Chronicles of a Transformative Movement: Strengthening our Interconnectedness, by Gunjan Veda and the whole Movement for Community-led Development, June 28, 2023.
The community-led worldview of systems change: a framework centering local knowledge and aspirations in pursuit of transformational sustainability and resilience. Part 1, by Pascal Djohossou, Sera Bulbul, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins, February 15, 2023.
Creating spaces for knowledge decolonization: changing relationships and shifting power dynamics for co-creation across the Movement for Community-led Development. Part 2, by Pascal Djohossou, Sera Bulbul, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins, February 15, 2023.
Community-led Development, Sherri Torjman and Anne Makhoul, January 2012, Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
Learning By Doingby Inspiring Communities in New Zealand presents comprehensive thinking, learning, examples and results from community-led activities. It’s become a ‘must have’ handbook for people and organisations wanting to empower and support locally-led change.
Tell the People: Conversations with James Yen, Pearl Buck, 1945. Y.C. James Yen was founder of China’s Rural Reconstruction Movement in the 1920s and later founded IIRR in the Philippines. For two days at her farm in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize winning novelist pulled from Yen a comprehensive picture of his methodology. (Out of print, contact John Coonrod about ebooks).
Address by Judith Karl, Executive Secretary, UN Capital Development Fund, at the event “No Transformation Without Localization”
Address by Pope Francis to the UN General Assembly September 2015. “To enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny. Integral human development and the full exercise of human dignity cannot be imposed. They must be built up and allowed to unfold”