01/05/2025
๐ข Cuts to aid are not just a funding issue โ theyโre a symptom of a broken system.
The international aid system continues to sideline local leadership, centralise decision-making, and prioritise donor cycles over community realities.
Now, with abrupt cuts โ like those from the US government โ frontline organisations are being forced to scale back or shut down. But we are not passive. We are organising, mobilising, and leading the alternatives.
๐๏ธ Read and sign the open letter: standwithcivilsociety.org
This is a call from civil society leaders across the globe โ including many in humanitarian response โ demanding:
โก๏ธ Flexible, direct, multi-year funding;
โก๏ธ Investment in locally led pooled funds, solidarity mechanisms, and domestic resource mobilisation;
โก๏ธ A shift in power, not just language.
Humanitarian action must be rooted in local systems of care and response โ not weakened by cycles of abandonment.
๐ข If you believe in a system led by those closest to crisis, this is your moment to stand with us.
NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response) Adeso KUJA PLATFORM
Peace Direct West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) The Global Fund for Community Foundations The Movement for Community-led Development Re-imagining the INGO (RINGO) Forus INTRAC CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
๐ standwithcivilsociety.org
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