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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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#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 […]
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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.