Category: news
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Power is shifting to communities and INGOs need to be part of it
Our world is changing from the ground up. Whether a community-owned pub in the UK, participatory budget-making in Spain, a community endowment fund in Zimbabwe, or a post-earthquake bare-foot volunteer programme in Nepal, local communities are finding new ways of deciding things and doing things for themselves.
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Innovations in Malawi
At the May 2019 Global Call of the Movement for Community-led Development, we had two excellent presentations: Claudia Liebler, co-founder of Root Change, presented their “Social Labs” approach pioneered in two districts of Malawi. Rowlands Kaotcha, Southern Africa regional coordinator for The Hunger Project based in Malawi, presented the Epicenter Strategy, now active in 127…
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Tips “4” Social Protection
Design is more important than affordability. Regarding? Well, arguably anything. But let’s consider social protection. Let’s first about the fact that approximately 55% of the world’s population does not have full social protection (that’s about 4 billion people). Let’s also think about the reality that in developing contexts or developing countries, the percentage of national…