Strengthening Capacities: CAFOD's Vision to Promote Locally-Led Humanitarian Response

In 2012, CAFOD identified capacity strengthening of partners as one of the key corporate priorities and established the Humanitarian Capacity Development (HCD) programme. This pioneering initiative responds to the call made in the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review and in the broader humanitarian sector, to “improve the strategic, political and operational leadership of the international humanitarian system,” with a particular focus on the global south.

The programme puts affected communities and their participation and engagement in humanitarian response at the centre. It looks at how a quality response can be achieved if the organisation has the required capacity at both the structural and programmatic level.