Upcoming | 30 October 2023 | People First Talk with Cheryl L. Dorsey
In this People First Talk, we’ll hear from Cheryl L. Dorsey, President of Echoing Green. Spanish interpretation will be available.
Collective Leadership as a Path for Sustainable Development
Putting People, Agency and Leadership First
Introduction
The People First Community is a cross-sectoral and globally diverse group of practitioners, academics, and public and private sector actors with a shared belief in the importance of prioritizing investing in collective leadership development as a path for sustainable development. This Community believes we have not had enough focus on leadership development within the international development field to this point, and that when the international community has focused on it, we have not done so with a goal of developing collective, diverse, locally rooted leadership focused on sustainable development.
The objective of this Community is twofold. First, the Community intends to be a space for learning, thought partnership, and collaboration among its members. Second, we aim to raise awareness about the importance of growing investment in collective leadership development and influence the international development ecosystem.
Who we are
We are a community of practitioners, academics, and public and private sector actors who believe in the people in developing contexts to drive their own progress, and have seen through our own experiences that investing in them must be our first focus as a development community. We are committed to living into the principles of a “people first” approach to development in our own work and to advocating for the broader transformation of international development towards this approach.
Events
Upcoming | 11 October 2023 | People First Talk with Safeena Husain
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10 July 2023 | People First Talk with Martín Burt
In this Talk, we heard from Martín about his work to shift the development paradigm and how we measure poverty from a top-down approach, to one that recognizes that agency…
What We’re Reading
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4 organizations taking a fresh approach to localization
The global development sector is grappling with how to walk the talk on localization. USAID has grabbed the headlines, after Administrator Samantha Power pledged in 2021 that 25% of all…
Interview with Anna Molero (People First Community Secretariat)
Anna Molero of People First Community Secretariat spoke with Catherine Edwards on March 7, 2023.
When We Thrive, Our World Thrives: Stories of Young People Growing Up With Adversity
This book is about the graduates of Dream a Dream. It centres on moving, personal stories of young people and what it means to grow up with adversity and thrive.…
Our Predecessors Built a World of Winners and Losers. It’s Time for Something Different.
Our international rules-based order through which the world’s nations pursue global peace and development is crashing into the limits of its founding vision. What our predecessors built some eight decades…
Liderazgo colectivo para el desarrollo sostenible: es hora de priorizar lo importante
Desde la historia de nuestros países tendríamos dificultades para relacionarnos. Nos separan el océano atlántico y la forma como se cuenta la historia de cada lado. En España, la conquista…
Join our Community
We invite you to join the conversation! Share your ideas, give feedback on our evolving effort, and contribute to our expanded understanding and adoption of a “people first” approach to development.
For more information, please contact [email protected].
For more information, please contact [email protected].
