GDI’s Efforts to Localize Development
Over the last year, we’ve explored how GDI can help accelerate the field to localize development, unpacking the supply and demand barriers and outlining a series of interventions...
Localizing Development
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Localizing Development: Identifying Barriers, Solutions, and Opportunities
When we began our exploration of localizing development we started with a hypothesis:There are structural barriers that are limiting both donors and recipients from making real pr...
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Localizing Development: Proposed Supply Solutions to Overcome Barriers
In our last article we explored potential solutions to address barriers for domestically registered organizations to receive international funding. In addition to those solutions...
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Localizing Development: Proposed Demand Solutions to Overcome Barriers
Our initial exploration into localizing development was based on an idea: there are barriers to progress that need practical solutions if we want to make significant progress....
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Localizing Development: Why Haven’t We Made More Progress?
Despite their proximity to crisis-affected communities, deep contextual understanding, and tailored programmatic solutions, domestically-registered NGOs and civil society organi...
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Localizing Development: Our Process to Select Language
As GDI began our journey to consider how we could contribute to decolonizing and localizing development, we were immediately faced with several questions:What does it mean t...
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Localizing Development: Too Little Progress, Too Slowly
Localizing development, or shifting the power to global south organizations, has been discussed as a priority in international development and humanitarian relief for decades....
