Facilitating Localisation
What is Localisation?
In the humanitarian sector, localisation denotes a transformative shift in decision-making power from international entities to local actors. This involves supporting local organisations, governments, and communities in their efforts to build capacity in crisis preparedness, response, and recovery.
Localisation also emphasizes the importance of fostering stronger partnerships across our sector to ensure that international humanitarian efforts remain effective, appropriate, and sustainable.
Localising Procurement
The ultimate aim of localisation in our sector is to build a more inclusive, effective, and accountable humanitarian response system—one that centres on the needs of affected populations, strengthens local economies, and promotes resilience.
With procurement activities accounting for the largest portion of humanitarian budgets, humanitarian organisations and donors have a crucial opportunity to advance localisation by prioritising local procurement.
Local sourcing not only boosts efficiency but also directly supports local suppliers and economies, laying the groundwork for long-term recovery and resilience.
How does Solvoz enable Localisation?
Strengthens Local Economies
Whilst not a panacea, there is now widespread agreement among NGOs and donors that utilising local resources and suppliers promotes economic recovery and helps minimise the potential harms associated with delivering humanitarian responses. Solvoz supports organisations to procure goods and services locally, offering a range of economic opportunities to local, national and regional, and thereby positively contributing to the ongoing recovery of communities affected by crises.
Enhances Market Assessments
Solvoz’s innovative approach facilities more effective local market assessments, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of the availability and quality of goods and services within a particular geographical region. These insights can help inform your procurement and sourcing decisions, empowering you to design programmes that strengthen local economies and contribute to long-term recovery.
Widens Access to Suppliers
Our trail-blazing supplier database and digital tender platform seamlessly connects buying organisations to over 400,000 suppliers worldwide. This includes a wide range of local and regional suppliers that, due to inequities in traditional market dynamics, may have been previously overlooked. By providing a platform that showcases suppliers of all sizes and locations, Solvoz strives to promote the localisation of procurement, whilst facilitating more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable humanitarian responses.
Promotes Knowledge Sharing
Offering an extensive open-access knowledge base and wide network of technical expertise, our platform serves as a comprehensive knowledge management framework. By this we mean, it collates and disseminates essential contextual and technical information to anyone that needs it. This broadening of access to knowledge supports local organisations and personnel to gain the skills, tools, and services they need to create tailored and impactful responses.
Localise your organisation's procurement today!
If you want to learn more about how Solvoz can support your organisation to achieve greater impact through the localisation of your procurement, whilst also attaining significant cost savings, then please get in touch.