Locally led development calls for reshaping existing processes and practices, to create a genuine power shift. Project Maitri, a pilot initiative aimed at improving girl’s education, is an example of such reshaping..

This report captures the evolutionary journey LEAP has been on since its inception in 2016, the challenges it faces as it continues to push for long term sustainability from philanthropic funding and the lessons learned for education programming from the Liberia Education Advancement Program (LEAP) perspective.

Social outcomes marketplace - a potentially game-changing mechanism for buying and selling SDG outcomes. This approach could move beyond both carbon credits and the stop-start nature of traditional aid projects, offering a more direct and sustainable way to fund social impact. 

How might outcomes-based partnerships help to build broader and longer-term capacity for effective policy implementation?

What conditions and characteristics are needed to successfully engage in outcomes-based partnerships?

Part five of our Lessons from Colombia series.

Part two of our Lessons from Colombia series.