The Movement for Community-led Development

The Movement for Community-led Development

  • Who we are
    • Welcome and Introduction
    • Manifesto
    • Defining Community-led Development
    • Theory of Change
    • History of CLD
    • History of this Movement
    • Member Profiles
    • Secretariat Team
    • Internships
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    • Links to other relevant networks
  • What we do
    • At a glance
    • Accountability
    • Collaborative Research
    • Events & Videos
    • Policy Advocacy to #ShiftThePower
    • Working Groups
  • Countries
    • Africa – Central
    • Africa – East
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
      • Rwanda
      • Uganda
    • Africa – South
      • Malawi
      • Zambia
    • Africa – West
      • Benin
      • Burkina Faso
      • Ghana
      • Nigeria
      • Liberia
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • Americas
      • Mexico
      • Venezuela
      • USA
    • Asia
    • Europe
      • The Netherlands
      • UK
  • Resources
    • Advocacy Calendar 2022
    • Latest Events
    • Analytic Framework
    • Annotated Bibliographies by Sector
    • Evidence
    • Facilitation Guides
    • Links to relevant websites
    • Methodology
    • Publications
  • Capacity Strengthening
    • (Un)Learning Lab
    • COVID-19
    • Network weaving
    • Domestic resource mobilization
    • Designing events differently
    • School for CLD
  • SDGs
    • SDG 1: Livelihoods
    • SDG 2: Nutrition
    • SDG 3: Health
    • SDG 4: Education
    • SDG 5: Gender Equality
    • SDG 6: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
    • SDG 13: Climate
    • SDG 16: Justice and Accountability
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  • MCLD Highlights of 2022

    MCLD Highlights of 2022

    With our members’ leadership and commitment, community-led development (CLD) continued to gain traction this year and we have seen how differently CLD can be done through diverse local visions. Looking to 2023, we are eager to continue this push to center local voices! Join us in celebrating some of the Movement for Community-led Development’s highlights […]

    Sera Bulbul

    January 26, 2023
    news
  • MCLD Listening Cafés: Bring your voice to our transition

    MCLD Listening Cafés: Bring your voice to our transition

    MCLD has begun a process to co-create our future. At this time, we have designed an outreach conversation with members and other stakeholders that will take the form of a Listening Café. We invite you to sign up for a 45-minute meeting to bring your voice to this moment of transition while we intentionally listen. […]

    Sera Bulbul

    January 26, 2023
    news
  • Monthly Call! Systems Change and MCLD-Uganda!

    Monthly Call! Systems Change and MCLD-Uganda!

    This month, our colleagues unveiled two new journal articles based on inputs from many of our members, plus we began a new practice of hearing from one MCLD National Association each month. This month featured MCLD-Uganda with its 83 members. We heard from its chair Nixon Ochatre and coordinator Joanna Mbakulo. Video Recording of the […]

    MCLD Team

    January 25, 2023
    Case Studies, Community-led development, Events, monthly, Uganda, Video
  • Take the Survey on the 50% Metric

    Take the Survey on the 50% Metric

    The USAID Administrator has committed to 50% of USAID funding putting communities in the driver’s seat by 2030. USAID has identified 30 good practices (listed below) towards this goal. We’d like to collect your input by January 31 on these practices to share with USAID! Featured image: by Ana Flávia on Unsplash

    MCLD Team

    January 24, 2023
    Community-led development, Policy Recommendations
  • Join us at the UN Partnership Forum: Shift the Power for Post-COVID SDG Progress

    Join us at the UN Partnership Forum: Shift the Power for Post-COVID SDG Progress

    The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) invites all relevant stakeholders to the 2023 Partnership Forum with the theme: “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels.” Registration is open until January 23, and those without a UN grounds pass can […]

    MCLD Team

    January 19, 2023
    Community-led development, covid-19, Events, sdgs
  • Shaping USAID’s 50% metric

    Shaping USAID’s 50% metric

    Today more than 190 representatives of community-based organizations engaged with USAID officials on the process of fulfilling the administrator’s goal that 50% of USAID programs will put communities in the driver’s seat. Here is the recording — we still have lots of work to do to distill the wisdom of the participants, so come back […]

    MCLD Team

    January 10, 2023
    Events, Policy Recommendations, Video
  • Reflection on MCLD’s (Un)Learning Labs

    Reflection on MCLD’s (Un)Learning Labs

    “Unlearning is the highest level of learning” You know that feeling when you find something that you have been searching for your entire life? You step in the room…virtual or in-person…listen, and slowly find yourself instantly nodding in agreement, while also asking the question, “How am I just now finding myself here?” I know the […]

    MCLD Team

    January 4, 2023
    news
  • Special Year End Call: Achievements of 2022 and Vision for 2023

    Special Year End Call: Achievements of 2022 and Vision for 2023

    As MCLD evolves into an independent, global network of networks, members came together to share what their national MCLD associations have achieved in 2022 and their aspirations for 2023. Here is the recording. We are in the process of compiling the inputs and will add them to this post in coming days.

    MCLD Team

    December 15, 2022
    Community-led development, monthly, Youth
  • #ShiftThePower for Health Equity

    #ShiftThePower for Health Equity

    A major theme at the 2022 Global Health Council’s Landscape Symposium has been health equity. We in MCLD believe that the only way to ensure people’s right to health is to ensure they have the collective voice to demand it. We organized a concurrent session at the symposium to address the question — now that […]

    MCLD Team

    December 8, 2022
    Events, Health, news, Video
  • Young Agro-Green Africa Network (YAGANET): Leveraging Community Resources

    Young Agro-Green Africa Network (YAGANET): Leveraging Community Resources

    Baluku Isaya is from the Rwenzori sub-region in Mid-Western Uganda. He is passionate about community-led initiatives and grew up in a farming background, where he cultivated his love of nature. In this month’s column, Baluku shares his journey to founding YAGANET, an organization focused on community-based interventions and unleashing the power in young people and women, and delves into how he lives through a positive mindset to impact his community.

    Sera Bulbul

    December 1, 2022
    Movement Matters
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A Community of Practice

We collect and disseminate the methodologies and best practices utilized by our members to mobilize and empower communities to take charge of their own development and end hunger and extreme poverty. Click here to subscribe to our mailing lists.

A Body of Evidence

This website collates and share the field experience and evaluation results that demonstrate the impact of community-led development and under what conditions it is more and less successful.

A Transformative Campaign

The movement is an opportunity for your organization – globally and in each country – to play a catalytic role to transform the paradigm of development

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How We Work

The Movement is an open collaboration of its members. The Hunger Project provides secretariat services to the Movement.

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