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New Report: Unpacking Community-led Development
Today, the Collaborative Research Team of the Movement for Community-led Development released the first phase of findings. This report represents a collaborative study of 173 programs across 65 countries that were identified by their implementing organizations as being community-led. While there have been a few attempts to capture the impact of CLD, to the best…
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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…
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Stepping into their Role: How Civil Society Organizations can strengthen the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
By Gunjan Veda On December 9, we polled a virtual room full of civil society representatives if they felt prepared to engage with the World Health Organization and the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and rollout. The answer was a resounding no. This gathering of community-led development (CLD)…
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Co-creating 2021
December’s global call by the Movement for Community-Led Development provided our movement members and national chapter leaders with the opportunity to reflect on 2020 and think collaboratively towards co-creating 2021. As Raj Kuman recently said, 2020 may have set back development by a decade, but it also accelerated the transformation of development by a decade.…