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
21 March 2023 | People First Talk with Adria Goodson
In this talk, Adria Goodson, Director of the Ford Foundation Global Fellowship Program, shared her lessons learned on the leadership we need now and how to cultivate it. We’ll explore…
31 January 2023 | People First Talk with Wendy Kopp and Khadija Bakhtiar
In this talk, Wendy & Khadija shared lessons learned from across the Teach For All network about developing collective leadership.
What We’re Reading
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…
Education Reimagined: Leadership for a new era
This WISE ALL-IN special publication bears witness to the critical role of leadership in promoting and enabling student and system-deep learning. The collection reveals the centrality of education leadership in…
Locally Driven Development
Locally led development is a complex process that the development community, in the United States and around the world, has spent several decades trying to get right. Yet, despite all…
Valuing local knowledge and solutions for SDG progress
In this sixteenth interview of the “17 Rooms” podcast, Jamie Drummond and Kennedy Odede discuss shifts in power, process, and funding to uplift proximate leaders and value local knowledge and…
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].
