In addition to the excellent websites of our members, here are additional collective efforts relevant to advancing community-led development.
- Academy for Systems Change – a global community of individuals and organizations for transforming social systems.
- Community-Driven Development – World Bank.
- Decentralization.net – the online platform of the Local Public Sector Alliance
- DeLog: Decentralisation & Local Governance
- Global Fund for Community Foundations – #ShiftThePower
- Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments
- ICLD: International Center for Local Democracy
- International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
- Lex Localis – Journal of Local Self Government
- Local2030.org – a strategic, multi-partner Hub to catalyze solutions for implementation of the SDGs at the local level hosted by the UN.
- Local Economic Development Forum – Coming up in October. UNDP
- MESH: a collaborative open-access web space for people involved in community engagement with health research in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
- Near – CSOs in global South to ensure genuine local participation at all levels of development and disaster management.
- One by One: Target 2030 is a multi-level advocacy campaign led by The Access Challenge and H.E. Former President Jakaya M. Kikwete, in support of WHO’s UHC agenda.
- Participatory Local Democracy with State of Participatory Democracy Reports, by The Hunger Project
- People First Community – a cross-sectoral and globally diverse group of practitioners, academics, and public and private sector actors with a shared belief in the importance of prioritizing investing in collective leadership development as a path for sustainable development.
- Praia Group on Governance Statistics
- SDG16 Data Initiative
- ShiftThePower
- UCLG: United Cities and Local Governments – The Global Network of Cities, Local and Regional Governments
- V-Dem – the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the Universities of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Notre Dame, USA. “a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections.”