Read full Strategic Plan here. NEAR Strategic Plan 2021-2023
The humanitarian and development sectors are at a crossroads. We have a unique opportunity at NEAR, to bring about transformative change to the aid sector by influencing complex policy conversations while working alongside our members in developing concrete solutions. This Strategic Plan was developed with our members’ intention to seize this historic opportunity for real systemic change.
The Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR) is a growing collective of local and national organizations working to improve the daily lives of their communities through humanitarian response, peace building and development. NEAR started as a movement of Global South leaders at the World Humanitarian Summit articulating their challenges within the aid sector. It quickly ballooned to a network of ninety-six founding leaders across the Global South committed to advocate for systemic change in the international humanitarian and development aid system.
Amid an ever-changing environment, NEAR has embraced its role as both a representative
of Global South actors, and as a convener of ideas and solutions, grounded in the knowledge, experience and culture of its members.
Through an open participatory process NEAR was able to listen to its members’ needs and aspirations for the next three years, and to clearly identify its future role through two main bodies of work: Influencing and Innovative Practice. NEAR is excited to progress into a network that convenes, exchanges, and learns with Global South leaders to reinvent aid.