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I work for USAID in the Office of Acquisition and Assistantace helping to maintain our regulatory framework for all Agency awards.

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Using leadership to advance locally-led development

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Using leadership to advance locally-led development

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From climate change to the rise of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and increased costs of care, today’s global health challenges are complex and rapidly evolving. These challenges will not be solved with externally driven solutions or the heroics of individual leaders alone.

Teams and networks must forge diverse and untraditional coalitions to create locally designed solutions that will accelerate the transformation of health systems for tomorrow.

MSH's Leadership & Management Accelerator (LMA) program is an action-based learning approach that teams can use to more effectively face challenges, overcome obstacles, and achieve results with their own creativity--while strengthening their collective leadership, management, and governance skills.

Read more and access facilitation materials: https://msh.org/resources/leadership-and-management-accelerator-lma/

More questions? Ask us: kwilson@msh.org

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Hi everyone! I'm Kate Henderson. I work at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) as the Director for Leadership & Governance. I sit in MSH's LCS practice area and spend my time co-designing and facilitating spaces and processes for local health practitioners to come together and exercise collaborative leadership, and learning from local partners every time.

At MSH, we know that the people closest to health challenges are those best placed to solve them. The solutions are with them. We start with listening to them and creating space for them to listen to each other to imagine the future they desire, chart the road to shaping that future for themselves, and align and mobilize resources and stakeholders to get going.

I am so glad that USAID is making LCS and LLD a priority and inviting this community to help them do it better and keep us mutually accountable.

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Share Welfare Society is an independent, registered, non-government and non-profit organization based in Pakistan.

SHARE is is an independent, registered, non-government and non-profit organization and serving all ages without discrimination for human rights values, health, education and responding in emergency to most vulnerable and marginalized communities across the Pakistan.  Our Vision is “To foresee a society where communities are self-reliant, have sustainable thriving, and collective well-being by eliminating health and educational disparities and innovative solution to tackle the most pressing issues of the current age”:

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Non-Profit Organization based in Pakistan

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Hi. I'm Kim Kane, the LCS Practice Area Lead at Management Sciences for Health (MSH).

As an organization that specializes in health system strengthening, MSH has always worked shoulder-to-shoulder with local partners to be stewards for their own development. Our LCS approaches promote systems-thinking and systems-practice, so that the capacity strengthening "sticks" -- in other words, it leads to improved performance and sustained health outcomes over time. We believe that effective and sustainable capacity strengthening must go beyond increasing knowledge and competencies of individual health workers, and strengthen the ecosystem of actors in the health system to perform optimally in their specific roles as well as in relation to one another. This means fostering greater agency of the government to steward effective programming with less dependency on external aid/funders while optimizing the workforce and institutionalizing processes and tools that ensure accessible, equitable and high quality services. We utilize evidence-based approaches that empower leaders, managers, and health teams to systematically undertake collaborative learning and performance improvement initiatives, which enable them to continually find locally-appropriate solutions to any challenge that may arise; this, along with systems to optimize the workforce and ensure ongoing professional development, helps ensure local institutions remain strong and resilient over time.

We have an entire department dedicated to LCS technical excellence in LCS; and it is integrated throughout our programming. Reach out if you're interested in partnering with us!

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What's more local than a VSLA? one created and led by a group of VSLA members called Amazons. These Amazons are leading a movement across Cote d' Ivoire to spread financial literacy and galvanize women to voice their needs directly with government.

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The 18th century Amazon women of the Kingdom of Dahomey were known for their bravery, their audacity, and their innovation. Like their ancestral sisters in Dahomey, these Amazons of Côte d’Ivoire are modern-day warriors.

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CAPTALO! Curso de Capacitación  para el Avance y la Creación de Alianzas para Organizaciones Locales

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CAPTALO! Curso de Capacitación  para el Avance y la Creación de Alianzas para Organizaciones Locales

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El equipo creador del curso CAPTALO! ha diseñado 8 modulos interactivos para fortalecer las capacidades de las organizaciones locales que trabajan para el desarrollo social y económico.

