CALLS Network

How we work is just as important to us as the changes we aim to effect in the humanitarian ecosystem:​

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• As a not-for-profit civil society organisation, we have a networked governance, and we create a civic infrastructure that fosters grassroots solidarity. We are equally a resource provider and a donor. We work at the intersection of what exists to co-create new and inclusive platforms for engagements.

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• We bridge three ecosystems by combining humanitarian response, social innovation, and civic power. We connect actors who rarely meet, including humanitarian-development-peace actors, social innovators, civic society activists, volunteers, donors and others concerned in the Global North, with refugee communities in the Global South to co-create transformative forms of solidarity.

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• We focus on the most invisible refugee-led organisations, those led by women, youth and persons with disabilities, that are left out of existing funding mechanisms.

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• We leverage the power of our network across Europe and the Global South to connect diverse people across continents and across different legal statuses, genders, ethnicities, faiths, social classes, political positions and roles.

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• We turn solidarity into systems change, linking local solidarity groups in the Global North with refugee-led organisations in the Global South to create spaces in the Global North for meaningful engagement beyond individual donations.

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• We combine our support to community-led approaches and local solidarity groups at grassroots level with advocacy for system change at the global, regional and national level.