Podcasts

Beyond Poverty: Outreach International
Gunjan is featured on the first episode of Outreach International’s podcast, Beyond Poverty. Her conversation with Elene Cloete took a deep dive into the dimensions of poverty that don’t always make the headlines—like dignity, stigma, and systemic barriers.

Fixing Foreign Aid: New Rules for a Broken System
Episode 1 of a three-part series features Gunjan Veda in a conversation highlighting why community-led development is the future and can be the answer to the broken system of today.

RISE: Solutions to Extreme Poverty in Rural Villages
Episodes 25 and 26 featuring Gunjan Veda

Resilient Conversations with Partners Global
From Grassroots to Global: The Role of Local Communities in Development Agenda episode with Gunjan Veda, Kyra Buchko, Co-Executive Director of PartnersGlobal, and Dr. Moses Isooba, Executive Director of the Uganda National NGO Forum.

Peace Direct’s The Problem With Partnerships
Episode 2: It Starts With Your Mind featuring Gunjan Veda
Featured Publications

By Alliance Sud, September 2025

By Global Communities, August 2024

No event about you without you, Samantha Power tells local leaders
In Devex, April 2024.

24 global development organizations to watch in 2024
In Devex, February 2024.

What do community groups think of USAID’s ‘locally led’ indicators?
By Elissa Miolene, Devex, February 2024.

Movement for Community-led Development Launches as Independent Organization
By The Hunger Project, January 2024.

The Call to End “Abject Humiliation” in Development Conferences
By Alessio Perrone, Devex, November 2023.

Makueni Opens Doors to The First Community-Led Development School in Africa
By the Government of Makueni County, March 2023.

Farmers Spearheading Community Led Development in Liberia
In FoodTank by Ian Miur Smith, February 23, 2023, also posted to Oracle News Daily

What can Local Humanitarian Action Learn from Community-Led Development?
In Catalyst McGill by Isabel Muñoz Beaulieu, October 3, 2022

Understanding the Risks of Nonparticipation in Philanthropy
By Daniel Parks, Stanford Social Innovation Review, August 2021.

Unpacking Community-led Development
By The LPS Alliance, March 12 2021.

GERALD KATO: COVID-19: The Gender and Human Rights Perspective for Community-led Response
By PML Daily, April 2020.

The Foreign Ministry and The Hunger Project Present the Movement for Community-led Development
By Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

How We Can Achieve Goal 2: Ending Hunger
By Åsa Skogström Feldt in the Huffington Post, September 2016.

Putting People First: The Movement for Community-Led Development
By John Coonrod in the Huffington Post, September 2016.

Keeping Governments Accountable Through Strong Communities
By the Millenium Challenge Corporation

