 Yes, okay, so colleagues can have at least the coffee. Oh, I see I've been able to yeah to do it Thank you, Madine. So as we said, we are recording this this conversation the presentation itself and the question and answers We would stop the recording for the colleagues to be free to to to talk And now for the pool the idea is really I'm going to share my screen to show Or to to invite you To go to Mentimeter and on Mentimeter to to be able to Can you see my screen? Yes, we can see. Yeah. Okay Yes Thank you, just My computer is a bit slower than than my wishes, but Yeah, I'm I'm copying here on the chat the Indications of how to vote on the Mentimeter So that you can you could be going to the Mentimeter if you may on this address that you see here Yes, Joyce also shared For answering two questions that we have there that are the questions about The the localization toolkit. Yes, I see people already answering And to what extension Are you aware of the toolkit on localization in humanitarian coordination and the other question is about how much To what extent do you feel localization is being implemented in your cluster? So it's only two questions That you could easily answer with this link on Mentimeter for the colleagues that are able to To log in To the website And we can see the results as the colleagues are voting And if you cannot use the link you can use the code That is this code here with the website The That's I'm also sharing here I'm sharing the code Michelle. I hope you can see it here now for nine five two four six nine nine and Going back there to see the results. How are they evolving? And how the colleagues are being able to vote on the results here I saw colleagues were joining from different contexts That's indeed the the Implementation of localization So Would be different yes in different contexts that we were able to to to see from now from the Which is slowly Updating the results not so fast Maybe colleagues are facing some challenge to To have access to the Mentimeter I Will keep the track on it here as we are talking because sometimes the date is a bit slower than than the With the internet yes So so far we have for the first question. Are you aware of the two key to localization in humanitarian coordination? Seven colleagues that said yes, I'm aware but have not looked at it One colleague that said is aware and have looked at it and three That are not aware of it And as a second question at what extent do you feel localization is being implemented in your cluster? The majority of the colleagues answered so far that there is some interesting localization, but low implementation Or the three colleagues said that localization is a priority and it is being implemented in their context and one colleague said that localization is not a priority in its Context in his or her context a second one to set the same So the results they keep Updating as the colleagues are able to answer and for the sake of this This Conversation and the webinar to continue. I'm just going to stop sharing my screen and share with you afterwards the the final result of This pool here But it was for us to have a sense of how things are moving in your context And if you have knowledge of the of the tool itself That is the two kids that we are going to introduce here, right on the conversation today so with this Conclusion of the pool we have a bit of a picture then is I would say that the colleagues Yes, would like to hear on the two kids indeed because they they may be aware that exists But they still need to to look at it and having the time and having no also the energy of going through So thank you again, then he's and Ben for the time on and the support on Presenting on the two kids and I'll pass over to you Also post on the chat the two kids the link for the two kids for the colleagues Okay, to you then. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Thanks, Carolina as I Share my screen. It's quite we've noted that you know, there's quite some bit of progress in the different sectors and cluster with regard to localization and I hope that you know, there's also room for improvement when you talk about, you know, how do we Entrench localization policies and practices in our different respective sectors and also in our you know in our clusters and Something interesting is that localization has been we've had different conversations on localization both at global level at regional level and even at some pockets at the local and national level and You know, when you talk about localization, there has been different, you know Different understanding and different perception on how to go about with localization, but the best thing about the tool is that the tool brings on both different tools different guidelines that are able to that are able to champion localization both from the sectoral perspective and also from from our clusters perspective and Indeed, how do we then go about with localization in our different Humanitarian and coordination spaces is localization about Sorry to interrupt. I'm not sure other colleagues can see the slides. Oh, let me just share the screen Very about it Yeah, and maybe it would be good to just have a quick overview of the agenda Yeah, I think people can see it now. I see it comes up going up. So Yeah, thanks. Thanks. Sorry for that. So We will discuss about of course the introduction we've already talked about, you know, I've done the introduction We we are still continuing with the poll The other thing that we'll discuss around is the overview of the inter agency toolkit on localization and we will get to hear from from the from Mozambique and North East Nigeria over examples of protection cluster coordinate coordinators how they are doing on localization in practice and then we will have a Q&A session and then Two minutes for final remarks So as I as I was mentioning when you talk about localization There are five dimensions of localization that you know are important when you talk about entrenching localization policies and practices In humanitarian coordination and the first of it the the first one is on governance and decision making And this is really how do we then ensure that we are engaging local actors in key coordination and decision making spaces whether it's at the SAG whether it's also promoting core core leadership and also Seving space for local actors to also lead in either a task force team or even a TWG The next one is with regard to participation Participation and influence and this is important because this dimension doesn't just look at participation It also looks at influence How are we ensuring that when we are working with local actors We are able to support them to also influence the sector and also the clusters that we are engaging in and this is either through you know providing access to information and also working with them in the issues of ideation and also in the humanitarian program cycle um Another critical dimension is around partnerships and when you talk about partnership is that how are we ensuring that The partnerships that we are promoting are based on principal partnerships It's around working with local partners to ensure that the partnerships that we are working with are based on transparency They are based on results based approach. They are based on shared responsibility on equality and also on complementarity um Another important dimension is around institutional