The ICRC and the localization of aid: striving toward meaningful complementarity

10/01/2018

In 2015, the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (hereafter "the Movement") sent a strong message of support for strengthening the role of local and national actors in responding to humanitarian needs. For a century and a half, the Movement – a humanitarian network composed of 190 National Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and red Crescent Societies (IFRC) – has embodied [...]