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Home > Resources > Women Leading Locally: Exploring Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

Women Leading Locally: Exploring Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

Posted on March 20, 2020

With case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan, this report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action and seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. It finds that women’s leadership in local humanitarian settings is limited in both countries and faces many of the same challenges as LHL itself. However, by encouraging collaboration between women leaders, women’s organizations, and LHL actors, progress toward a more gender-transformative humanitarian system can be achieved.

With case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan, this report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action and seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. It finds that women’s leadership in local humanitarian settings is limited in both countries and faces many of the same challenges as LHL itself. However, by encouraging collaboration between women...Read More

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