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  • Majority World Voice: How to organize convening spaces on LLD

    Majority World Voice: How to organize convening spaces on LLD

    Learn more about and join the commitment letter from majority world CBOs on convening spaces for LLD.

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  • Heifer International Methodology

    Heifer International Methodology

    Heifer International applies Values Based Holistic Community Development (VBHCD), which focuses on total community transformation and is grounded in societal values or principles.

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  • Case Study: KALAHI-CIDSS

    Case Study: KALAHI-CIDSS

    The Philippines is home to one of the largest-scale community-led development programs.

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  • Launching the Movement

    Launching the Movement

    Leading international organizations call for a process that empowers citizens at the local level.

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  • Movement Announced at UN Summit

    Movement Announced at UN Summit

    President and CEO of The Hunger Project, Åsa Skogström Feldt, presented at the session on Ending Poverty and Hunger, emphasizing the need to elevate community-led development.

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  • Financing Community-led Development: Putting People First

    Financing Community-led Development: Putting People First

    The United Nations’ much anticipated Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) has come and gone. Over four days, more than 6,000 high-level development actors gathered to discuss the needs and means to finance the implementation of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. What was declared as the final draft of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) left much to…

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  • Localizing the SDGs in Malawi

    Localizing the SDGs in Malawi

    On May 15, 2015, The Hunger Project and World Vision co-hosted a nationally-broadcast panel discussion in Lilongwe on localizing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals in Malawi. The focused and frank discussion resulted in significant commitments to greater partnership among five key groups of development actors. The panelists include: The discussion was moderated by: In attendance…

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  • Partnership Between the People, Local Government Bodies and Central Government for Achieving MDGs in Bangladesh

    Professor Badiul Alam Majumdar, Ph.D. Global Vice President and Country Director The Hunger Project–Bangladesh (10 July 2014) “People are poor because they are powerless. We must organize people for power. They must organize themselves in such a way that they can change their lives.” –Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder Chairman of BRAC In the year…

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