word to Geneva humanitarian community about people-centred Christian Aid programming modalities eg sclr, locally-led anticipatory action + locally-led cash hoping to encourage peers to replicate

Good to join at John Ede of @Charter4Change panel at @AidExGlobal on financing localisation to share financing approaches @christianaid is using including sclr, locally-led anticipatory action, locally-led pooled funds, Assess and Assist and @StartNetwork Start Ready

Good to be part of reset/localisation panel at @aidex with @BritishRedCross @Charter4Change @WFP @CHIDDOSSudan @noradno promoting more support for mutual aid, sclr ICR-sharing,DDP, more diversity/pluralism in donor funding + more listening to local partner asks + feedback

Halima #OXFAM tells #AIDEX international humanitarian actors could do a lot more to recognise and include important contribution of diasporas to humanitarian agenda which sometimes faith-based humanitarian organisations are better-placed to engage with

At end of @StartNetwork Assembly Start leaders reflect on Start's journey from a pub to 11 hubs and stress the importance of flipping the script, creating the conditions for harmony to prevail, and knowing our limitations and what we do best

Local leaders at @StartNetwork Assembly express concern signatories to @Charter4Change @GrandBargain_ & #PledgeForChange have made too little progress implementing their commitments: we shld practice what we preach + call for scale up of due diligence passporting 2 reduce burdens