capacity and we are very keen and when you look at this dimension and also when you'll be going through the toolkit you will realize that We are very also particular not just to focus on operational or technical Capacities but also institutional capacity. How are we able to support local actors for them to be become and relate? and then of course The fifth dimension which is around funding and when we talk about funding We talk about how we are able to work with community the local actors whether it's through our championing advocacy around the local actors funding for the funding to be of quality and just to you know qualify the the terminology quality we talk about um flexible multi-year Long-term funding to local and national actors um The other bit that we will be discussing around is that we'll talk about also the toolkit purpose We'll talk about the toolkit aim. We'll also delve a bit and discuss about The target who the toolkit is targeting and also how it was developed and again You know the structure of that toolkit and lastly we'll also just give a highlight on the piloting of the toolkit in 2022 um When I move to the Puppets of the toolkit You'll appreciate that the purpose of the toolkit is related to the five dimensions that I just mentioned so when you Look at that the purpose one is to be able to provide resources and tools To coordinators to co-coded to colleagues Are able to ensure that participation of local and national actors in leadership and also in a coordination spaces The second purpose is it provides also tools and resources to local actors in order for them to influence to enhance their capacity to influence and Also lead in some of these you know coordination and decision-making spaces um Another important thing of the toolkit, which I also liked it was the issue of a go-to resource for localization As I had mentioned you will realize that you know Uh, there are different guidelines and tools that have been developed with regard to localization So whether it's the inter-agency standing committee Tools that they've developed on localization. Whether it's the grand bargain work streams Whether it's the different, uh, you know classes that have also Come and developed some of the toolkits and guidelines. So this inter-agency toolkit Uh combines all these guidelines and tools into one document that we can actually apply Again the aims of the toolkit they are again related to the five dimensions that I that I mentioned again It looks at uh, how we are able to support local actors for meaningful participation in the hpc cycle The other one is on uh, you know, increasing leadership of the human within humanitarian coordination structures of local and national actors and also of interests related to the funding dimension Is on supporting them to have an enable increase access to funding Uh, the toolkit this toolkit is a targeting Uh cluster coordinators. It's targeting colleagues. It's targeting government representatives It's targeting hcts It's targeting local and national actors and as Joyce will be sharing you will note how it is structured It's structured based on the different target audience that are highlighted here And what are the key takeaways the key takeaways from this toolkit are that local actors contribute contextual understanding uh to uh to challenges and solution they also You know, when you look at uh, how they engage with their local uh at their local communities They have the trust and access to the affected population Therefore when we talk about reach and scale we can work with local actors to increase these You know to increase reach and also scale and also importantly is that when they are properly Uh funded they can provide more, you know, the render humanitarian response Uh more effective efficient and in a sustainable manner I will um pass on to Joyce to Take us through the To take us through how the toolkit was developed. Thanks Um, thank you, Dennis. So again, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening everybody and to good to also reconnect to the couple of names that I see Uh from the field, uh, we haven't been in touch for some time, but good to see you connected today um, so the toolkit has Dennis has introduced really brings in Brings together resources that have been developed on localization from, you know, various humanitarian Eight corners. It's not developed necessarily to have something new, but it brings together resources that were all available But looking at how those resources can be used by different actors or different sections of actors within the humanitarian World so as you will note from the toolkit for those who've had a chance to Have a look at it or those who are looking at it. It is designed mainly for Coordination in humanitarian action So we are focusing really around supporting cluster coordination and then trenching localization within cluster coordination So this toolkit was developed last year Through an inter agency approach an inter inter cluster approach So it was a child protection global child protection area of responsibility The global education cluster the global nutrition cluster and the global wash cluster Together we'd save the children street child and a few national organizations in south Sudan in dirac And and elsewhere, but it began by looking at conducting a desk review of more than 170 resources That were available on localization And then trying to look at what those resources already provide for Trying to identify gaps and and recommendations that would be taken forward on the development of the toolkit and then the desk review was Also accompanied or followed by Consultations with key stakeholders including national actors international actors within the humanitarian Aid world or a humanitarian assistance assistance world and then from there we had the draft toolkit which was being developed Through by a lead consultant, but working together with an advisory group that included members from the global cluster Coordination teams that I've mentioned as well as national organizations and international organizations at the global and and And and country levels Following that of course there was the review of the draft and which took quite a bit of time To review and to bring together all the recommendations that were being made And one of those strong recommendations is to make sure that the toolkit is not only available in English But that is also available in other languages and we'll speak to that a little bit later on So following the the recommendations and the review of the draft toolkit We had the the graphic design of the toolkit Initially, it was actually a lot more bulkier than it is now But we did find a way to try and consolidate A lot of the resources to make sure that it's a little bit more user friendly So even though it's a few pages now It took quite somewhat to bring it down to what it is now so that we can make it as accessible as possible for users And then we had the toolkit finalized in English And following the finalization of the toolkit We also looked at the development of tools that were not already in existence to support To accompany the guide. So right now the toolkit is available in English And this year in 2022 again through the interagency intercluster approach We are piloting the toolkit in three countries Sorry in four countries and the piloting of the toolkit is what is dictating the translation