<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[CALLS Blank]]></title><description><![CDATA[CALLS Network]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/our-stories</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:26:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.callsnetwork.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Fadela Novak-Irons in the podcast "Are We All Listening?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[CALLS co-founder Fadela Novak-Irons, together with host Edmund Page, explore what it takes to foster refugee agency, move beyond traditional localisation targets and place genuine trust-based human relationships at the centre of the humanitarian system.  Listen to the podcast below.]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/post/fadela-novak-irons-in-the-podcast-are-we-all-listening</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a90b14835809d196a3eed7c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:54:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b1b73d_37d6f522b7f24631a8fb657607010ba5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fadela Novak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Value of Solidarity]]></title><description><![CDATA[This series has made the case, piece by piece, for why a change in the way humanitarian action operates is necessary, starting with refugee-led organisations as missing actors in this system. Part 1 argued why locally-led rather than merely localised action; Part 2 why equity rather than the equality trap to fix this exclusion; and, in Part 3, why agency rather than just meaningful participation. This time I want to turn to yet another actor that has been missing in the design of the...]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/post/the-value-of-solidarity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7e26eb1edc2c80bd34fb03</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:22:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b1b73d_68dad893cc68416197fbb0d54bc9bdd5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fadela Novak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a Seat at the Table to Reshaping the Room: Why We Centre Agency]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of pieces on refugee-led organisations (RLOs) and localisation, and what it truly demands of the humanitarian system. The first explored whether localisation is even the right word. The second argued that the system needs an equity lens, because equality is actually a trap for RLOs. This one is about the limits of meaningful participation - and why we built CALLS Network around agency instead. When we sat down to define our founding values, one question kept...]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/post/from-a-seat-at-the-table-to-reshaping-the-room-why-we-centre-agency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a496b120e6d46569499051f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:22:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b1b73d_38c9a7d8590345eca24154065a1d8116~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fadela Novak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refugee-Led Organisations: The Equality Trap - Why the Humanitarian System Must Think 'Equity']]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of pieces on localisation and what it truly demands of the humanitarian system. The first explored whether "localisation" is even the right word. This one asks: even if we get the word right, are we prepared to do what the concept actually requires? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the humanitarian system had a reckoning about aid to women and girls: providing equal, generic assistance often left women and girls entirely marginalised, their distinct needs...]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/post/refugee-led-organisations-the-equality-trap-why-the-humanitarian-system-must-think-equity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4969fff7b480551f1058e8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:19:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b1b73d_faed8e81ce504ff5830415b11dcac8d5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fadela Novak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA['Localisation' — Are We Using the Right Word?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a word that has dominated humanitarian and development discourse for well over a decade. It appears in donor strategies, conference agendas, and funding frameworks. It is held up as the answer to the long-standing critique that aid is too distant, too foreign, too disconnected from the communities it is meant to serve. That word is localisation. And in the past year, as the international development sector has been shaken to its foundations - USAID dismantled, global Official...]]></description><link>https://www.callsnetwork.org/post/localisation-are-we-using-the-right-word</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a49684bf7b480551f105570</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:12:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b1b73d_075d6e17224a40f4ab30e2e233ee23c7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fadela Novak</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>