Brief
24 February 2026
When The Rains Failed: Community Response To Drought
Across southern Somalia, when the Gu and Deyr rains failed, the land hardened. Grass yellowed. Riverbanks receded. Wells whispered...
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Brief
9 February 2026
Bringing Community into Area-Based Coordination in Somalia
What are the next steps beyond community engagement on the road towards community-led humanitarian programming in Somalia? The road...
Brief
9 February 2026
Building Bridges: Community-led Humanitarian Coordination
In 2024, OCHA reported that international donors provided nearly USD $ 1 billion ($915 million) in humanitarian aid to Somalia through...
Report
12 November 2025
Humanitarian Change – the Art of the Possible
Shifting humanitarian practice begins with the courage to question the ethics of what we have been doing. This was the call made by...
News
9 October 2025
Community-centred humanitarianism: Reconnecting aid with people
In every crisis – natural or man-made, short or protracted, ordinary people and their local structures help one other and organise...
Publication
6 October 2025
Four Principles of Community Engagement for Humanitarian Access
This note puts forward four principles that can be used as a guide to making decisions in humanitarian work in complex situations. We...
Publication
6 October 2025
The Organisational Reset
Using storytelling to engage with communities is changing how humanitarian organisations operate, impelling them to work towards a goal...
Publication
6 October 2025
The Humanitarian Reset Phase 2: How to get a locally led response?
In his statement of 19th July on Phase 2 of the Humanitarian Reset, Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Emergency Response Coordinator, promised a...
Publication
6 October 2025
The Language of Change: What has language to do with humanitarian access?
Does language have the power to change how we provide humanitarian assistance – and make it more effective? We believe that it can....
Publication
6 October 2025
Humanitarian Access in Somalia – For whom? For what? How?
This is the first of a series of discussion notes from a group of ECHO-supported humanitarian organisations that are finding new ways to...