of the toolkit at the outset But eventually with with the addition of resources We have we hope to have the toolkit translated in the main languages of Arabic, French Spanish in addition to the languages that may be in use in the countries where the toolkit is being piloted Yeah, and then the toolkit we had the launch the official launch in April this year We are happy to be having this briefing for you guys, but we had the Official launch in April this year and it's been disseminated So we encourage you to share the toolkit As much as possible with actors in your In your coordination groups, not just the national and local actors But also international actors because localization is about Everybody making an effort to ensure that local and national actors have meaningful engagement within the humanitarian cluster coordination system and in humanitarian assistance If you can move to the next slide, please Dennis So I'm just going to give a brief overview of how the toolkit is structured And you'll see from the titles themselves that it's almost self-explanatory What I really like about the toolkit is that it is a tool for all users But whilst we are showing how it can be used by all users It also has specific actions that can be undertaken By different categories of users. So we have the local and national Actors there are specific actions that can be undertaken what they need to do To advance localization and to push for localization within the work that they do Also what the responsibility for example of the cluster coordination leadership teams as well as the humanitarian country teams because The shift cannot only be made by one area of responsibility or by one cluster But the whole system within a country that looks at cluster coordination and humanitarian response Needs to engage in localization and of course the levels of interest may vary from context to context But it is only through concerted effort that we can have the shift towards localization that makes a difference In reality and then there's also tools that can be used by Other cluster coordination group members who are not necessarily national and local actors or the coordinators So we invite you to really have a look Because what the toolkit offers is if you are looking for something specific if it's on advocacy if it's on funding You can actually look at a specific section and look at how you can apply that or how that informs you So you don't feel overwhelmed to have to read the whole toolkit and to have to apply the whole toolkit but that you can look at what Appattains to you as a local actor national actor coordinator or cluster member And see also which areas you might want to focus on of course guided by the pillars Of localization that denise had introduced us to and it also has case studies as well as sample documents That can be utilized. So in the interest of time, I know the next slide also just shows something very similar I'm going to pass on to Ben to speak around the piloting of the toolkit and the steps that we are taking To make sure that it's not just a document, you know in word, but that we are using it ben over to you. Thank you Thank you very much Joyce and Dennis and if we could go to the next slide please Dennis Okay, great one more one more click as well, please Dennis um so Yes, this is um, and yeah, this is the piloting of the toolkit. So what do we mean by this? Well, obviously as Dennis and Joyce have briefed you on we have this like wonderful toolkit that's come together through a lot of this collaborative work A lot of time and dedication has gone into making it, but how can it be useful for you? How can it be useful for our cluster teams globally? Also the country level at the sub national level We need to make sure this is a living toolkit and it's as useful as possible for everyone That can use it and Dennis described the different target groups of who this is useful But one of the kind of main Main stakeholders would be you as cluster coordinators to have this as a as a resource to either use yourself directly or To push push towards your members or your partners who are asking for how do we localize things with the cluster system? So Based on that we wanted to kind of test this we've we've spent the last couple of years bringing it together We think it's a strong body of work and a strong resource but I think uh, it needs to be tested and see kind of what examples and kind of what kind of Learning can be made from testing it. Um, so the other countries and other cluster teams can learn from this So there's a bit of funding uh, uh, the child protection aor received for this project and the decision was made to work with four clusters for clusters and Combined with the aor as well. So you've got the the UCF led clusters So that's uh, you know education nutrition wash and you also got the cp aor as well as those four clusters and aor We want to work together and the reason that we want to do that because we understand this toolkit as a as a you know tool for all clusters, although it's kind of created By a select number of clusters. It can also be relevant for any cluster out there, right? So we want to test it with multiple clusters in multiple countries to see What challenges might there be what opportunities there might there be for kind of cross cluster working But also see to see where say for example in the same context. It would work well For one cluster, but not for another and kind of understand why that happens. So We've been having consultation with uh, five countries um, and uh off the back of that we've confirmed in three countries So you'll see at the bottom there northeast Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan have confirmed their interest and their ability to support what this work We are in conversations with northeast Syria And there's also potentially might be a final country as well, but those are kind of three Confirmed countries and there might be a fourth as well um, the reason we chose them is because we had a kind of mapping uh from each of the clusters And to see where there was an active presence of each of those four kind of clusters and aor So the the combination that kind of the four groups came together and said these are kind of the highest priority countries across the four clusters And also where the most clusters were working together and had the time on the ground So with that what's been happening so far? So we brought in a consultant to lead this project at the global level and because it's being worked, uh It's kind of funding coming through say the children We also wanted to make sure these were four kind of context where say the children have an operational presence as well Because from a programatic kind of administration point of view We needed to have say the children operational in country as well But there also needs to be high engagement from each of the clusters in these countries as well so consultant along with the kind of the technical leadership team, which is joys myself Dennis and a few other members of the save Localization team are kind of the technical guidance for this project and we've met with the cluster leads of each of those four countries to understand a What's the situation there and what kind of opportunities in localization? Do you think there will be? But also be how can we practically move some of these things forward? So the toolkit's not Something