The report demonstrates that engaging with diverse women (and women’s organizations) in their own terms,responding to their priorities and adapting to their ways of working constitute key drivers of gender-transformative change. Enhancing meaningful participation and effective localization is not only about what humanitarian responders do,but how they do it. The central argument of this research report is simple: the voices of crisis-affected people,and in particular crisis-affected women,should resonate loudly and clearly in spaces where decisions about their lives are made.