1. Pathways to Development
through
Local Faith Communities
Development Futures Conference
UTS November 21-22, 2013

2. Increasing the Engagement of
Faith Groups in Development
Jean Duff

3. International trends in
development favor increased
engagement of faith groups.
Local partnership—capacity building
Cross sector alliances
Resilience and Sustainability
Effectiveness and efficiency informed by data & value Value for
money
• Gains in child survival/child health; new emphasis on community
health care over biomedical
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4. Reductions in Under 5 Child
Mortality by Disease

5. 10 Promises for Children
To save and improve the lives of all children, we pledge to promote, encourage, and advocate for the following actions by parents and children:
1. Breastfeed all newborns exclusively through the age of six months;
2. Immunize children and newborns with all recommended vaccines, especially through the age of two
years;
3. Eliminate all harmful traditions and violence against children, and ensure children grow up in a safe
and protective environment;
4. Feed children with proper nutritional foods and micronutrient supplements, where available, and deworm children;
5. Give oral rehydration salts (ORS) and daily Zinc supplements for 10 – 14 days to all children suffering
from diarrhea;
6. Promptly seek treatment when a child is sick; give children antibiotic treatment for pneumonia;
7. Have children drink water from a safe source, including water that has been purified and kept clean
and covered, away from fecal material;
8. Have all children wash their hands with soap and water especially before touching food, after going
to the latrine or toilet and after dealing with refuse;
9. Have all children use a toilet or latrine, and safely dispose of children’s feces; prevent children from
defecating in the open;
10. Where relevant, have all children sleep nightly under insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent
malaria, and at the immediate onset of fever seek medical care for children to receive proper
malaria testing and treatment.

6. What is distinctive about faith
groups’ activity and contributions?
• Influence and trust: 75% of Africans report that religious leaders are
the people they trust most (Gallup 2005)
• Reach: There are roughly 100,000 faith-inspired organizations
working on health and development in Africa – less than 1%
international NGOs (TBFF 2012); vast, uncounted congregational
networks
• Delivery: Christian Health Networks account for between 30-60% of
health services in some African countries (Chand & Patterson 2007)

7. Towards Increased Engagement
Faith-based
activities
Private
practice
Public
policy &
innovative
financing

8. Need for Evidence
about
faith-based activity and contribution
Evidence based policy making
Performance based financing
Evidence informed best practice
The Joint Learning Initiative on
Faith & Local Communities

10. Papua New Guinea
Church Partnership Program
Phases I &II (2014-2016)
David Syme

11. Sustainable Development
Conventional Thinking:
Sustainable Development is about achieving the sustained economic growth needed to
meet human needs, improve living standards, and provide the financial resources that
make environmental protection possible.
Alternative Thinking:
Little of the growth of the past twenty years has improved the quality of human life.
Most of the benefit has gone to the very wealthy and the remainder has been offset by
the costs of resource depletion, social stress, and environmental health and other
problems caused by growth. Sustainable Development is about creating:
 sustainable economies that equitably meet human needs without extracting
resource inputs or expelling wastes in excess of the environment's regenerative
capacity, and
 sustainable human institutions that assure both security and opportunity for social,
intellectual, and spiritual growth.
Originally prepared for the Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, Washington, DC
By David C. Korten, The People Centered Development Forum, Revised September 11, 1996.

12. CPP: Historical Context
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2001 – Three Australian FBO’s ( ABM, ADRA and Caritas) initiated and funded an
external participatory and formative evaluation of their PNG programs there to assess
the degree to which their programs were having any success. The evaluation
highlighted strengths as well as weaknesses.
2002 – AusAID Director General met with NGO leadership to brief them on current
issues including difficulties with the PNG Aid program. He made a statement that “We
(AusAID) needs to find alternative ways of doing business in PNG” He indicated that
AusAID would be open to new types of partnership as part of that process.
2002-2004 – The three directors met with the DG after the meeting and expressed their
convictions based upon their experience and the recent evaluation that AusAID along
with many other donors had failed to recognise the role and influence (positive as well
as sometimes negative) that Churches had in a PNG Society which is constitutionally
Christian
2004 – The Church Partnership Program Phase 1 was funded by AusAID and placed
within the PNG Democratic Governance Section of AusAID. The Church representation
was increased to seven Australian Church organisations namely – Anglican, Baptist,
Catholic, Lutheran, Salvation Army, Seventh-day Adventist and Uniting Churches.

13. Purpose
“To enhance the capacity of the PNG Churches to
contribute to PNG development and social
stability” (CPP I Goal ) through “Partnerships of
mutual accountability and learning between
Churches, NGOs and the Governments of PNG
and Australia that improve their individual and
collective effectiveness” (CPP II Core Objective) in
contributing to the “Improved well-being of women
and men, girls and boys, particularly in remote
rural areas ” (CPP II Impact).

