Supporting locally-led crisis response and mutual aid to change how aid is understood and carried out

The first responders to  crisis are usually communities and survivors themselves, who organise to find safety, security, and meet their needs. Supporting community-led crisis response (sclr) is a research-based approach that gives survivors and community groups the power and resources to take charge of their own response.

In order to promote community led approaches, L2GP supports a network of hubs and communities of practice around the world. This network share best practice and peer learning in support of community-led initiatives.

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Our Work:

Supporting community-led crisis response (Sclr)

Our approach puts people at the centre of crisis response, giving them the resources to take control. Find out more about training on how to integrate sclr into your own work and reflections and lessons learned from the contexts in which it has been successfully implemented.

Two-page summary of sclr. Read it here: [AR] [EN] [FR] [SP]

HPN 84 explores lessons and recommendations from 10 years’ of implementing sclr. Read it here: [AR] [EN] [FR] [SP]

Research

We have over ten years of research and evidence on how individuals and communities respond to crises, and how supporting locally-led crisis response enables people to meet multiple needs across the humanitarian-peace-development nexus.

Mutual Aid was vital to responses to the pandemic around the world. Read the Disasters article.

HPN 72 provides a summary of our foundational research. [EN]

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