Community-led development in practice : we power our own change / edited by Elene Cloete and Gunjan Veda.

Where women have a voice / Joyce Banda -- Introduction : the current landscape and practice of community-led development / Gunjan Veda -- The quest for human dignity : a practitioner's history of community-led development / John Coonrod -- "The OneVillage partners method" : building new community spaces for consensus and collaboration / Chad Mccordic, Sheku Mohamed Gassimu, Rogers Nyangajia, and Vanessa Wood with Philomon Mcsenesie, Fatmata Mouigua, And Moigua Bockarie -- Communal land organisations and payments for environmental services in the Huasteca Potosina Region of Mexico / Aida Ramos Viera -- The power of synergy : unlocking sustainable development through collaboration in Uganda / Amani Initiative -- To transform systems, start with the heart : CLD-Benin's story of collective impact / the Movement For Community-Led Development Benin (CLD-Benin) -- 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 -- Aga Khan Foundation : adapting community-led development to diverse contexts Aga Khan Development Network, Global / Matt Reeves -- The chronicles of Chizami : how women from a small Naga village built the road to resilience / Monisha Behal -- 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 -- Local knowledge and resources for community-led development in South Africa : looking through an asset-based lens / Hanna Nel -- From roots to rasin : the story of transition and transformation in Haiti / Chad W. Bissonnette and Louino Robillard -- 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, Pauline Wambeti -- Who owns the response? The constellation : how self-assessment catalyzes ownership / Essa M. Rafique, Rituu B. Nanda, Marlou De Rouw, Philip Forth -- We build the road and the road builds us : the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement's participatory community development model / Vinya S. Ariyaratne and Udesh Fernando.

"In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development. However, there is little clarity on what such centring entails and how it can be achieved. This edited volume addresses this gap by highlighting what community-led practices look like and how they compare across different sociocultural and organisational landscapes. Bringing together the work of over 30 international authors, ranging from experienced community-led development practitioners to acclaimed scholars, the book reflects on and critically analyses grassroots initiatives, national-level organisations, and larger-scale international operations. The case studies demonstrate the similarities and differences in community-led practices according to organisational size and spread, while documenting the process of human change that these practices unleash. The volume's overarching structure reflects the characteristics and processes of community-led development, captured via nine different dimensions: participation inclusion and voice; local resources; sustainability and exit strategies; accountability; responsiveness to context; collaboration (including working with sub-national governments); community-led monitoring and evaluation practices; and facilitation. The book will be of interest to funders, organisations and practitioners looking for non-western, non-dominant, everyday stories of change. It will also be useful to policy makers, students, and researchers from the fields of community development and international development theory and practice"-- Provided by publisher.