Category: Events
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Feminism and Food Systems
The March global Zoom gathering of the Movement for Community-led Development featured special presentations by: Ritu Sharma, president of Radiant Advocacy and a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States. Learn more at this link, and scroll to the bottom to sign on! Joanna Veltri,…
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First Asia Zoom Call: Experience Sharing with BRAC and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
March 17, 2021: More than 40 Community-led Development practitioners and supporters from across Asia – from Afghanistan to Australia – came together last night to discuss the methodologies of two of the largest, oldest and most successful Community-led Development (CLD) programs in the world: BRAC’s Community Empowerment Program (link to their website), which currently reaches…
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What Transformation Takes
February 2021: This month, the MCLD Learning Working Group hosted a discussion on responsible transitions to locally led entities including Grace Boone, Program Manager at CDA Collaborative Learning, Pauline Wambeti, Director of Nuru Kenya, and Sia Nowrojee, program lead of the UN Foundation’s Girl Up program. Our speakers discussed practical lessons for how shifts in…
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President Joyce Banda Keynotes January 27 Event
When local people are a part of the solution, they are an unstoppable force for justice, change, and achievement. Dr. Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi Purpose of the January 27, 2021 event Present new research findings on the current practice of community-led development (CLD) Introduce new tools development actors can use to strengthen the…