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A new methodology to measure and monitor performance of local organizations: Performance Mapping and Improvement System (PERFORM) 

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A new methodology to measure and monitor performance of local organizations: Performance Mapping and Improvement System (PERFORM) 

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PERFORM is an easy-to-use, systems-oriented tool based on MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator’s Enhanced Organizational Capacity Framework that assists partners and program implementers in identifying needed performance improvement course corrections in a timely manner. PERFORM offers a comprehensive suite of performance enhancement tools and processes that instills a deeper understanding of performance improvement and a discipline of reflection and learning within an organization. The system’s framework and monitoring approach, through short-term cycles, can be applied on its own or in combination with components of other assessment tools and monitoring processes. Further, PERFORM can yield measurable results for reporting on USAID’s CBLD-9 local capacity indicator and can contribute to the best practices in USAID’s locally led programs indicator. All resources are available https://usaidmomentum.org/resource/perform/ And please reach out to Soumya Alva (salva-jsi@prb.org) if you need more information and assistance using this method.

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Performance Mapping and Improvement System (PERFORM)

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A Global Partnership for Health and Resilience

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Mesurer l'amelioration de la performance en matiere de suivi, d'evaluation, de rechcerche et d'appentissage (SERA)

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Mesurer l'amelioration de la performance en matiere de suivi, d'evaluation, de rechcerche et d'appentissage (SERA)

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Cette nouvelle ressource complète les conseils de l'USAID sur la mesure de l'amélioration des performances spécifiquement pour SERA. Conçu pour aider les organisations en partenariat pour la recherche et l'évaluation à identifier, concevoir des interventions et mesurer les résultats des investissements de renforcement des capacités.

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SR-24-226 D4I GuidePerformanceMERL_fre-FR DA 9-30-24 508c

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Webinar: Health workforce development through the lens of sustainable locally led development. October 9th, 2024, at 8:00-9:00 AM ET

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Webinar: Health workforce development through the lens of sustainable locally led development. October 9th, 2024, at 8:00-9:00 AM ET

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Join Us for an Insightful Webinar on Health Workforce Development!

MSH is thrilled to host a dynamic webinar focusing on Health Workforce Development through the lens of sustainable, locally led development. Don’t miss out on the chance to hear from our MSH expert panellists and gain valuable insights from country partnerships in Kenya #USAID-The Medicines Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program), Rwanda USAID-IREME, and Uganda # USAID-Strengthening Supply Chain Systems  (SSCS), focusing on specific health workforce issues and how, through a focus on localization, USAID-funded interventions are being undertaken to utilize a locally led capacity strengthening approach, ensuring that improvements last beyond the project cycle, under the ongoing custodianship of local organizations.

🔊 Highlight:

Come discover tools and resources from WHO for application in local country contexts!

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

🕗 Time: 8 am - 9 am ET

📍 Location: Zoom
🔗 Register here: https://msh-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GwC73RXpRgqlAqaE4Z_7BA

Speakers: Dr. Andrew Brown, Ndinda Kusu, Martin Oteba, Joseph Shema,  Catherine Kane

#HealthWorkforce #GlobalHealth #Localcapacitystrenghtening #USAID #MSH #WHO #Workforcedevelopment #Sustainabledevelopment

Please come and join our engaging discussion to explore how we are moving from policy to practice in locally led development!

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Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy 

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Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy 

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U.S. Agency for International Development

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USAID is committed to putting local communities at the center of humanitarian work.

Local organizations are often the first to respond to humanitarian crises, offer unique contextual knowledge and expertise, and have deep connections with affected communities. Partnerships with local actors are vital to providing accountable, effective, and efficient humanitarian assistance.

Through the Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy, USAID sets out five goals to realize its vision of placing local communities at the center of humanitarian work:

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USAID Policy on Locally Led Assistance | Humanitarian Assistance | U.S. Agency for International Development

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The Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Policy outlines USAID's vision and goals for advancing locally led emergency response, early recovery, resilience, and disaster risk reduction.

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Hi everyone, my name is Faith Njoku. I’m joining from Cleveland, OH. I am very happy to be here.

