Community-Led Development in Practice We Power Our Own Change

Where Women Have a Voice

H.E Dr. Joyce Banda, Malawi

Foreword

Scott Guggenheim

INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction: The Current Landscape and Practice of Community-Led Development

Gunjan Veda and Elene Cloete

2. The Quest for Human Dignity: A Practitioner’s History of Community-led Development

John Coonrod

Part I: Collaboration/Working With Sub-National Governments

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

3. “The OneVillage Partners Method”: Building New Community Spaces for Consensus and Collaboration

Chad Mccordic, Sheku Mohamed Gassimu Jr., Nyagajia Rogers Mustapha and Vanessa Wood with Philemon Vandi McSenesie, Fatmata Lansana, and Moigua Bockarie

4. Communal Land Organisations and Payments for Environmental Services in the Huasteca Potosina Region of Mexico

Aida Ramos Viera

5. The Power of Synergy: Unlocking Sustainable Development through Collaboration in Uganda

Amani Initiative

6. To Transform Systems, Start with the Heart: CLD-Benin’s Story of Collective Power and Collective Impact

PART II: RESPONSIVENESS TO LOCAL CONTEXT

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

7. When the Helped Help the Helpers Help: The Global Diffusion and Transformation of Community-Led Development Practice in an American INGO

David J Howlett and Matthew Breay Bolton

8. Aga Khan Foundation: Adapting Community-Led Development to Diverse Contexts

Matt Reeves

Part III: Participation, Inclusion and Voice/Local Knowledge and Resources

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

9. The Chronicles of Chizami: How Women from a Small Naga Village Built the Road to Resilience

Monisha Behal

10. What Participation Means in a Divided Indigenous Community: The Case of an Engineers Without Borders Water Project among the Ch’orti’ Maya of Eastern Guatemala

Brent Metz

11. Local Knowledge and Resources for Community-led Development in South Africa: Looking through an Asset-based Lens

Hanna Nel

Part IV: Accountability/Sustainability and Exit Strategies

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

12. From Roots to Rasin: The Story of Transition and Transformation in Haiti

Chad W. Bissonnette and Louino Robillard 

13. Accountability in Community and Local Leadership: The Nuru Collective Approach to Uniting People through Place and Purpose

Simon Eli, Amy Gaman, Casey Harrison, Matt Lineal, Abiy Meshesha, and Pauline Wambeti

Part V: Monitoring and Evaluation/Facilitation

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

14. Who Owns the Response? The Constellation: How Self-Assessment Catalyses Ownership in the Work of The Constellation

Essa Mohamed Rafique, Rituu B. Nanda, Marlou De Rouw, and Philip Forth

15. We Build the Road and the Road Builds Us: The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement’s Participatory Community Development Model

Vinya S. Ariyaratne and Udesh Fernando

16. Conclusion

Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda

Biography

Elene Cloete is Senior Director of Research and Advocacy for Outreach International, Kansas City, USA. Her practice and research interests include the following: the role of motivation, basic psychological needs, and self-regulation in development; community leadership; the hidden benefits of improved sanitation; and locally led monitoring and evaluation practice. Elene is a social anthropologist by training.

Gunjan Veda is Global Secretary for the Movement for Community-led Development, a Majority World-led network of networks with 2000+ local organisations and their INGO allies. Her work includes creating collaborative partnerships, and interrogating structural violence in existing systems, forms of knowledge production and publication to make them more inclusive and equitable. Gunjan has previously worked within the non-profit sector in India and was a policymaker in the Indian Government’s Planning Commission. She has published two books: Beautiful Country: Stories from Another India, and The Museum of Broken Tea Cups.