Financing for Community-Led Development: Putting People First

  • Date: 15 July 2015, 1:15pm - 2:45pm
  • Location: Intercontinental Meeting 3

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.    Neguest Mekonnen, Country Director, The Hunger Project-Ethiopia
2.    Orla O’Neill, Assistant Country Director-Programs, CONCERN Worldwide Ethiopia
3.    Beth Tritter, VP for Policy and Evaluations Department, Millennium Challenge Corporation
4.    Cheick Traore, UN Youth Envoy for Post2015, Burkina Faso; Youth Representative, Restless Development
5.    Tom Arnold, Coordinator, SUN Movement – moderator (tbc)

Related Information

Contact

For inquiries regarding this side event, please contact

Engage