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Oleksandr Galkin, President of Right to Protection, participated in the virtual launch event for USAID’s new Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy
September 6, 2024
On 5 September, Sasha Galkin, President of Right to Protection, participated in an online event dedicated to launching the new USAID policy on localization, Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy.
USAID uses the term "localization" to describe a process of change. This means that all the reforms the agency is implementing are aimed at ensuring that its work puts local organizations at the forefront, strengthens local coordination systems, and responds to the needs of local communities.
USAID leadership addressed the participants during the event, including USAID Administrator Samantha Power. Attendees came from over 100 countries, including local and national NGOs, government representatives, the private sector, foundations, international NGOs, and others.
Sasha Galkin shared the experience of implementing localization in Ukraine's humanitarian and development sectors.
Oleksandr Galkin’s speech:
Oleksandr Galkin, President of Right to Protection
Right to Protection is actually a successful example of localization. In 2012, an important decision was made to localize the representative office of the international NGO HIAS in Ukraine. This happened even before the term 'localization' was coined. Today, the Fund is an organization that unites 1,300 professionals throughout Ukraine and Poland.
For Ukraine, with such a wide range of problems on the one hand and a strong civil society and effective government on the other, traditional international coordination has not kept pace with developments and initiatives on the ground. Therefore, a group of humanitarian actors, including Right to Protection, launched an initiative aimed at developing regional coordination schemes based on existing local coordination mechanisms.
On the way to better localization in Ukraine and globally, Right to Protection, together with other Ukrainian organizations, established the Alliance of Ukrainian Civil Society Organizations. The aim of the Alliance is to promote the idea of localization and implement practical steps, such as local coordination, direct funding, etc.
The Alliance has already brought together local and international organizations, donors, the UN, the Ukrainian government, and even businesses to develop a localization strategy for Ukraine over the next three years. This strategy is a collective product that has already been approved by the Humanitarian Country Team in Ukraine.
The event underlined the critical importance of empowering local organizations and ensuring sustainable leadership of the humanitarian response by those closest to the affected communities.