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Local Means Local: Community Leadership and Facilitation in CLD

The Movement for Community-led Development (MCLD) invites you to Local Means Local: Community Leadership and Facilitation in CLD , a two-part bi-lingual learning event to share the findings from phase 2 of our collaborative research. Join the webinar as MCLD shares the key findings, implications, and recommendations from a Rapid Realist Review of 56 community-led programs. The keynote address will be presented by Ambassador Donald Steinberg . Ambassador Steinberg serves as Expert Adviser to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he focuses on expanding locally-led development and humanitarian assistance, aligning U.S. policies with the U.N

The Minimum Economic Recovery Standards Training Course

The Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS) are the internationally recognized consensus on best practices for building economic resilience for crisis-affected communities. SEEP developed and refined MERS over a ten-year process with input from hundreds of organizations and practitioners. Launched in 2017 with funding from USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, SEEP’s Mainstreaming MERS initiative is designed to increase awareness, sustained learning, and wide-scale uptake of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards by organizations working in disaster response and economic recovery. The objective of this training is to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills to understand and advocate for the

What Results Did the MSD Approach Deliver? A Review of the Latest Evidence

Every two years, BEAM conducts a review of the results emerging from programmes that use the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach. The review examines their impacts on businesses, incomes and the livelihoods of people living in poverty. The 2021 evidence review analysed 52 new documents from the BEAM Evidence Map. These included impact assessments, evaluations, annual reports, evidence briefs and case studies. In this webinar, the review authors will provide an independent response to the main issues raised by the review. The presentations will summarise the key findings and identify patterns, challenges and lessons from the evaluation of MSD practice