10 Lessons in Localisation: Making aid work for communities - Softcover

Walsh, Sinead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788534093 ISBN 13: 9781788534093

Verlag: Practical Action Publishing, 2025

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Many, if not most, international NGOs say they want to 'localise', to promote greater leadership and delivery by local and national actors. But are they serious and do they know how to do it? This book presents ten lessons on localisation from the author's 25 year career to date, working in and on NGOs in the development, humanitarian and climate sectors. These lessons are based on the author's practice on the ground with NGOs and at global level as a donor representative, as well as her in-depth original field research. While written in an accessible style for the benefit of practitioners, with specific case studies of organisations presented, the book is rigorous and its findings are evidence-based. Sinead Walsh's experiences that feed into this book include volunteering with local NGOs in India, working for Concern Worldwide on partnership in South Sudan, and conducting PhD research on ActionAid's accountability to communities in Uganda. From these experiences, the author exposes structural issues that, time and time again, prevent international organisations from reaching their aims to 'localise'. This book asks uncomfortable questions and challenges some deeply-held assumptions within the NGO sector. The book then provides recommendations for how NGOs can think and act differently in order to get serious about serving the communities where they work most effectively.

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Sinead Walsh is Principal Research Fellow on climate at ODI Global and an independent consultant. She spent five years, 2020-2025, as Climate Director in Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs working mainly on climate finance for Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and conflict-affected countries; adaptation; Loss and Damage; and intersections between climate change, development and humanitarian issues. Prior to this she served as the EU Ambassador to South Sudan and Ambassador of Ireland to Sierra Leone and Liberia and the Head of Irish Aid in the two countries. Before joining the government, Sinead spent ten years in the NGO sector in India, Pakistan, Rwanda and South Sudan, mostly working with Concern Worldwide. She has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, a Master's in Development Studies from University College Dublin, and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University. She is the author of the 2025 book '10 Lessons in Localisation: Making Aid Work for Communities' and the co-author of the 2018 book 'Getting to Zero: A Doctor and A Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline'.

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• Verlag: Practical Action Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788534093
• ISBN 13: 9781788534093
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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