Building more locally-led aid ecosystems: 2025 insights from Global South civil society. Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR).

“Across the sector, localisation has become an accepted idea. It has become the norm for international actors to incorporate country-based expertise into proposals and plans (often at donors’ request); to implement programmes through national and local actors to ensure smooth delivery (with cost-efficiency arguments still often playing a role); and, to a lesser extent, to give visibility to their “local partners”.”