Community-Led Development in Practice

Elene Cloete is Senior Director of Research and Advocacy for Outreach International, Kansas City, USA. Her practice and research interests include: 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 policy-maker in the Indian Government’s Planning Commission.

Where Women Have a Voice Foreword INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: The Current Landscape and Practice of Community-Led Development 2. The Quest for Human Dignity: A Practitioner’s History of Community-led Development PART I. COLLABORATION/ WORKING WITH SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS Introduction to Part I 3. “The OneVillage Partners Method”: Building New Community Spaces for Consensus and Collaboration 4. Communal Land Organisations and Payments for Environmental Services in the Huasteca Potosina Region of Mexico 5. The Power of Synergy: Unlocking Sustainable Development through Collaboration in Uganda 6. To Transform Systems, Start with the Heart: CLD-Benin’s Story of Collective Impact PART II. RESPONSIVENESS TO LOCAL CONTEXT Introduction to Part II 7. When the Helped Help the Helpers Help: The Global Diffusion and Transformation of Community-Led Development Practice in an American INGO 8. Aga Khan Foundation: Adapting Community-Led Development to Diverse Contexts PART III. Participation, Inclusion and Voice/ Local Knowledge and Resources Introduction to Part III 9. The Chronicles of Chizami: How Women from a Small Naga Village Built the Road to Resilience 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 11. Local Knowledge and Resources for Community-led Development in South Africa: Looking through an Asset-based Lens PART IV. Accountability/ Sustainability and Exit Strategies Introduction to Part IV 12. From Roots to Rasin: The Story of Transition and Transformation in Haiti 13. Accountability in Community and Local Leadership: The Nuru Collective Approach to Uniting People through Place and Purpose PART V. MONITORING AND EVALUATION/ FACILITATION Introduction to Part V 14. Who Owns the Response? The Constellation: How Self-Assessment Catalyzes Ownership 15. We Build the Road and the Road Builds Us: The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement’s Participatory Community Development Model 16. Conclusion