The Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SHF) is one of the largest and most innovative United Nations Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs), playing a central role in responding to the world’s most severe displacement and hunger crisis. Yet on one crucial front, it falls behind: localization—the shifting of resources and decision-making power to local actors, widely recognized as the key to more efficient, sustainable, and accountable humanitarian action. Today, only a fraction of SHF funding reaches local Sudanese responders directly or indirectly, and their influence within the SHF remains limited.