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This new resource supports USAID guidance on measuring improved performance, including reporting on indicator CBLD-9, specific to MERL. Designed to support organizations engaged it MERL partnerships, it provides guidance on setting priorities and goals, designing capacity strengthening interventions, mini-case studies, sample CBLD-9 reporting sheet, and a list of helpful assessment tools.

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Guidance: Operationalizing the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

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Guidance: Operationalizing the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

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LLA promises to empower local governments and communities by giving them control over adaptation finance and resources. Studies indicate that only about 10% of allocated climate funds reach local actors. LLA aims to shift decision-making power from international and national entities to local actors, promoting equitable access to resources and fostering creativity in developing locally relevant adaptation solutions. This approach also emphasizes the need for consistent and transparent funding flows, which are crucial for planning and sustainability.

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Guidance Note: Operationalizing the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

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Locally led adaptation (LLA) empowers communities to take charge of their climate adaptation strategies. By valuing local knowledge and addressing power imbalances, LLA fosters effective and equitable climate responses. This guide provides actionable insights for operationalizing LLA principles, aligning with USAID's climate strategy and commitment to sustainable, inclusive development.

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This primer provides an overview of LLA and its role as an important component of USAID’s commitment to locally led sustainable development and humanitarian action and approaches that address the climate crisis equitably.

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Climate change is a crisis that threatens lives and livelihoods the world over. Local actors are at the forefront of experiencing and addressing the impacts of climate change. They have valuable knowledge, skills, and lived experiences to contribute to and lead climate adaptation action, and to build climate resilience in ways that meet specific challenges and leverage the unique strengths of their countries and communities.

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Local communities are on the frontlines of climate change impacts, yet rarely do they and other local actors have a voice in the decisions that most affect them. We need to shift the status quo from current top-down approaches to a new model where local actors have greater power and resources to build resilience to climate change.

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Local communities are on the frontlines of climate change impacts, yet rarely do they and other local actors have a voice in the decisions that most affect them. We need to shift the status quo from current top-down approaches to a new model where local actors have greater power and resources to build resilience to climate change.

The Global Commission on Adaptation developed a set of principles, based on over a year of consultations, to strengthen locally led adaptation. As of July 2021, over 70 organizations have joined us to endorse these principles, committing to make changes and strengthening existing efforts to meet this urgent adaptation agenda.

Read the press release: 40 Governments and Leading Institutions Commit to Support Locally Led Climate Adaptation.

For more information or to get involved, please contact Tamara Coger ( tamara.coger@wri.org) and Ayesha Dinshaw ( ayesha.dinshaw@wri.org).

Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

The Principles for Locally Led Adaptation are intended to guide the adaptation community as it moves programs, funding, and practices towards adaptation that is increasingly owned by local partners. Through a community of practice, together these organizations will share progress and lessons learned to enhance our understanding of what is needed for effective, equitable locally led adaptation.

View the principles below or download the PDF version.

1. Devolving decision making to the lowest appropriate level:
Giving local institutions and communities more direct access to finance and decision-making power over how adaptation actions are defined, prioritized, designed, implemented; how progress is monitored; and how success is evaluated.

2. Addressing structural inequalities faced by women, youth, children, disabled, displaced, Indigenous Peoples and marginalised ethnic groups:
Integrating gender-based, economic, and political inequalities that are root causes of vulnerability into the core of adaptation action and encouraging vulnerable and marginalized individuals to meaningfully participate in and lead adaptation decisions.

3. Providing patient and predictable funding that can be accessed more easily:
Supporting long-term development of local governance processes, capacity, and institutions through simpler access modalities and longer term and more predictable funding horizons, to ensure that communities can effectively implement adaptation actions.

4. Investing in local capabilities to leave an institutional legacy:
Improving the capabilities of local institutions to ensure they can understand climate risks and uncertainties, generate solutions, and facilitate and manage adaptation initiatives over the long term without being dependent on project-based donor funding.

5. Building a robust understanding of climate risk and uncertainty:
Informing adaptation decisions through a combination of combination of local, traditional, Indigenous, generational and scientific knowledge that can enable resilience under a range of future climate scenarios.