where you do everything. It's kind of a suite of resources That when the needs or the opportunities are raised from the field So from from a sub national level or or a country level You say this is one of our challenges or this is the opportunity Which tool can support us in that and because there are certainly tools here We can help match the tool to the needs in country. So that's the kind of stakeholder engagement Part which we're kind of on now We it's quite a short period of time. I believe it uh, it runs to early next year There's potential for further opportunities beyond that But the idea is that we start to work with the cluster teams to actually start Implementing some of these tools or the very least to understand, you know, how do we think these tools useful for them? What lessons do we learn from the toolkit as well? So from using the toolkit, but also how functionally functional it is in reality And then also from that we want to maybe have a further Without Cluster countries as well once we've had this kind of body of learnings from these first four countries And then once we move that forward again more countries will be brought into that But as as George was saying at the moment the tool and the resources there any cluster team can use it already It's just that when we go through this project the output of this project will be a bit of a broader understanding of some of the Opportunities or some of the challenges that we've had with it how to maybe overcome those um, and the final thing I would say is that we have also started to Um advocate for the use of this tool, you know, it was made by these kind of four or five clusters you see on the top of the screen However, there are so many different cluster initiatives so many different, you know, organizational initiatives around localization we're trying to Bring these together or make these universal as I said these this toolkit is for any cluster So we wanted it to be adopted beyond just these five clusters And we did a presentation at the humanitarian network partnership week Which was about three months ago where we advocated for the onboarding of this tool that's lesson teams as well So you'll hear more about it as we go forward, but this is also why we wanted to do this dedicated session with all of you Um, all of the coordination on the call today that gives you an opportunity to ask questions and learn a bit more about it. So Anything on the on the on the pilots that I missed there Joyce No, I think that's all good. We can address any questions in the queue um and eight Thanks Ben and thanks Dennis Thank you so much Joyce Thank you and Ben As you said Joyce, I think we can um, we can take some of the questions Since we have this q&a session dedicated at the end of the webinar So, yeah for the participants online if you have any specific questions on On how this toolkit was developed on the on the process on some of the tools and tips that are available Please keep your question for a couple of minutes. Um, because I think it would be interesting to hear first from From Mozambique and from Nigeria to um to ground a bit this conversation in context and to see how some of the protection cluster Coordinators are are starting to implement The localization agenda. So I'm not sure who go or ramsey who would like to go first. I don't want to put anyone on the spot But if you could take around 10 minutes each To uh to introduce a bit the context where you're working in and to explain Some of the successes and maybe challenges that you you face with regards to localization And I see who go. Thank you so much for raising your hand if you want to go first, uh, over to you Yes, thank you. Marie Emily. I don't know if that's okay with ramsey ramsey. Can I Show go ahead bus Fantastic greetings to Nigeria from Mozambique So dear colleagues, um, I'll speak a bit about the context in Mozambique and I hope you can see my My slide it's a bit slow as well today It's working well Fantastic fantastic. So So thank you very much, uh colleagues for inviting me out to this uh to this talk on localization in Mozambique um My key message really for Mozambique with within the localization is that it's a country with huge opportunities, right for localization. It is a country that comes out of um A lot of social mobilizing throughout the 90s And the 2000 and 2010s It has been through decades of civil war Which has developed a very vocal civil society Advocating on a number of different issues In parallel, you also have a country that has Was on the soviet side of the cold war, right? So it had It has created and still has today a number of associations of forums Advocating for different sectors within societies Um, and then of course within this comes The cluster system that was born out of the idai cyclone in 2019 Which is the same uh cluster system that is still responding to both Cyclones every once a year Unfortunately, we are heavily hit by cyclones and secondly as you might know a conflict-induced displacement situation in the north That is now approaching unfortunately one million idps after thinking that we had seen a reduction in human rights violation and attacks until April this year May june july august unfortunately has has seen a rise in these attacks And unfortunately more idps within the context of conflict-induced displacement Um, so let me dive straight into the numbers, I guess In 2021 we had only nine hrp Partners and actually only one of those was a national NGO, right an NGO What which I mean an NGO created In mozambique and registered as a national Mozambican NGO And we managed in 2022 to move that number up to three And as you can see the proportional increase in partners has been much larger um for National NGOs obviously because we've had we've been highly affected by covid There was lots of challenges in scaling up the humanitarian response throughout 2021 So by the time 2022 came along we had finally An increase in international partners and we could really bring into our hrp um You know a community of protection partners That the protection response deserved, right? Maybe So as you're already noting, right That increase of international NGOs was not accompanied by the increase of national NGOs And this is where we observed a number of challenges Throughout 2021 We've identified a number of very very vocal very Interesting partners. For example The network of child protection The forum of elder of protection of elderly's rights in mozambique. However When it was time to submit a project proposal A clear plan for Establishing themselves and scaling up in the northern part of the country This was a little bit more challenging for these national NGOs, right because they did not have It did not come with that funding that would allow them to start activities for them to Be able to be in the hrp, right as you know We we go within our hrp We look for NGOs that are already responding somehow that have proven capacity to be able to Start that hrp year with some activities Unfortunately many of the national partners that we were Have prospecting as we can say We're unable to start The year in cabo del gado In the north where these 1 million idps are located So they already you start seeing the challenges that we are facing um a number of things that i will address In my presentation then is of course how we've created some Guides that we can quickly share to grassroots organizations