Paper details

Paper authors	Katja Rosenstock
In panel on	Political Economy and Politics of Humanitarianism: Is the Past Prologue?
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

The Grand Bargain commitment “More support and funding tools for national and local responders” has since its adoption in 2016 gained rhetorical prominence among international humanitarian practitioners and was mainstreamed into international humanitarian discourse as “localisation”. What localisation of humanitarian aid means in theory and practice is debated in academia and among practitioners, and post World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) research is exploring underlying assumptions that shape current understandings of localisation. Contributing to this field of research, the paper explores how localisation is rooted in pre-WHS humanitarian paradigms as well as in related disciplines. It provides a historical perspective on how localisation developed as a concept leading up to the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. Additionally, the paper analyses linkages between the evolvement of localisation and current implementation and suggests how these links can offer additional perspectives on challenges with meeting the commitment on localisation as stated in the Grand Bargain.

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