14. Design Features
• Rolling Design with long-term commitment
• Each Organisation at its own pace
• Church leaders in PNG to engage together in supporting and
promoting the CPP program
• The authenticity and dignity of each Church to be maintained while
seeking more open dialogue and interaction with each other
• Particular emphasis upon governance and nation building – not just
service delivery
• Development of ‘Communities of Practice’ and cross – organisation
where innovation and lessons learned are shared formally and
informally

15. Key Results
• “The CPP remains a relevant and effective element of AusAID’s
overall development cooperation program in PNG”. Independent Review
(draft) of 2 Democratic Governance Programs Feb 2013
• Emerging Communities of Practice.
• Evidence of inter-organisational dialogue, planning, technical support
and monitoring is increasing both formally and informally from almost
non-existent in 2004 to a ‘regular feature in 2013’.
• Informal sharing and assistance is arguably even stronger but hard to
measure.
• Service delivery, particularly in health and education has been
significantly strengthened.

16. Lessons Being Learned
• That CPP is not just another DFAT Program it is a program initiated
by and through the Churches with significant support from DFAT.
• The rolling design with its flexible approach is a key success factor in
the CPP but it has been challenging to adapt M&E frameworks to
facilitate it.
• Church networks reach PNG rural areas and the populace that live
there in a manner that no other organisation can.
• Social change rarely takes place unless the local faith systems
support that change.Faith systems can facilitate development change
but they can also inhibit it.
• Recognising Faith based communities as one stakeholder in the
development process and negotiating their understanding and
support from the beginning is important.

18. Gender & Faith Communities
Mark Webster

20. Gender Review
2012

21. Findings indicated that all CPP
church partners engage with
gender issues in their program
activities and that all seek to
contribute to the achievement of
gender change in relation to
gender equity and women’s rights.

23. COLLABORATE
CHAMPION
PERSIST
MEASURE

25. Gender Stories
Rita Maruha

26. Leadership

28. Small Business
Management

29. Vegetable Farming

30. Testimony
Before June 2013
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Sex worker
Married to pimp
Illiterate
Dreams of a better life
After June 2013
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Acquired SBM skills
Opened personal bank account
Saving regularly
Stopped sex work
Attends literacy class
Husband happy

32. Compassion’s Partnership
with Local Churches
Dr. Alistair Sim

33. Our Child Development Model

34. Our Child Development Model

35. Our Mandate

36. Global Role of Religion

37. Strengths of Local Church
Partnership
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Capacity
Presence
Context
Credibility
Endurance
Passion
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Common Mission
Collaboration
Cooperation
Mutual Respect
Mutual Benefit

38. Challenges of Local Church
Partnership

39. Opportunities of Local Church
Partnership

41. Joint Learning Initiative on
Faith and Local Communities
Rob Kilpatrick

42. Christian Aid
JLI F&LC Vision:
• Robust evidence and smart communications to transform the quality,
effectiveness, and impact of partnerships between faith groups and the
development community
• Collaborative learning platform that is cross sector, interfaith, cross discipline
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43. The Joint Learning Initiative
• Why: To support effective engagement with faith
groups by practitioners, policy makers, and donors
• Who: Over 70 multi-sector & international partners
• How: Collecting, commissioning, and communicating
evidence about the faith groups’ activity and impact
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44. Joint
Learning
Hubs
Collect
Self-driven,
Collaborative,
open source
learning communities
Communicate
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Commission

45. Learning Hub:
HIV/AIDS and
Maternal Health
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What is the impact of faith groups on HIV
and Maternal Health, with special
attention to PMTCT and skilled
birth attendants?

46. Hypothesis: Maternal health services are commonly
provided by faith-based actors
Data Point 1: In Uganda, 50% of maternal health and child
services are provided through faith-based institutions (USAID &
Access 2007).
Data Point 2: 90% of faith-inspired health facilities in subSaharan Africa offer maternal and newborn services (Chand
and Patterson 2007)
Data Point 3: Faith groups provide 70% of nursing and
midwifery training in Malawi and Uganda, and between 30 to
55% in Tanzania and Zambia (Pearl, Chand, and Hafner 2009)
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47. Hypothesis: Faith groups influence demand for and
uptake of maternal and child health services
Data Point 1: Faith community engagement helped improve the
percentage of pregnant women who received a course of IPT
under direct observation from 43% to 94% in Kasese District,
Uganda (USAID & Access 2007)
Data Point 2: Faith-based interventions in Mozambique, Kenya,
Uganda, the DRC and India found that these programs couple
outreach to the broader communities with clinical services
(Chand & Patterson 2007)
Data Point 3: Religious and spiritual beliefs were seen to be a
key barrier to exclusive breast feeding from a 2010 barrier
analysis in Burundi (Francisco 2010)
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48. Samaritan's Purse
Learning Hub:
Capacity
Building
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How do Faith Groups strengthen the capacity of
Local Faith Communities to care for the health
and wellbeing of their communities?

49. Anglican Alliance
Learning Hub:
Resilience
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What is the impact of faith groups in
promoting individual and community
resilience in humanitarian situations?

50. Global Polio
Eradication Initiative
Learning Hub:
Immunization
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How do faith groups contribute
to the delivery of vaccines and
immunizations?

51. Collaborate
Exchange
Communicate
Sponsor/co-fund
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Robust
Data
Faith Communities
Fully Engaged to
Realize a World
Without Poverty