A webinar organized by Sejajar in partnership with Oxfam for the Asia 2021 Local Humanitarian Leadership Webinar Series When :
Effective humanitarian response should always be
December 14, 2021
context-specific
11-1 PM Manila/
understanding
10-12 PM Jakarta/
situations, needs, and capacities, even if the resource
3-5 am GMT/
mobilization - both for funds, technologies and
8:30-10:30 am IST.
process support--goes global. LHL does not mean that
and and
locally-driven appreciation
with of
a
deep
community
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ASIAN LEADERSHIP: PRIORITIES FOR HUMANITARIAN ACTION
the response involves only local actors, with no outside
Where : Connect via Zoom bit.ly/LHLWebinar3 (Meeting ID : 930 2417 4820)
support. It means that local actors, government, and civil societies, are leading or are in the driver’s seat, in collaboration with external actors, including INGOs.
What participants can expect in Webinar 3?
Audience : Open to all who are interested in humanitarian action English -Bahasa Language and Sign language interpretation will be provided
In this last in a 3-part Local Humanitarian Leadership (LHL) webinar series, a shared voice from Asia shall be jointly developed outlining the key principles, agenda, and priority joint action plans towards strengthening Asia’s LHL from the lens of partnership, funding, innovation and power. This should help LHL go deeper beyond transactional arrangements especially in Asia, a region prone to disasters where there is a wealth of experience and thought leadership in this regard.
REGISTRATION : Please go to this link to register for the event Send us your questions in advance! Please email them to Nia (
[email protected]) on or before December 10. CLICK HERE to streamed on Facebook page
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MEET OUR MAIN SPEAKERS Mayor Melchor Llego Mergal : Governments as an aggregator and cohesive force in local humanitarian leadership Mayor Mel will share his insights on the role of local governments in galvanizing local and external talents and resources to shape the humanitarian landscape to be more sustainable and linked to longer term development programs and mandate of local institutions. Mel is the Mayor of the Municipality of Salcedo, a coastal town in the Eastern Samar Province of the Philippines. He is a lawyer, a certified accountant, an educator with a master's degree in educational management, and a degree in Agricultural education. All these serve him well in serving his constituency, having been known to broker strategic relationships at the national and international levels to bring much-needed resources and technical knowledge to his “off the radar” communities. His town has bagged various awards for exemplary performance in the areas of agrarian reform initiatives, planning, budgeting, procurement, resource mobilization, governance, financial accountability, and institutional development. As an LHL champion, he has since been an active spokesperson putting a spotlight on risk and vulnerability reduction of high-risk coastal communities with various projects on risk reduction, anticipatory finance, insurance models and in championing equality between men and women as a WE-CARE champion and an ambassador of Oxfam.
From local to global, the role of local actors in times of crisis Hening Parlan will talk about the role and aspirations of local leaders in humanitarian response and how they shuffle their roles to suit the demands and needs on the ground. She will also talk about the need to acknowledge and strengthen local actors ‘capacities as an integrated part of national, regional, and global humanitarian response decision-making, planning, and implementation. Hening is currently the Environment National Coordinator at National Environment and Disaster Management Institution of ‘Aisyiyah, the biggest Islamic women organization in Indonesia and she is affiliated at the Palladium International Indonesia. She has been working on humanitarian and environment for around 20 years with the Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI), as Secretary General of Indonesian Society for Disaster management, and Director if Humanitarian Forum Indonesia. Hening holds a bachelor of sociology, a masters in disaster management, and took up courses from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Hening Parlan :
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Ethical Encounters in Aid by Arbie Baguios A speech during the 2021 Humanitarian Leadership Conference held online on 28-29, April 2021. At the 2021 Humanitarian Leadership Conference—Who Are the Humanitarians? was held online on 28–29 April 2021, Arbie Baguios proposes four guidelines for ethical encounters. Arbie Baguios is the founder of Aid Reimagined. In this session, he shares how he became
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For useful resources on local humanitarian leadership, please check out this Webinar 3 Resource Pack with links to videos and other materials :
interested and invested in localisation of aid. According to Arbie, all events including social changes, developments, discoveries, and destructions, are products of encounters. Arbie proposes four guidelines for ethical encounters/collaborations: (1) Trembling at our ignorance. There is a need for humility and being aware that we may not have the answers. INGOs and donors should be aware that workers have knowledge of the local contexts. (2) Strive to live with our contradictions. Donors of aid must be willing to encounter other as they are, instead of imposing what donors consider as the ‘right things’. (3) Be a plumber. This implies the need to de-emphasise bureaucracy and agility while embracing a focus on being careful and relational. (4) Enjoy the pluriverse. This encompasses a willingness to live in a world that allows other worlds. One way to do this is by recognising the power of others, such as aid recipients, to create their own values.
