A Few Glimpses.. A Few Memories.. A Few Achievements.. In the Life of Ramlalbhai Parikh Documented by Jyoti Jumani As Narrated by Mandaben Parikh and Mayankbhai Upadhyay December 2015 Featured photo: Ramkrishna Bajaj, Ramlal Parikh and Joan Holmes in Bayad Taluka, Gujarat, October 1988. Wernher Krutein/The Hunger Project Gujarat Vidyapith, a centre of learning based…
The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in September provide an expansive vision of what we can accomplish over the next 15 years. Unlike the previous global development agenda, they include goals for all countries, not just poor ones, and more consideration for protecting our planet. The language also emphasizes that the new…
“Community-Led Development is a development approach in which local community members work together to identify goals that are important to them, develop and implement plans to achieve those goals, and create collaborative relationships internally and with external actors—all while building on community strengths and local leadership. Community-Led Development (CLD) is characterized by 11 attributes: participationand…
Community-led development (CLD) is a science. Many of our member organizations have developed systematic CLD methodologies. Our latest review of those methodologies highlights at least 14 distinct categories of intervention—across four phases shown in the table below—to empower communities to successfully take charge of their own development on a sustainable basis. We intend to develop and…