Building agile leadership and development initiative (BALADI)

Individuals:

500 humanitarian and development practition-ers from 50 local and national actors will benefit from training courses (50% females and 50% males)

Organizations:

50 local and national actors will receive tai-lored capacity building support while 25 of them will be selected for targeted financial support

100 local and national actors will benefit from their involvement in consultations and advo-cacy with key stakeholders to create a more locally-led response

(at least 30% of organizations will be women-led organizations or women rights’ organiza-tion)

Outcome 1: Enhanced organizational, institutional, and tech-nical capacities of local and national humanitarian actors.

Outcome 2: More equitable and locally-led humanitarian sys-tem.

Outcome 3: More risk-informed and safe locally-led humanitar-ian system.

Outcome 4: More quality humanitarian action through more and higher quality funding managed by local actors.

Principaux résultats attendus:  

Output 1.1: A humanitarian-development studies centre is op-erationalized and legally recognized.

Output 1.2: Local and national actors' capacity building needs are assessed and targeted technical and financial support is provided based on identified gaps and priorities.

Output 1.3: Context-specific, gender-inclusive training courses are developed and delivered by a diverse pool of local trainers.

Output 2.1: Country-specific multistakeholder fora on aid reform established/strengthened.

Output 2.2: LNHAs supported to lead on humanitarian action at (inter)national levels.

Output 3.1: Country-/model-specific risks identified and collec-tively analysed in open and transparent ways.

Output 3.2: Risks in locally-led models identified.

Output 3.3: Solutions to priority risks piloted through multi-stake-holder risk and capacity innovation labs.

Output 4.1: Locally-led networked models of humanitarian ac-tion and funding developed or strengthened.

Output 4.2: Collective preparedness for locally-led response strengthened.

Output 4.3: Barriers to disbursing funding for international actors identified and removed.

Principaux résultats antérieurs:   This is the first phase.

- Yemen Humanitarian Fund of which SDC is an Advisory Board member

- SDC partnership with the Sana’a Centre, which is working on a research paper on lo-calization efforts in Yemen

- More partnerships and synergies will be identified during the project, including train-ing institutes or resource persons from Switzerland