Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the proportion of humanitarian aid supplied by the UK that is distributed directly by local actors in the recipient regions.
UK humanitarian aid is distributed through a range of delivery partners, including directly via local organisations; or through international organisations who themselves work through local actors. The exact proportion of local versus international partners shifts regularly according to need and context. We do not hold precise figures centrally. However, the UK strongly supports the role of national and local organisations in meeting humanitarian needs and building resilience. Strengthening local actors is an important part of the UK approach including through our contributions to Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPFs), to which the UK was the second largest donor in 2022; the START Network, an NGO-Managed rapid financing mechanism for humanitarian response which the UK helped establish in 2014 and remains a major donor to; and our support for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) which is the worlds largest humanitarian network.