<h2><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>WIHRINI with support of INGO Forum through the PLRCAP programme organized The Taking the Lead Initiative (TTL) from the 2</b></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>nd</b></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> -3</b></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>rd</b></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> of August 2021</b></span></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking the Lead is a joint initiative aims to support local organisations and networks such as WIHRINI to build their individual and collective capacity to: </span></span></span>
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 	<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Engage in humanitarian action; </span></span></span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coordinate effectively with each other; </span></span></span></li>
 	<li> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Influence humanitarian action in their local area; and </span></span></span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Increase their leadership role in humanitarian work at local level. </span></span></span></li>
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<p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking the Lead supports local actors to analyse their humanitarian context, assess their own organisational and collective capacities and formulate capacity building plans to improve their performance. </span></span></span></p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The initiative is primarily focused on small to medium sized local actors who engage in humanitarian action. It is designed to be relevant for a wide range of types of organisations including non- governmental organisations, civil society organisations, not-for-profit and for-profit organisations, local authorities and other state actors, and academic organisations. Taking the Lead is not limited to those who have a humanitarian mandate but can be used by any organisation that participates in humanitarian action at local level in a given environment and for organisations engaged in the management of vulnerabilities and risk in the context. </span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri Light, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Purpose and Approach </b></span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The purpose of the initiative is to provide a structure which local organisations can use to drive their own organisational and collective capacity building. </span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The initiative is intended to be a reflective process led by those involved. The discussions and analysis that organisations undertake separately and collectively are an essential part of the learning and reflective process and are as important as the completed assessments and action plans which will be created. The initiative is intended to support self-driven and long-term change and growth. </span></span></span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The assessments and change planning activities are not intended to be conducted by external bodies as evaluations or audits of local organisations. </span></span></span>