From 2012-2014, the United Nations Democracy Fund supported The Hunger Project to build a community of practice on Participatory Local Democracy. This community was mobilized to comprise dozens of local pro-democracy civil society groups in more than 70 countries.
Following a series of regional meetings in Africa, Asia and Latin America in 2012, a small secretariat team in Washington DC developed a multidimensional Participatory Local Democracy Index and solicited input from all participating countries to issue State of Participatory Local Democracy Reports during the 2013 and 2014 UN General Assembly.
UNDEF does not “renew” grants – it intends to make a catalytic investment, and with this project they succeeded. It led directly to the launch of the Movement for Community-led Development alongside the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015.
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Introducing the RDLG Bibliographic Database
We are pleased to announce that the Rural Decentralization and Local Government (RDLG) Database, with its 1600 bibliographic entries – is now part of this website. The Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands has, for many years, supported its development and operation within its KIT Information and Library Services. When the services closed in August 2013 due…
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Local Solutions in the Philippines
June 10, 2015 – Washington DC: Save the Children launched a new report today assessing the results of USAID’s “Local Solutions” initiative in the Philippines. It was launched in partnership with the Brookings Global Economy and Development at the National Press Club. Save the Children president Carolyn Miles introduced a panel moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow George…
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Localize Aid
Washington DC – March 25, 2015. Today marked the launch of an important new report by Oxfam America calling upon the US government to “adopt a locally driven approach” to fighting corruption. The 32-page report presents 9 specific recommendations towards this goal.
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Two-Year Review
As we start the pivotal year of 2015, we celebrate the completion of the pioneering investment by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) in building our global community of practice. I invite all of us to reflect on these past two years – what has been achieved by this project – and how we can build…
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Le 2014 Rapport est ici!
Le Rapport de l’État de Démocratie Participative 2014(SPDR) présente la plus vaste étude mondiale comparative connue à ce jour sur l’une des questions les plus importantes, mais le plus souvent ignorées, dans le développement – l’efficacité du gouvernement local. Heureusement, alors que le monde formule ses Objectifs de Développement Durable (SDG) pour éradiquer la faim…