Financing for Community-Led Development: Putting People First
Organised by
- The Hunger Project
- CONCERN Worldwide
Summary
This side event will focus on how integrated strategies at the community level will be critical for capacity building and ensuring inclusivity of all persons without distinction and at all levels.
A variety of stakeholders with expertise in integrated development strategies, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the US Government, CONCERN Worldwide, Burkina Faso, Restless Development and The Hunger Project, will discuss why grassroots, systems-based programming will be critical to achieve the SDGs and why multi-sectoral funding streams will ensure that they are carried out to their utmost efficiency and effectiveness. Speakers will discuss evidence for successful implementation that places the hungriest and most impoverished and disempowered people – especially women – at the center. The catalytic role of CSOs in establishing strong social accountability mechanisms and effective partnerships between citizens and local governments will be prominent.
Speakers:
1.聽聽 聽Neguest Mekonnen, Country Director, The Hunger Project-Ethiopia
2.聽聽 聽Orla O鈥橬eill, Assistant Country Director-Programs, CONCERN Worldwide Ethiopia
3.聽聽 聽Beth Tritter, VP for Policy and Evaluations Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation
4.聽聽 聽Cheick Traore, UN Youth Envoy for Post2015, Burkina Faso; Youth Representative, Restless Development
5.聽聽 聽Tom Arnold, Coordinator, SUN Movement – moderator (tbc)
Related Information
Contact
For inquiries regarding this side event, please contact
- Mary Kate Costello, marykate.costello@thp.org, +17817899101