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EVENT: October 13 - Is it Locally Led? Tools to Advance Localization: The LEAF and USAID's Locally Led Development Checklist

  • 1.  EVENT: October 13 - Is it Locally Led? Tools to Advance Localization: The LEAF and USAID's Locally Led Development Checklist

    Posted 10-05-2021 04:59
    Event from USAID:

    The U.S. Agency for International Development's Local, Faith and Transformative Partnerships (LFT) Hub invites you to join us for a presentation on tools developed by the LFT Hub, Oxfam America, and Save the Children to support USAID Missions and implementing partners who are seeking to advance localization efforts and make their work more locally led. 

    Join us for the session on Wednesday, October 13 from 9:00 - 10:00 AM ET:

    Is it Locally Led? Tools to Advance Localization: The LEAF and USAID's Locally Led Development Checklist

    Presenters: 

    • Adam Phillips, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the LFT Hub, USAID 

    • Danielle Pearl, Evidence and Learning Team Lead, LFT Hub, USAID

    • Colleen Brady, Senior MEL Specialist, USAID

    • Liana Poghosyan, Executive Director, Prisma

    • Tariq Ahmad, Acting Manager, Aid and Development Finance, Oxfam America

    • Andrew Wainer, Save the Children US

    • Zahra Dahir, Save the Children Somalia

    Register and join the event in WebEx.
    Join by phone: ‪207.182.190.20, meeting number 199 725 4692

    Are you seeking to make your work more locally led? Join us to learn more about tools available to support USAID partners and Missions advance locally led development in your work, how you might apply them, and how you can contribute to strengthening them. 

     

    The session will feature introductory remarks from Adam Phillips, the Director of the LFT Hub and the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and begin with an introduction to how USAID is conceptualizing locally led development. We will then hear from Oxfam America and Save the Children teams on their development of the Local Engagement Assessment Framework (LEAF) tool, and applications of and learning from the LEAF to date.

     

    USAID staff will present the Locally Led Development Checklist, a pause-and-reflect tool based on the LEAF and designed to be used by USAID Mission teams and implementing partners. Prisma, a local research partner in Armenia, will share their experience piloting the Checklist and lessons learned. While the Checklist tool is already being used by USAID Missions, the LFT Hub is eager for others in the USAID community, including implementing partners, to engage with the tool and provide feedback to ensure it is useful to all those working to make their work more locally led. 

     

    We look forward to hearing your questions and feedback!



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    Jenna Thoretz
    Government Affairs and Advocacy Intern
    Humentum
    jenna.thoretz@humentum.org
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