Community and Localization
The community is at the centre of all our interventions in a given context, and through the different components of the CPA, we constantly engage with all the members of the community and foster community engagement and empowerment. Moreover, in its design, the CPA favours localization and inclusion of local NGOs, CBOs and civil society organizations.
What is a community?
Guidelines:
Defining the Community.
CPA engages with all members of the community (including those who are more vulnerable and remain usually unnoticed and are therefore left behind)
Members of the community are
at the centre.
What does it mean concretely?
The CPA put people at the centre as the main priority
at each stage, recognizing that peopleโs (boys, girls,
men, women) opinions and strategies are concretely
used in providing better results than bulk
interventions.
Why is localization important?
Ensuring humanitarian development connectedness:
Collective outcomes, what does it mean?
The CPA is built on field experience and ensures continuity of relations and engagement of different population groups (AGD) independently from a project or programme. The action of engagement can be taken over by a different implementer and ultimately by local actors
CPA ensures engagement during projects and programmes
What is participation?
What is empowerment?
What can we do in each context?
Research:
The relevance of the community empowerment
Continuous mutual-feedback with different population groups (AGD)
โJust by going to a community
multiple times, they feel already
listened to.โ
The time used to listen to and engage with the
affected population is valuable in terms of dignity, in
a context where humanitarian organization just
gather data and provide things. For people is
important to have the dignity of not being treated
only as a recipient or beneficiary of material aspects
Reduce aid dependency:
Exit strategy is the goal
Guidelines:
Defining an exit strategy
Continue the Journey
with the rest of CPA Pillars:
BASICS OF CPA
COLLECT EVIDENCE
CAPTURE COMPLEXITY