A speech, a pledge and a paradigm shift USAID is pledging to provide 25 percent of its funding directly to local partners over the next four years. This isn’t the first time the Agency has made such a pledge. Early in the Obama Administration, administrator Shah committed the USAID to a 30 percent target, and in 2016 the US signed onto the Grand Bargain, whose signatories pledged to reach 25 percent. But the efforts to date have been met wih bureaucratic and cultural obstacles and the Agency has so far only achieved six percent. We hope Ambassador Power can breathe new life into this important initiative. But direct funding represents more than just the money that powers a development project or emergency response. The closer an NGO is to the source of its funding, the more influence it has on the design of the programs, and on the indicators of success. Because local organizations are more rooted in the communities than their international counterparts, direct funding translates into a better chance that a development project or disaster response will be tailored to the needs and preferences of the people on the receiving end of aid.
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The theme of this edition of Humanitarian Exchange is localisation+ and local humanitarian action. Five years ago this week, donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) committed within the Grand Bargain to increase multi-year investments in the institutional capacities of local and national responders, and to provide at least 25% of humanitarian funding to them as directly as possible. Since then, there is increasing consensus at policy and normative level, underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic, that local leadership should be supported. Localisation has gone from a fringe conversation among policymakers and aid agencies in 2016 to a formal priority under the Grand Bargain. Wider global movements on anti-racism and decolonisation have also brought new momentum to critical reflections on where power, knowledge and capacity reside in the humanitarian system. Yet progress has been slow and major gaps remain between the rhetoric around humanitarian partnerships, funding and coordination and practices on the ground.
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Localization and local humanitarian action
Local Humanitarian Leadership in the Philippines At the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, governments, people affected by crises, civil society, private sector, UN agencies, international organizations, and other humanitarian actors came together and committed to changes that would make life-saving action more effective. Among the commitments was to strengthen local humanitarian systems, a commitment that Oxfam embraces. This study synthesizes the experience, practice, and learning of Oxfam Philippines in its local humanitarian leadership approach and initiatives.
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The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium
on
local
humanitarian
leadership
(LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta
and
Istanbul,
and
draws
from
the
recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive reference on positive LHL practices and ideas for change that are
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The Power of Local Action: an Oxfam Learning Compendium on Local Humanitarian Leadership
in line with Oxfam's commitments and values. There were
over
document, partners
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that
contributors
combination graciously
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to
this
Oxfam
shared
learning staff
their
and ideas,
suggestions and practices to help Oxfam learn, adapt and improve.
Check out this Local humanitarian leadership--a microsite containing stories and blogs about local actors.
Read up on the previous webinars. 1. Asia LHL Webinar #1: Area Based Humanitarian Leadership & Action, March 25, 2021 2. Asia LHL Webinar # 2: Area Based Coordination as a complement or alternate to the UN cluster system, June 8, 2021
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Sekretariat Jaringan-Antar-Jaringan Organisasi Masyarakat Sipil-Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat
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WEBINAR ORGANISERS
(SEJAJAR)
Sejajar is an Indonesian network-of-network providing added value in terms of information exchange, strategy development, and collaboration among CSOs in the national and local level, with government and other stakeholders in Indonesia. SEJAJAR contributes to response and recovery from COVID-19 while, at the same time, making it a foundation for recovery within a framework of resilient and sustainable development wherein there is active and robust civil society.
OXFAM
is an international confederation of 20 organizations networked together in more than 90 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty.
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