Can principles of Community-led Development define the future of our sector? By introducing their recent publication, We Power our Own Change, authors in this seminar will reflect on the practices, insights, and the potential principles of Community-led Development and what it holds for the future of international development.
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What is Community-led Development? How does it work, where, and for whom? With these questions in mind and in collaboration with academics, practitioners, and advocates from both Minority and Majority contexts, Gunjan Veda and Elene Cloete compiled an edited volume, Community-led Development in Practice: We Power our Own Change.
The volume sets the stage for engaging conversations that include – how community-led development manifests across different contextual, geopolitical, and organizational spaces, how functions at scale, and how it can lead to multidirectional collaborations between different institutions, funders, government agencies, while acknowledging the centrality of local actors.
In this seminar you will learn more about the volume, its content. During the event, the editors, contributing authors, and other speakers will discuss the impetus of the volume, introduce the nine dimensions of community-led development (the volume’s framework), and reflect on how the framework might contribute to the current discourse on international development. With the principles of community-led development as vantage point, the event will also provide an opportunity to reflect on persistent dichotomies between domestic and international development practices.
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Speakers
- Gunjan Veda, Global Secretary, The Movement for Community-led Development
- Elene Cloete, Director Research and Advocacy, Outreach International
- Matthew Reeves, Global Lead on Civil Society, Aga Khan Foundation
- Marina Apgar, IDS Research Fellow and Cluster Leader, Participation, Inclusion & Social Change.
Chair
Mariah Cannon, Researcher, Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Cluster, IDS.
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