Also radio messages um We also had an actual Action plan for our protection cluster on where we wanted to be in 2022 With national partners and i'll talk a little bit about that one um working with the national human rights commission working with the national institute for disaster management and then um Some of the challenges that we are and reflections that i will share with you in the end So Within the cyclone Within the cyclone response what we've seen is that At the very local level there are some grassroots organizations right there are some Disaster risk reduction committees that are formed In in conjunction by the government and describing civil society at the national level However, what we found is that when they are They are responsible of course for managing those flows of displaced persons whenever cyclone hits And more specifically they manage transit centers where populations move into And they remained, you know, sometimes one week two weeks all the way up to one month What we've seen last year during the LOE cyclone That's why we decided to prepare a guide um That would bring some very practical protection mainstreaming Examples for those managing those transit centers and this document is also translated into portuguese um And we will also be working on a a version together With the the national institute for disaster management so that they can also take ownership of this particular This particular tool Within these this idea of creating these messages that we could rapidly disseminate we also used our Our network right and and and just like the previous tool and this current tool that i'm showing you which are radio messages That were transmitted to communities The beauty of the protection cluster is that we can very quickly Mobilize of course a variety of partners in different technical areas To compile those right so this was the same case for these radio messages We compile a number of messages that we have That we are disseminating to community radios That contain very practical tools of for example, you know, what do you put in your run bag? You know civil documentation obviously right when a cyclone is hitting So you can have that document after the cyclone hits and still be able to access certain rights For example Bringing photographic records of your property and belongings right to help you in housing that in property At the moment of claiming them back Have the phone number of your family members We are in a in a country where many people actually have phones Which is quite Which was quite surprising to me when I first arrived Avoid separation of family members and so on and so forth And these are transmitted by these community radios at the very grass root 48 hours before the hitting or the landfall of a cyclone Um, I was mentioning the action plan that we've Worked together with the strategic advisory group, right? These are the 12 strategic members of the protection cluster And we've worked on a action plan On localization internally for our SAG right that these include include things such as Always do meetings bilingual Always produce documents in both languages We are at a huge disadvantage in Mozambique because Another surprise for me when I first arrived. It's actually a Commonwealth country We drive on the left side of the street, right? We don't speak English Um, and this is this is a challenge because you do not benefit as much as our anglophone neighbors From a variety of different tools that are being produced So we really have to put in the effort of either finding a portuguese translation Finding the second best option, which is Spanish Which is a a close cousin of portuguese or Really translating it ourselves, right and and we are looking at doing that for example For the asked frame or conjurable solutions, right in this context of speaking about well A little bit less now after the increase in displacement in august, but In this context of of starting to discuss conjurable solution This will be a very important document that we would need in portuguese for example Unfortunately, it's only available in english Even by the way the guiding principle in terms of displacement has an unofficial translation into portuguese To show you a bit of the challenges that we have on the language front um The mapping of national partners obviously we are doing that on a regular basis and we've really are focusing on partners that we Can what number one a scale up right in cabo del gado more specifically where those displaced people are But also especially on the advocacy front because we are in a context where The government has Been working for decades with the united nations right and and it's angio partners However, most of the development approach right so when we come along as protection cluster and we for example Advise them on specifics on durable solutions They're suddenly very surprised right, you know, they have not Been used to a protection cluster that sort of say will How can I put this not necessarily condemn them right, but will show them look what you're doing is not necessarily right Could we explore for example relocations where you consult communities? For example before moving them um such things that we discussed with the government um So um, we are also trying to explore and show that we can work on advocacy um Capacity building is another one that we've been discussing and I'll talk more about this in my last slide Um, and in the end we've decided that it would be more It will be more cost efficient To work on this together with other clusters through ocha right because a lot of when we started to consult national partners um On this dialogue on this stakeholder mapping, let's say Um to see who we could include in hrp many came up for example. Look we distribute clothes for IDPs Look, we distribute food for IDPs. Look, we organize community gardens So activities that pertain to other clusters um, so we've made a a a a A directory of these different NGOs And we've transmitted that to ocha and now we're working on an agency or let's say a cluster wide approach of localization so together with ocha we are Providing a training to these NGOs. Of course myself As protection cluster on what types of protection activities we are looking for right what case management is what referral is What a person with disability is for example And also most definitely on centrality of protection and that whole concept, right? um, finally, um We also want to not only see You know how we can adapt local partners to the cluster, but one discussion we have non-stop is How can we adapt our systems our protection cluster? To national NGOs right because they know a hundred times more than we do they They are they are they have information much quicker than we do they have Access to beneficiaries and to many areas that we do not have as humanitarian Either un or international partners. So how can we also? adapt Our systems to their To what they are looking for to their expectations and I'll talk more about that In a workshop that we are organizing And the fundraising is a huge, um, challenge as I've already mentioned, right? How can we help them fundraise? We found ourselves supporting many of them of writing Project proposals, you know, they they would call and say look there's an There's a there's a call for it for expression from the embassy of the netherlands. They want to work with I don't know they want