Locally-led development (LLD) is increasingly recognized as essential for achieving effective development cooperation (EDC) outcomes. This means that local actors must drive the priorities, strategies, and implementation of development efforts. Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a critical role in this process, ensuring that development is rooted in local contexts, needs, and capacities.

Drawing from the discussions during the Regional Meeting and Workshop earlier this year, this primer provides a background on the importance and role of locally-led development (LLD) in effective development cooperation (EDC) and synthesizes campaign strategies proposed by CSOs that promote LLD as a framework in EDC.