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Sustaining and Growing Our Network

Connect our 320+ member global community through peer exchange, shared learning, and regular convenings that turn practitioner experience into collective knowledge on locally led development

Provide targeted technical assistance to network members advancing locally led approaches in their own contexts

Expanding Our Evidence Base

Produce publications, tools, and case studies that translate a decade of locally led practice into resources the broader sector can use

Conduct an evaluation of the Local Works program to document what worked, what didn't, and what it actually takes to shift power at scale

Putting Ideas of Locally Led Development into Action

Pilot co-created, trust-based funding models with our network of 400+ community-based partners

Launch joint grants and other resourced community-to-community connections across borders around shared challenges, empowering peer learning, reciprocal exchange, and solidarity between communities

Shaping the Future of Development

Develop the Locally Led Development Playbook — a practical policy, legal, and operational blueprint for the next generation of U.S. foreign assistance

Engage policymakers, Congressional staff, and key sector audiences to advance locally led development in policy and practice

Building Domestic Partnerships

Build a broad domestic constituency for community-led global cooperation through storytelling, public narrative, and community engagement

Enable alliances, convenings, and shared learning that advance locally led development as a principle applicable everywhere, connecting leaders and practitioners of community-led work wherever it is happening