Network for Empowered Aid Response

Formation	2016
Purpose	Advancelocalisation inHumanitarian Aid
Headquarters	Nairobi, Kenya
Executive Director	Hibak Kalfan
Chair	Sema Genel Karaosmanoğlu
Website	www.near.ngo

TheNetwork for Empowered Aid Response, often called the NEAR Network, is a group of humanitariancivil society organisations based in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.^[1]

The Network increases collaboration between its members and advocates for the a higher percentage of funding to be given to local humanitarian organizations.

The Network for Empowered Aid Response advocates for not for profit humanitarian organizations in low income countries, increase collaboration between organizations.^[1] It runs a funding programme for local humanitarian initiatives, and an online platform calledSouth-to-South that helps share learning between local and national humanitarian organizations.^[1]

Following a pledge to improvelocalisation made at theWord Humanitarian Summit,^[2] NEAR Network was launched in 2016 and incubated byAdeso with $50,000 funding from theConrad N. Hilton Foundation.^[3][4]

In 2017 and 2018, NEAR Network was critical of government donors failure to comply with 2016 commitments made as part of theGrand Bargain to fund local organizations directly.^[5][6]

In 2019, NEAR Network launched theLocalisation Performance Measurement Framework to help harmonize systems of reporting to government donors.^[1]

• Executive Director, Hibak Kalfan^[7][8]
• Chair, Sema Genel Karaosmanoğlu^[9][10]
• Alix Masson, Advocacy lead^[11]

• Localisation (humanitarian practice)

• Official website

• Humanitarian aid organizations
• Organizations based in Africa
• Organizations established in 2016
• Humanitarian aid

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• Articles with short description
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