to work with disabilities We are we are we would be a good fit, but we've never Seen this project proposals. We've actually mobilized Our protection as a coordination team to help them in preparing those project proposals When we speak of national partners, and I'm almost done Marie Emily When we talk about the national parts within the government The ingd state card in the department Is one that really is important within the especially in the context of cyclone displacement, but also gaining more and more influence within the situation of conflict displacement They are the old child on the side of the government. They are the mandated agency in mozambique to manage um, idps and provide durable solutions for them as per a new policy and strategy of last year So we've jumped on the opportunity and we've been doing trainings on protection mainstreaming for them And we are going to have we've done already two regional workshops This year and we'll be doing three more regional workshops until the end of the year On the national human rights commission We are really working closely with them on advocacy So we've experimented on durable solutions I've mentioned to you guys the challenges of populations being either relocated or Invited to return however Before even assessing what their intentions are what their wishes are in terms of durable solutions So we've made a presentation Let's say a capacity building Half a week with them on durable solutions on the yask framework And then they were advocating on our behalf with the governor in governorship in gabo del gado with the state secretary another Hotshot there in terms of the of the authorities To be able to advocate for principle durable solutions The final best practice that i'll i'll share with you is we frequently coordinate Emergency protection units These are a group of protection cluster partners And they are very instrumental when you have cyclones or when you have mass spikes in displacement We dispatch a team of Of protection partners, right a small team. I like to stress right of five six partners specializing in gbv psca mhps s person with specific specific needs And child protection To be able to be on the ground assess the situation identify needs refer them To those services without they can get Some services and of course within those partners we we bring in a lot of national NGOs right because they Actually are the one that Know where to go know who to talk to and they really open up Um They open up the routes for us and these assessments And these rapid protection assessments and response missions with our epu partners um I mentioned also we are moving towards first of all internally with unit sierra But then externally with protection park plus our partners to do a more systematic stakeholder mapping workshop And we'll be doing this next month and it will be on one hand identifying how the stakeholders Communicate or influence themselves And also what kind of influence they have And also interests they have in specific Issues so that we can really hone down and identify Those national NGOs, but also governmental partners that we can work with so this will be done next month Some challenges and reflections the fundraising. I've mentioned we have very good partners are repeat however Really challenging in terms of fundraising Scaling up submitting that project proposal, right? And we sometimes have these discussion with donors, you know, why can't you not adapt your? Your your funding mechanisms, you know Dear echo, can you please reduce the Your extensive e-single form? And so on and so forth Again with ochre through protection cluster, this is one that we've been grappling with We are more now to be honest going towards working on an inter-cluster approach Advocating for ochre to take the lead of course with our full support And there is at the moment a localization workshop ongoing Cabo Delgado with a lot of national NGOs That are being You know that are being trained not only in protection, but also What are some key parameters and shelters that they should be looking at? How do you work in nutrition? And so on and so forth Language I spoke about that at length right the issue of language and translation We launched the last week a A a glossary a protection cluster glossary and you have their what is protection in portuguese? That's that's relatively easy. But then what about in macon de macua? The language right the local language of the idp's so we've created that That guide that we are now disseminating among partners to try to bridge that gap as much as possible And again the one that we concept that we're still finding That we have not yet solved, you know, how do we adapt our cluster our rigid? I like to call it our rigid cluster system right to the needs of these natural NGOs Um, and this is a conversation that we have ongoing and that we want to again Come with some clear recommendations. I'm moving forward. So over back to you, uh, maria melly. These are some considerations from Mozambique side Thank you so much Hugo. Um, it was it was great to hear from you and I could see Like all the tools and and the guidance that you have developed. I'm sure it's very helpful for other colleagues to To get familiar with that I can see in the in the chat that Fatima from From the gbv or in yemen is also asking in case you can share those materials Um, I can I mean, thank you so much also for putting some of the challenges up Maybe we can circle back to denis to joys and to ben In a minute to uh to also share their their own reflection on the on the issue of fundraising on the issue of language Um, I think the inter cluster approach that you're putting in place and in mozambique is really a good practice Um, so I will give them the floor also to um to share their reflections But maybe just uh to uh to go ahead with nigeria first and then we can open the floor Uh, so thank you again, Hugo and uh and ramsey over to you All right. Good afternoon again. Let me try to uh Check the presentation Let me confirm once you uh Are you able to see it? Yeah, we can see it now Okay, uh, like I mentioned and here, um I'm presenting along with the child protection uh AOR coordinator uh, given the fact that uh within the different uh, I mean within the protection sector the um Localization has been more championed by uh the cpa or so I thought it would be more relevant to uh give them uh to give the cpa or an opportunity to uh share some of the uh Experiences and challenges related to look for the localization in nigeria But I'm just going to give an overview and then uh, I will give the floor over to uh, peter simon The cpa or to come in uh, so to start with Let me see but okay, uh, just to give an overview like nigeria As they call it the superpower of africa we deal with a governing system Uh, that is relatively strong as compared to other countries where the government decides What should be done in their country? Not the un or ngos chemical decision if the government is not endorsing it and there have been situations where the government decide to do Certain things even if the un or ngos are contrary to that they don't listen they decide to do it in The common example is what we currently have attained Where the government decided to close all of the idp camps This fact the fact that the areas of return relatively are not safe for the idps to return this fact the advocacy from the un From