July 28, 2021 – For the first time, our collaborative research team shared findings from a rapid realist review of 56 programs globally to understand how facilitation and community leadership enable food security for all.
#WorldRefugeeDay: Refugees are Community Leaders
By Mary Elizabeth Margolis, Senior Director of Communications, Church World Service We often hear about the unbelievable challenges refugees face in their journeys to find…
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Collective Impact
https://youtu.be/5Sug1COt3ww November 2019 monthly global meeting of the Movement for Community-led Development, featuring a tutorial on Collective Impact 3.0 and the Water of System Change…
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Standing for Human Dignity: #ShiftThePower by Transforming our Language and Actions
A full-day symposium on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Date: October 2, 2019 On the day he was assassinated, Mahatma Gandhi left behind…
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Our time at the 2019 UN High-level political forum
This year’s UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) to track progress on the 2030 Agenda – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was particularly important to the…
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Power is shifting to communities and INGOs need to be part of it
Author: Jenny Hodgson, Originally published at www.bond.org.uk, 11 March 2019. Featured photo by Anna Dubuis/DFID – CC BY-NC 2.0. Our world is changing from the…
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Dignity, Equality and Social Protection: A Call for Integrated Strategies at CSW
Every year, thousands of women’s rights activists from around the world converge on UN Headquarters in New York to push world leaders ever closer -…
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Capacity Development
2019-02-27 Special Learning Event https://youtu.be/k8bb_Q6m04w Full recording This was the first Learning Session organized by the newly-formed CLD Learning Working Group, which evolved from the…
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Breaking News – Kenya Launch!
PRESS RELEASE The Community-led Development (CLD) Movement Launches Kenya Chapter NAIROBI, 30 January 2018 –The Community-led Development (CLD) Movement today unveiled the CLD Kenya Chapter…
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Launching the Kenya Chapter
The Kenya Chapter was launched at Heifer House at an event attended by more than 100 dignitaries and community activists. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLULfsajQxbjPOfghct24I56lKR1U4YFQ5 Playlist of videos from…
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All Human Beings
The final post in our series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo: United Nations. On December 10, 1948 the newly established General…
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Women Saving the Earth
Thirteenth in the series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo: NASA December 7, 1972 – On the last Apollo mission to the…
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Women Fight Corruption
Fifteenth in our series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. December 9 is International Anti-Corruption Day. #UnitedAgainstCorruption. According to Transparency International, there are…
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Is God a Feminist?
Fourteenth in my series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo – public domain – of the painting by Francisco Rizi. December 8…
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Guns make gender-based violence deadly.
Twelfth in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo by by ZhengZhou of the sculpture “Non-Violence” by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, in front of UN…
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International Volunteer Day
December 5 is International Volunteer Day (IVD). In 2018, the theme for this day is “Volunteers build Resilient Communities,” recognizing volunteers worldwide – with a special…
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The Pill vs Gender-based Violence
Tenth in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo: iStock.com/araoraor December 4 – On this day in 1961, Britain’s National Health…
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Halting Sexual Abuse of People with Disabilities
Ninth in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo: The Hunger Project-Bangladesh December 3 is the International Day for People with…
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Community Action to End Modern Slavery
Part 8 for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. Photo: iStock.com/Favor of God December 2, 2018 is the International Day for the Abolition of…
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