Tag: Community Led Development

• Inter-Epicenter Exchanges to Strengthen Local Leadership

  

  The Hunger Project-Senegal has initiated an approach associated with The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy. Senegal was the first African country of intervention for The Hunger Project, starting in 1991. THP-Senegal continues to build sustainable community-based programs using the Epicenter Strategy. The strategy was devised in Africa, by Africans, and for Africans. To date, it has…

  Zyra Quirante

  November 11, 2015

  Activism, Community-led development, Leadership, Meetings

  Africa, Community Led Development, Epicenter Strategy, global leadership, Senegal, the hunger project

• Women and the Role of Husbandry for Stronger Community-led Development

  

  We live in a world where women still continue to fight for equal rights. They are not given the option to make decisions and their needs are only secondary to men. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), women comprise an average of 43 percent of the agricultural labour force of developing countries…

  Zyra Quirante

  October 27, 2015

  Community-led development, Gender, Human Rights, livelihoods

  Africa, animal, Community Led Development, FAO, Gender Equality, Grassroots, heifer international, Human Rights, Local Government, Women Empowerment