Gunjan Veda, Holta Trandafili and Martha Cruz Zuniga POLICY SEMINAR Examining the State of Community-led Development Programming Co-Organized by IFPRI and Movement for Community-led Development APR 7, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT

1. Examining the State
of Community-led
Development
Programming
April 7, 2021
The Movement for
Community-Led Development
Photo credit

2. Lethal chemicals
Poaching
Wildlife trafficking
Trophy hunters
Launched in 2015
72 INGOs
1500+ local CSOs
National Chapters AND Working
Groups
Development is Local!

3. Purpose and Lines of Inquiry
Collaborative evidence synthesis to understand
current CLD practices, and the complex relationship
between CLD and development outcomes.
Movement for Community-led Development
o How, why, and under what circumstances does CLD
result in improved development outcomes?
o How do we adapt existing methodologies to
measure the impact of CLD?
35 people from 23 organizations

4. Characteristics of CLD
CLD Assessment Tool
Landscape of CLD
programming
Impact of CLD - short,
medium, and long term
Quality Appraisal Tool
Rapid Realist Review
Meta-synthesis
Research Structure
Experts:
Scott Guggenheim, Nazneen
Kanji, Jo Howard, Prof Kent
Glenzer, Prof Gill Westhorp,
Prof Elisabeth King
Scoping sub-
group
What is CLD?
Impact sub-group
What does CLD
do?
Evaluation sub-
group
How do we capture
the impact of CLD?
Advisory group
Guidance, rigor
and quality control
Movement for Community-led Development

5. Unpacking Community-
Led Development:
Landscape Report
CLD Assessment Tool -
Practicing CLD
Quality Appraisal Tool
for CLD Evaluations -
Evaluating CLD
Research Products
Movement for Community-led Development

6. Movement for Community-led Development

7. 1. What are organizations doing as part of their CLD programming?
2. How does the nature of CLD programming vary across context?
11 characteristics
CLD Rubric
Application in 173 evaluation
and program reports out of 400+
What is CLD?
“Theories-in-use”
Practitioner perspectives
Literature
reviews
Learning by doing
Practitioner feedback
State of CLD programming
report
Inter-rater reliability (>70%)

8. Method: Decision Tree and Data Extraction
Program Information
Program Characteristics
Rubric (9 dimensions -The
CLD Assessment tool)
Reports submitted
(419 reports)
Is it a baseline, meta, or
duplicate report?
Are any elements of CLD
discernible?
Is submitting organization
overrepresented?
Reports accepted
(173 reports)
Removed from the pool (not
analyzed)
73 reports removed randomly
(to ensure proportional
representation)
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
4 reports
removed
Movement for Community-led Development

9. 1. Participation, Inclusion and Voice
2. Local Resources
3. Sustainability and Exit Strategies
4. Accountability
5. Responsiveness to Context
6. Collaboration
7. Working with Sub-national Governments
8. Monitoring and Evaluation Processes
9. Facilitation
CLD Rubric: Dimensions
Movement for Community-led Development

10. ▪ Not a representative sample of all CLD
▪ Limited to work of MCLD Members
▪ Limited to reports in English
▪ Absence of evidence does not mean
evidence of absence
Limitations
Movement for Community-led Development

11. The coverage of the reports is highly
concentrated in Africa and Asia
173 programs in 65 countries

12. Six types of CLD programs
1. Service Delivery
2. Agency and Empowerment
3. Service Delivery and Agency
4. Capacity Development
5. Policy Advocacy
6. Social Accountability
Movement for Community-led Development

13. Movement for Community-led Development
Presence of CLD
characteristics
Most programs speak
about “Participation,
Inclusion and Voice” and
“Facilitation”
Fewer articulate
“Sustainability” (including
exit strategies) and
“Accountability”
Participation, Inclusion
& Voice
Facilitation
Exit Strategy &
Sustainability
Accountability

14. Programs < 3 years:
Fewer CLD characteristics
Low scores in "Collaboration"
and "Working with sub-
national governments"
Inclusion often limited to women;
Heavy reliance on women’s work:
Impact on time poverty over time?
Programs with youth participants
more CLD characteristics
Greater number of CLD
characteristics in
programs with new
community groups
Findings: A Few Highlights
Movement for Community-led Development
Program
Duration
Matters
Who is
included?
Community
groups

15. Movement for Community-led Development
Health-related and
Governance programs show
more CLD characteristics
(presence up to 20% higher)
Economic Empowerment
related programs show fewer
CLD characteristics
(presence 20% less)

16. Rethink
Evaluations to
capture CLD
RECOMMENDATIONS
Primary research to
ground findings from
secondary data –inclusion
of community voices
Use and improve
our tools
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17. NEXT STEPS
Learn more and join our collaborative research
Rapid Realist Review: How, why and under what circumstances do facilitation and
community leadership lead to improved resilience, equity and thereby food security
Meta-synthesis: Impact of CLD (across sectors)
Adapting evaluation methodologies for CLD
Feedback on tools through user data and sense-making workshops
Movement for Community-led Development
Email
gunjan.veda@thp.org
Website
https://mcld.org
Twitter
https://twitter.com/comm
unityleddev?lang=en
Report/Toolkit
https://mcld.org/scoping-sub-
group/

18. THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!

19. ● Write to: gunjan.veda@thp.org
● Download the report:
https://mcld.org/download-the-
unpacking-cld-report/
● Download the toolkit:
https://mcld.org/scoping-sub-group/
● Visit: https://mcld.org/
FEEDBACK, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS