Collaborative Action for Local Lead-ership in Anticipatory & Coordinated Humanitarian Response (CoACT)

• Direct beneficiaries are vulnerable popu-lations with humanitarian needs, includ-ing households facing food insecurity, women and girls exposed to protection risks during crises, persons with disabili-ties, elderly populations and marginalized communities in disaster-prone areas.
• Indirect beneficiaries include local NGOs and community-based organisations that will gain improved access to humanitar-ian financing and increased participation in coordination structures.
• Government institutions responsible for disaster management will also benefit from strengthened coordination mecha-nisms and improved data systems.

1. Enabling locally led and more predictable humanitarian assistance
2. Advancing locally led coordination and influence

Principaux résultats attendus:  

• An estimated 100,000 persons reached in emergency situations through Co-ACT supported humanitarian interven-tions
• At least 45 local organisations access-ing predictable humanitarian financing through the pooled fund
• At least 60% of pooled fund disbursed annually to local actors (15% to local women and girls’ rights organisations)
• At least 15 local women and girls’ rights organisations reached with ca-pacity building initiatives
• At least 5 local organisations in leader-ship or co-leadership roles within na-tional humanitarian coordination plat-forms

Principaux résultats antérieurs:   As part of its 2024/25 El Niño Response, Switzerland provided targeted support to the newly formed Zimbabwe Alliance for Humanitarian Action (ZAHA) to bolster the initiative’s efforts to improve humanitarian coordination. This support enabled, among other outcomes, a humanitarian landscape analysis and national localisation dialogue that helped identify key bottlenecks, including limited access to flexible financing for local actors, weak decentralised decision-making and data systems. CoACT builds on these insights by establishing a pooled fund mechanism, strengthening coordination structures, and improving the use of local data, while progressively shifting leadership to local actors.