Author: MCLD Team
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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 from households in emergency response situations — that they get “assessed” by multiple agencies, some of whom they never see again. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fMyUBHmmA] Click here to download a discussion paper, and […]
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April 6 IFPRI Event
One sea-change from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is Goal 16, which calls for participatory decision-making at all levels, including the community level where basic needs are met. The SDGs also call for integrated solutions – especially critical for nutrition, women’s economic empowerment and resilience – and this integration must happen at the community level.
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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 The Millennium Challenge Corporation Held Thursday, March 31, 2016 || 12:30 – 14:00 pm || Room MC 7-860 Read the Blog Post here by Christopher Colford that reported on the […]
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CSW60: Women’s Leadership and Community-Led Development
During the 60th U.N. Commission on the status of Women, The Hunger Project and the Movement for Community-led Development, a network of over 30 NGOs, hosted a parallel event an event to show the vital importance of women’s leadership for community-led development, and what is required to make it work. Individual Segments ]13:47[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34q_QggPY38]11:14[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6KJtCxi0c]
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CSW60: Empowerment-based Strategies to Build Resilience
Experts from Relief International, Solar Cookers International and The Hunger Project-Mexico share their approaches.
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Methodology of Restless Development
Jamie Bedson explains a model that emphasizes the structure and process of engagement, the “how” (community-led, recruitment, training, support, safety and security, monitoring) alongside the actual mobilization itself, the “what.”
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All Politics is Local: Building Grassroots Democracy
The old saying that “All politics is local” is especially true when it comes to overcoming poverty and hunger. Issues of good nutrition, primary education, primary health care, water and sanitation, skills training, preserving the environment and ensuring public safety are all local issues. Nations can allocate budgets and launch national programs, but actually getting basic public services to work requires good local government.
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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
The Philippines is home to one of the largest-scale community-led development programs.
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Launching the Movement
Leading international organizations call for a process that empowers citizens at the local level.