the entire humanitarian communities from donors The state government decided that it was going to happen given the fact that it was a political commitment regardless of the situation on ground They went ahead with the return. Uh, so that's just an example. We have the kind of uh Country we're working where the government is a very force and strong strong and in many instances Decide to do what the thing is appropriate for them We have The leadership of the protection sector It's led by our government counterpart from the minister of eminent faith and then called it by urn It's here in the norwegian refugee council Uh, at the local government level we have Uh, NGOs, national NGOs that are chairing most of our world nation structure at the state level is this chair by The minister of women affairs urn it's here in nrc But if you go down to the lga level the local government areas in some places, we call it districts Where we have most of the local partners person They are chairing this these meetings. We build their capacity to be able to chair the meetings and if you look at the chat there In terms of percentage 41 percent of the protection actors are national NGOs Followed by i NGOs representing 22 percent in the un agencies are just about 5.5 percent And if you look at the geographical coverage in terms of persons of NGOs, we have about 62 percent National NGOs covering most of the local government areas in persons But then if you flip it around funding About 10 percent of the funding go to these local NGOs So, let me just Give the flow to peter to just take us through What the chair protection you are has done as far as localization is content peter the flow is yours Thank you ramsey for the overview and good afternoon colleagues. I think Ramsey has already walked us through the context Of nigeria and specifically the north east. I just want to Dive a little bit on what we have done as The child protection area of responsibility around localization and basically i'm just going to Talk about some of our achievements around localization The first being that The coordination is actually led by the government, which is the ministry Of affairs as ramsey has as clearly mentioned and unicef co-leads The coordination at the state level and also we've Gone ahead and we have a co-coordinator who is from a national Organization and we feel that this is very important because then the national actors feel that they are represented at the decision making level But also I engaged in very critical conversation in terms of programming in the area of child protection and they clearly reflect the needs the values and the Aspirations for the communities that we serve Looking at the representation of the child protection area of responsibility We have The government and the national NGOs In the sag which is the strategic advisory group Represented where we have carefully selected this representation where we have two UN agencies three government Representatives from the different states where we have the response ongoing. We have two international NGOs in the strategic advisory group and then we have four local NGOs in the advisory group. This is just to ensure that Their aspirations are always, you know reflected in terms of decisions But also in terms of actually what the communities Require in terms of funding in the area of Child protection, we've tried to earmark About 80 percent of the NHF, which is the Nigerian humanitarian pulled fund for national NGOs So this is a deliberate effort to ensure that at least there's some funding that goes to national actors to implement Production but also it's a way of really pushing the localization agenda forward In terms of also really having a very strategic Direction We have recently developed the child protection area of responsibility strategy And clearly one of the thematic areas is Looking at localization how we can really strengthen The capacity of national actors in terms of programming planning and implementation of child protection Activities, but also looking at how we strengthen the capacities of the government As well and they are the first Responders when it comes to providing services for child protection So we believe that having that prominently reflected in the strategy gives us Um leverage when we're engaging with donors to advocate for localization and how we can push that ahead. We are also Currently in the process of developing a localization strategy as part of the broader strategy that I've talked about And also have a dashboard that will show us how we are progressing on each of the indicators that uh, Dennis highlighted at his maiden presentation on the Principles of localization next slide please ramsi I can't really see it. Um, okay. Now I can see in terms of the challenges um, I just highlighted Five key challenges that we have observed with really pushing the localization agenda forward And one is around the week leadership and coordination at lga levels for child protection And as ramsi said when you look at the lga coordination, it's mainly Um in the context of the north is to lead by national actors So we have some, you know capacity gaps in in terms of coordination at that level Which we are trying as much as possible as an area of responsibility to to strengthen My colleague in musambique talked about blow funding to um, the child protective responsibility Um, and this also affects on how much really can be given to local actors to implement Child protection programs so that also has a kind of Direct correlation with how we are moving forward with the whole agenda around localization The other issue is the capacity of partners in terms of being able to fulfill the requirements of donors in terms of operational policies in terms of their capacity hr capacity in terms of You know implementation capacities and expertise in child protection. So this also affects The opportunities of these actors to really, you know attract funding But it's something that we are working on through the mentorship program and also through the consortium approach that I will talk about later And then of course, we've also realized that there is high turnover, especially when you look at the the co-coordinators uh position because you build the capacity of the co-coordinator who is in a national um NGO and of course naturally, you know The person is more marketing and this person moves on to the i NGOs or to UN agencies So this leaves a very huge gap again in terms of the coordination structure But what we have tried to do is to identify three to four Local NGOs that are really strong in child protection and also have dedicated staff That can be available to take on the coordination role So that's how we kind of try to mitigate on the whole issue of turnovers of the co-coordinators that we have built capacity on and then There's also at times when we talk about localization There's some level of limited trust by government for local actors Especially in conflict settings like ours in the north east. So this really shrinks the space for really pushing I heard the whole agenda of localization because you find some partners who are really strong, but then They do not get the clearance from the government because the government fields, you know, they might not really be Doing what is required, but might be serving the interest of the non-state Armed groups. So that's a little bit of sensitivity that we also