6. Flexible programming and learning:
Enabling adaptive management to address the inherent uncertainty in adaptation, especially through robust monitoring and learning systems, flexible finance, and flexible programming.

7. Ensuring transparency and accountability:
Making processes of financing, designing, and delivering programs more transparent and accountable downward to local stakeholders.

8. Collaborative action and investment:
Collaboration across sectors, initiatives and levels to ensure that different initiatives and different sources of funding (humanitarian assistance, development, disaster risk reduction, green recovery funds, etc.) support each other, and their activities avoid duplication, to enhance efficiencies and good practice.

Endorsing organizations

Any organization is invited to join the 70+ organizations that have already endorsed these principles. Endorsing organizations are encouraged to share how they will change or strengthen current practices to better incentivize or support locally led adaptation.

To raise global ambition and action on locally led adaptation, become an endorsing organization by filling out this commitment form and sharing it with us at locallyledadaptation@wri.org.

The following organizations have endorsed these principles:

List of endorsing organizations includes:
ACT Alliance; Act Church of Sweden; The Adaptation Fund; Africa Climate Action Initiative; BRAC International; CARE; Caribbean Natural Resources Institute; Catholic Relief Services; Centro para la Autonomía y Desarollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI); Climate Action Network South Asia; Climate Change Africa Opportunities; Climate & Development Advice; Climate Investment Funds; Climate Resilience Justice Fund; DanChurchAid; E Co.; Friendship; Global Center on Adaptation; Global Environment Facility; Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction; Global Resilience Partnership; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Heveltas; Hivos; Huairou Commission; InterAction; International Centre for Climate Change and Development; International Institute for Environment and Development; International Institute for Sustainable Development; International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent; The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Irish Aid; ISET International; Islamic Relief Worldwide; London School of Economics; Mahila Housing SEWA Trust; Media Awareness and Justice Initiative; Fauna & Flora International; Fundación Avina; Fundecooperación; Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO); Mennonite Central Committee U.S.; Mercy Corps; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Mutual Trust Bank of Bangladesh; Near East Foundation; Opportunity International; Oxfam; Pan African Climate Justice Alliance; Participatory Research in Asia; PlanAdapt; Power for All; Practical Action; Runa Ray; Save the Children; Slum Dwellers International; SMART Initiative; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); Tebtebba; UK Foreign, Cooperation & Development Office; UN Capital Development Fund; UN Development Programme; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Vita; Wangki Tangni; Water Aid; Women's Climate Centers International; World Resources Institute; WWF International; Youth Climate Lab; Zurich Foundation; Zurich Insurance.

Videos

Watch videos below to hear from leaders on why they are endorsing the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation.

Hear from Endorsing Organizations

Watch the Climate Adaptation Summit Locally Led Anchor Event

Watch the Locally Led Adaptation Event at COP26

Learn more about Locally Led Adaptation

Learn more about locally led adaptation through the below resources from WRI and IIED. For more about locally led adaptation at World Resources Institute, visit wri.org/adaptation.

WRI Resources

IIED Resources
Photo credit: LoGIC Project-UNDP Bangladesh

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Register your Organization with Work With USAID

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Register your Organization with Work With USAID

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Si aún no lo ha hecho, registre su organización en el sitio web “Work With USAID”

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Online Micro-Trainings on the LCS Policy 

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Online Micro-Trainings on the LCS Policy 

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Includes games and more!

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Local Capacity Strengthening Policy | USAID Learning Lab

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Launched in October 2022, the Local Capacity Strengthening Policy(link is external) guides all USAID development and humanitarian activities to support effective local capacity strengthening through effective and equitable partnerships. A key component of the localization(link is external) agenda, this Policy builds on decades of experience and evidence. The Local Capacity Strengthening Policy encourages collaborating with and learning from local actors and building on and supporting existing local knowledge and capacity. It also supports a culture that enables CLA with a focus on mutuality, learning, and trust-based relationships.

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News & Insights Blog | Work with USAID | Work With USAID

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The News & Insights blog provides inspiration, guidance, and tips for partners seeking to work with USAID.