July 28, 2021 – On the monthly global call, members shared stories of youth community leadership, and took a deep dive with our West Africa Regional Director – Pascal Djohossou – into the strategic process and impact of MCLD-Benin.
When Women Lead
Fourth in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence On this day in 1919, American-born Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (Lady Astor) became…
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Denying Health Care is Violence
Third in a series for 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. Photo: The Hunger Project – women’s march at the Bissiga epicenter. There is…
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Community Leadership to Halt Gender-based Violence
November 26 – Second in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. How do women living in impoverished, deeply conservative rural communities…
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Halting Gender-based Violence is Job #1
First in a series for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. November 25 is the International Day for the elimination of Violence Against Women.…
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UNGA 2018: Youth, Technology and Social Business
https://youtu.be/S40Kjio-Kcs On September 25, 2018 the Movement for Community-led Development participated in a high-level side event on Social Business, Youth and Technology on the opening day of…
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Integration and Community Leadership Needs More Than Just Funding Changes
The nature of our world is multi-nodal and, with technology, today’s means of accountability, collaboration, communication and fulfillment of responsibilities are evolving to reflect integration.…
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The struggle for human rights starts in the community
December 10 is Human Rights Day – the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. I recently attended a…
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A Toe-hold for Localizing the SDGs: Top 10 things we learned at the HLPF
From July 10-19, 2017 world leaders gathered at the 2017 High Level Political Forum to review progress on the 2030 Agenda – the Sustainable Development…
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10 Ways to #ShiftThePower
How can we track progress on “localizing the SDGs” and building strong communities? I had a striking experience this Spring in rural Benin (photo above).…
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Leave No Voice Behind
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBU1Qxc08wT3FNK87IhNU25aIckmmQrlu Leaving No Voice Behind: Taking Community-led Development to National Scale Within country-owned strategies, NGOs have a competitive advantage in community-mobilization and capacity building. How…
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CSW 2017 – Leave No Woman’s Voice Behind: Community-led Development at Scale
The Movement for Community-led Development will once again host a parallel event during the 61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.…
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Putting People First at #UNGA
September 22, 2016 – New York City, NY: “Putting People First: Community-led Development” featured leaders from the UN and Civil Civil Society describing the growing…
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The White House Summit on Global Development: Celebration, Legacy, and Looking Forward
The Obama administration took July 20th to celebrate almost eight years of global development policies, strategies, and initiatives. The summit hosted six panels around youth,…
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Watch the June 7 Webinar on Integrated Response Approach
Here is the recording of our second webinar – with Donal Reilly of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to discuss an approach to address the #1 complaint…
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April 6 IFPRI Event
April 6, 2016 – Washington, DC: Movement member IFPRI – the International Food Policy Research Institute – co-hosted a special event with our movement -…
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March 31 BBL with the World Bank CDD Global Solutions Group
Sponsored by the Community Driven Development Global Solutions Group The Movement for Community-led Development: Strategy for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals The Hunger Project and…
Read MoreCSW60: Empowerment-based Strategies to Build Resilience
Building community-level resilience is a critical pathway to achieving the Sustainable Development goals. At this parallel event chaired by the CEO of Relief International (RI),…
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Launching the Movement
September 30, 2015 – NEW YORK, NY – Eighteen leading international organizations launched today the Movement for Community-Led Development, calling for a process that empowers…
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