Community-Led Development in Practice

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 Power and 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