get um in the area of really fronting the localization strategy Next slide Ramsey. In terms of just some sorts or recommendations to take forward is to advocate for more funding for Child protection protection, mine action, housing, land and property and GBV areas of responsibility Because if we have adequate funding or at least more reasonable funding we are able to really, you know, push the localization agenda forward Also, I think in terms of Really strengthening the whole concept of localization We really need to dig deep Into the male sectoral programming to see how we can work with other sectors like GBV food security livelihoods and and wash education just to leverage on the funding that is available and Really push some innovations around the area of localization and then of course we need to Scale up localization looking at the government partners, but also Looking critically at where the Context really is favorable for this localization to be implemented because I guess countries at different levels in terms of really Acceptability of some national actors So we really have to be mindful on how we move forward with localization And then also to look at innovation around the whole concept of localization That would be another recommendation or thought that I just wanted to flag next ramsey My Connection's a little bit slow. I cannot see the slide, but perhaps it will come on so Is actually the next slide Yeah, so basically that is All I have to share from the child protection area of responsibility around localization over to you Emily and colleagues Emily, let me just add few points If I'm allowed to and thanks Peter Because like I said that the cpa or has been far advanced when it comes to Localization and what we're trying to do now is to see if the gbb or can also emulate this example And now one of the key challenge we have with localization To the capacity of the local partners and Peter mentioned that in terms of human capacity in fanatica capacity because if Finances are not available. It becomes difficult for these organizations to be able to To do the work needed in order to also make an impact for working what to do Currently if you look at the eligibility criteria set by orcha for receiving funds through the hinajone humanitarian fund almost 90% of the national angels cannot qualify So in that line, it becomes a little bit difficult Because like for example, one of the states we just went to the key concern they had was the lack of funding They don't have they are in the hard to reach area the inaccessible areas But when it comes to funding most of the funds go to the international angels in the u.m So what we've done for this current? Reserve allocation under the during humanitarian fund And we had this discussion last year after we saw the significant amount of cash or fund that is going to the NGOs and international and u.m agencies The new allocation that came up last week. It was decided by orcha That only national NGOs and international angels can apply for the fund Uh, so if a u.m agency has to apply you have to provide Justification as to why you want to apply why an international national angel cannot implement And even for the the international angels that are qualified The key criteria is you have to be implementing along with a national angel So we've we've instituted that in this Current reserve allocation So make sure that we at least increase the number of our national angels that are going to be received funding this year And we're going to make sure that this continues So from the sector side we had meeting with the partners actually we're planning to have a meeting We're discussing in our last petition sector meeting That uh, even if a national angel is not eligible to receive funding through the any shelf they are Allegable to receive funding through international angels in u.m in u.m agencies So in order for the sector to approve funding We have to make sure that you are working along with a national angel Whether through a consortium or through implementing partnership arrangement So that's that's our that's the way we're trying to use I mean, that's the way we're trying to consider to make sure that at least we increase the funding that goes to the national angels because it is discouraging them to To a larger extent because they are not getting funding and they are expected to be in this most difficult and hard to reach area Thank you Thank you so much ramsey and and peter um for sharing some of the the great Great examples also from from nigeria. I think you mentioned The importance of national NGOs in the operational response You have talked about the sag about the localization strategy So that's that's great. I think inspiration for other colleagues We could see some similar challenges then In mozambique around funding around the weak institutional capacity So I don't know if if then is joys or ben you would like to to jump in but I would also like to give the opportunity to colleagues online So I noted in the chat If you would like to ask a question on the toolkit or on the two examples that we have heard from mozambique and from from nigeria Please raise your hand. We are a little bit Behind time, but we can still take another 10 minutes for some questions reflections also from from your side So please raise your hand right in the chat Give me a sign that you would like to intervene And then I can also give the floor to to anyone who would like to to jump in Stefan yes, please go ahead Hi, Marie. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you well Excellent. So yes first to say thank you to the team that developed the tool and to the two colleagues have shared their The examples I would say the tool is timely first. My first comment is about the Saying that it will help even the local and national NGOs to broaden their look the outlook on localization I was in one response where localization was about money. We need the 25 percent Uh, presented in the ground but we have lost you Stefan. I cannot hear you anymore Yes, go ahead. Yeah, it was good. Can you start again? Yeah Yes, I was talking about the institutional capacity building that Uh We need I think there's need for advocacy towards donors because even when National NGOs access the funding the donors rarely fund institutional capacity building For the for the national NGOs, which is kind of the weakness why they will not get Any other funding or they will not even strengthen themselves to Access like eco funding or any other funding even the UN agencies actually rarely Find institutional capacity building and I think this is this one of the key points of advocacy I also wanted to share about the what we did with the mhf the humanitarian fund like the the Nigerian team did So we we know most of our local NGOs won't even access the uh the mhf funding and what the what our advocacy was Towards OSHA, which was actually accepted and actually OSHA was in for it was even if and I NGO applies and they had to get that funding The qualification would they have to have three local Edges any NGOs as partners so without any national partners they wouldn't qualify and actually most of those have not qualified at all It's those that actually put the three national NGOs as partners that actually qualified and that has really worked well for uh for us my final reflection was about the The movement of staff uh from the national NGOs to the ingos