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CHAMPIONING LOCAL ACTORS

OUR APPROACH

We work with an expanding network of more than 200 inspiring local organizations, whose power and purpose sits at the heart of all we do – and has done so since our first partnership in Sierra Leone in 2008. 
 
At Street Child, we believe that supporting local organizations and leveraging their expertise is essential to effective, efficient interventions and enabling sustainable longer-term impact. We work in close collaboration with leading agencies, leveraging our learned experience and accumulated expertise to issue global guidance on working with local level organizations.  

PARTNERING WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

We have worked in close collaboration with leading local NGOs across more than 24 countries since 2008, developing strong and diverse multidisciplinary partnerships.  

 

From 2010 to 2020, Street Child supported local level organizations to secure $1M+ in further funding. This included institutional and philanthropic funding and introduced local level organizations to influential funders including Comic Relief, the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the United Nations Children's’ Fund. Our significant support in this area has resulted in substantial increases in their capacity to fundraise.

LOCALIZATION IN EMERGENCIES

2021/22 presented Street Child with an outstanding opportunity to advance our ‘localization in emergencies’ agenda at a systems level: formalization of our support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, to provide high-level advice on enhancing funding flows to local organizations across its multi-year programming. 

Accelerating local leadership

In 2022, Street Child launched Elevating Local Leadership in Emergencies ($3M over 2 years) in our first-ever partnership with the United States Agency for International Development [USAID]. This program presents ground-breaking opportunities to strengthen local level organizations’ involvement in and leadership of the cluster and coordination networks, as well as strengthening inclusion of local actors by clusters and coordination networks.

Running across 35 countries, the program creates space for us to build on our significant successes achieved with Education Cannot Wait, the Global Education Cluster and Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility.

ADVOCACY

Localization is one of the core principles that Street Child advocates for, focusing on increasing attention, funding and support to place local actors at the heart of every response.


In Pakistan, we helped five local organizations express their interest in implementing the Education Cannot Wait Multi-Year Resilience Program. We provided significant surge support to help them secure funding for the program, including covering their share of administrative costs.


In Ukraine, we supported a local partner to successfully secure their largest grant to date, enabling them to make an even greater impact during the ongoing crisis.


Following the Turkey-Syria crisis in 2023, we also collaborated with our local partner Orange, to enhance their communications and fundraising capabilities.

the impact of our local level action approach

200+

The number of inspiring local organizations around the world with whom we've been able to partner

59%

The percentage of total Street Child expenditure which goes to local organizations. As a signatory for Charter4Change we are committed to publishing our expenditure

75%

The percentage of Street Child development expenditure which goes to local organizations

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