"Taking down the fences between sectors has benefited all parties and increased the chance of sustainable results through community ownership and collaboration"
Philanthropy NZ 2009 conference participant
Testing the CLD Framework

Reflective Questions linked to CLD Framework

The intention of the questions aligned here with each of the elements of the CLD framework, is to help practitioners / actors focus their reflective thinking around the work they are doing (and their approach to it) and community-led development.  It provides a way to surface learnings, think about implications and how to use and share information.

 

CLD Framework

Reflective questions

Community-led and community driven

 

How can you be confident this is CLD?

§  What is driving the initiative?

§  Who is actively involved?

§  Who takes most of the responsibility for the initiative?

§  Who makes the big decisions?

§  Who makes the day-to-day decisions?

 

Work together - across boundaries and silos

 

§  How are sectors / people working together for change?

§  What is helping this?

§  What is hindering this?

 

Asset / strength-based

 

§  What evidence is there of a strengths / asset-based approach?

§  How is this work using or building on existing skills, knowledge, relationships, values, resources?

 

Learning and adapting

 

§  How is learning made conscious?

§  How is learning valued?

§  How is learning used and by whom?

 

Demonstrating change and developments - results and solutions oriented

 

§  What improvements have been made?

(what is the tangible evidence of this)

§  How have results been achieved?

§  What are the critical ingredients in this change process (e.g. individuals, relationships, values, strategies)

§  What transformations (i.e. processes that may enable further changes) are you noticing?

 

Whole systems change

 

§  What are the intended systems level changes?

§  What evidence is there of systems changes (e.g. changes in policy, programme, resource flows, ways of operating)

§  What other factors are contributing to these changes?

 

 

Considering your reflections from above:

  1. What are the key learnings or insights from your reflections?
  2. So what do these learnings mean for your future actions / decisions?
  3. Who else could you share this information / learning with and how?