Women, young people, and community elders work together to better understand their community’s economic and social relations and the underlying causes of poverty. Formed under the flagship Citizens’ ...

Community-driven development and governance mechanisms centre on empowering local populations to shape projects, allocate resources and hold public authorities to account. This approach shifts ...

In Nigeria, the Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) aims to increase access by the poor to improved social services and infrastructure in a sustainable manner This bottom-up approach, ...

Informal settlements in Africa are diverse. Across regions and even in the same city, socioeconomic and physical conditions vary. One thing is common though: upgrading them is a challenge. Among the ...

Activist Billion GODSun holds a sign demanding community ownership of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall. (Photo by Paulo Freire Lopez; courtesy Downtown Crenshaw) This is your first of three free ...

,MRS. Ronke Ajimoke gave birth to her first child in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. She decided to go to her remote village for her second baby. What could make an educated and “city mother” want to ...

'rendered': 'A sociologist and development expert, Dr ChiChi Aniagolu-Okoye, has urged African leaders to harness cultural identities as tools for development rather than viewing them as sources of ...

Residents of five barangays in Daanbantayan, northern Cebu, are set to spearhead the implementation of new infrastructure and social development projects under the government’s community-driven ...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union (PIA) — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is advancing grassroots development nationwide through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and ...