{UAH} FW: National staff: 8 ways to support the +90%

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:20:37 -0500
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To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@devex.com to your address book. June 14, 2016 WHAT TO KNOW NOW National staff: 8 ways to support the 90-plus percent By Kelli Rogers @kellierin International organizations rely on national staff, and an increasing number of INGOs are focusing on growing partnerships with local groups. Still more resources are flowing directly to national NGOs. But better support for national staff isn't keeping up with a rapidly changing industry.     Photo by: Liberian Red Cross   People are key to the success or failure of humanitarian response, "yet we often manage and reward staff as if we didn't know this reality," David Loquercio, head of policy, advocacy and learning at CHS Alliance, which supports the humanitarian sector in applying standards and good practices, told Devex. Most international aid agencies already employ more than 90 percent of national staff in countries where they operate when they don't exclusively work through national partners. Overall, it's likely that more than 95 percent of aid workers work in their own country, Loquercio added. Enabling local response to play a more important role in humanitarian response was one of the key items on the agenda of the World Humanitarian Summit. But while local staff are increasingly delegated more risks and responsibilities, they still tend to get least attention and resources in terms of duty of care and staff support — which was also reflected by the issue of staff care being "nearly invisible" at WHS, Loquercio said. If the development community believes staff deserves the support of their employer or back donor, Loquercio points to the Core Humanitarian Standard, which includes people management as one of its commitments and defines corresponding requirements. 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