Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. The Evidence for Development podcast shares methods and approaches to locally-led development and research developed by Christian Aid, its partners and communities living in the Global South to improve their lives. If you are interested in research, knowledge exchange and learning related to International Development then this podcast is for you. Hosted by Suzanne Fisher-Murray, our series of six episodes will publish every 2 weeks.
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Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. The Evidence for Development podcast shares methods and approaches to locally-led development and research developed by Christian Aid, its partners and communities living in the Global South to improve their lives. If you are interested in research, knowledge exchange and learning related to International Development then this podcast is for you. Hosted by Suzanne Fisher-Murray, our series of six episodes will publish every 2 weeks.
Scriptwriter and host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray
Audio editing and production: 18Sixty
Transferring power to local humanitarian responders
Evidence for Development
48 minutes 33 seconds
3 years ago
Transferring power to local humanitarian responders
It’s more important than ever to transfer power to local responders. We aim to share lessons about adopting a locally-led approach to humanitarian responses by finding out about the survivor and community-led response (sclr) approach from two experts.
We talk to Simone de Vicenz, Head of Humanitarian Programme Policy and at Christian Aid, who has led much of the SCLR work for Christian Aid and who is part of Local2 global, which champions this work. We also speak with Darare Gonchesalesa from Indigenous Resource Management Organisation, based in Marsabit county, northern Kenya who has practical experience of implementing the SCLR approach.
Podcast host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray
Interviewees
Simone di Vicenz, Head of Humanitarian Programme Policy and at Christian Aid
Darare Gonchesalesa, from Indigenous Resource Management Organisation, Kenya
Other partner organisations mentioned in the podcast
CFTA Culture and Free Thought Association in Gaza
European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Want to find out more about this approach?
Read two Christian Aid reviews of the survivor and community led response approach after the August 2021 earthquake in Haiti: a Christian Aid review which found that people are happier when they are in the ‘driving seat’ of emergency response projects, and a Learning Review which found that the approach was viable, accountable and an effective approach that worked at scale.
Read Issue 79 on localisation and local humanitarian action in the Humanitarian practice network magazine.
Find out more about Local to Global, which has developed the survivor and community-led crisis response approach.
This podcast is an 18Sixty Production for Christian Aid. Exec Producer & host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray. Producers: Gareth Evans and Chris Attaway. Music by Rowan Bishop. The singing incorporated into the music bed was recorded by Suzanne Fisher-Murray during a trip to a camp for Displaced People in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2004.
Evidence for Development
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. The Evidence for Development podcast shares methods and approaches to locally-led development and research developed by Christian Aid, its partners and communities living in the Global South to improve their lives. If you are interested in research, knowledge exchange and learning related to International Development then this podcast is for you. Hosted by Suzanne Fisher-Murray, our series of six episodes will publish every 2 weeks.
Scriptwriter and host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray
Audio editing and production: 18Sixty