On March 11, 2021, JLI held a webinar where Dr. Riham Ahmed Khafagy (Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs, Zayed University) presented her paper ‘Faith-based Organizations: Humanitarian Mission or Religious Missionary’. In her presentation, Dr. Ahmed Khafagy compared the British…
Published: 2021
Author:Riham Ahmed Khafagy
Church Agencies Network - Disaster Operations Date published: 27 MAY 2016 This Roadmap was developed to: Provide a strategic framework for Church agency collaboration in the humanitarian and disaster risk management realm Create an internal understanding of our intention in…
Published: 2017
This Call to Action lays out a series of goals and actions to achieve greater inclusion of local faith actors (LFAs) in humanitarian action. The Call to Action is informed by the rich conversations that took place before, during, and…
Published: 2017
Author:Arne Naess-Holm, Amjad Saleem, Olivia Wilkinson
With Recommendations for Improved Partnership and Effectiveness This study contributes knowledge about anti-trafficking faith-based and non-faith-based NGOs—how they compare in their goals and mission????, why they do what they do, the care philosophies and services that they have, and how…
Published: 2020
Author:John Frame
The ‘Compendium of Good Practices on Conducting MEAL in Partnerships with International Actors and Local Faith Actors’ bridges the knowledge gap on how international and local faith actors practice MEAL in a diverse range of development and humanitarian contexts. It…
Published: 2021
Author:Jennifer Philippa Eggert
Jamyang Foundation - India and Bangladesh How this story represents an international-local faith partnership in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL): International Buddhist faith-based organisation specializing in women's and girls' education. Partnerships with local Buddhist nuns; education programmers, including secular…
Published: 2021
Author:Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities
Contextual Bible Study Manual on Young People Africa is a "young continent.". The majority of the continent's citizens are young people. Churches in Africa must reflect this reality in their planning, activities and programmes. Unfortunately, however, young people tend to…
Published: 2017
Author:Ezra Chitando and Nyambura J. Njoroge
Accord Network organizations are facing many new challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has required rapid adaptation in many areas, including in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL). In this paper, four case studies of Christ-centered NGOs are presented…
Published: 2020
Author:Rodney Green, Nathan Mallonee, and Kristen Check
The importance of the spiritual dimension in the lives of people living in conditions of poverty and social exclusion and the often-critical role of faith-based organisations has gained increasing relevance in development research and practice. A growing line of research…
Published: 2019
Author:Severine Deneulin, Ann Mitchell
You are invited to participate in a new E-Course on Faith Sensitive Humanitarian Response: Mental Health & Psychosocial support. The purpose of this new 1.5 hour training is to give the learner an introduction to faith-sensitive response to humanitarian emergencies,…
Published: 2020
Author:ACT Alliance, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, Islamic Relief Worldwide, and the DCA Learning Lab
Joint webinar on the two-year pilot scheme of a ‘Bridge Builder’ model, developed by a consortium of partners: Tearfund UK, Tearfund Belgium, Tearfund in South Sudan, RedR UK, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Islamic Relief in South Sudan, the Joint Learning Initiative…
Published: 2020
Religious organizations have an important role in development aid. For a long time, this role was not acknowledged by the main players in the development arena, but this has changed over the last few decades. Yet, this role is not…
Published: 2020
Author:Elco van Burg
This article examines the intersection of religious faith and the ‘fight against modern slavery’ in the UK, as yet unexplored in sociological literature. Analysis of faith based organisations’ (FBOs) activities in this area challenges understandings of a postsecular rapprochement between…
Published: 2020
Author:Gwyneth Lonergan, Lancaster University; Hannah Lewis, University of Sheffield; Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds; Louise Waite, University of Leeds. Corresponding author: Gwyneth Lonergan, Sociology, Lancaster University
Dr. Olivia Wilkinson, JLI Director of Research, presented at the USAID summit on October 6, 2020 in applying secular-religious understanding to a humanitarian response.
Published: 2020
Author:Olivia Wilkinson
We face major sustainability challenges in the 21st Century. Fortunately, we have a unique opportunity to implement solutions at a global scale. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) grew out of a pioneering idea to mobilize the world around a…
Published: 2020
Author:Bhumi Global, The Parliament of the World's Religions, UNEP Faith for Earth, United Religions Initiative
A joint JLI - WFDD - Berkley Center Initiative on COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic intersects with long-standing food security and nutrition issues, especially in East Africa. Has the agenda on food security shifted with the coronavirus crisis, and if so,…
Published: 2020
Author:Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, World Faiths Development Dialogue
A joint JLI - WFDD - Berkley Center Initiative on COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic intersects with the long-standing humanitarian crisis around the borderlands between the United States, Mexico, and the northern triangle countries of Central America. How is the pandemic…
Published: 2020
Author:Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, World Faiths Development Dialogue
The report highlights findings from our research and recommendations from the pilot of the Bridge Builder Model for humanitarian organisations and donors seeking ways to increase localisation in humanitarian response. This is a two-way, capacity-sharing model aimed at bringing together…
Published: 2020
Author:Dr Olivia Wilkinson, Prof Emma Tomalin, Kuyang Logo, Wani Laki Anthony and Florine De Wolf
The aim of this cross-sectional study is two-fold. First, it investigates the barriers experienced by sexually exploited Cambodian women when integrating into Christian churches. Second, it explores pastors’ perspectives towards sexually exploited women integrating into churches. A mixed-method approach to…
Published: 2020
Author:Tricia J. Hester, Sopheak Kong, and Glenn M. Miles
This new report –published during Christian Aid Week –warns that without immediate and decisive action, Covid-19 could trigger a grave disaster for people in the poorest countries and communities, who are ill-equipped to cope with the ruinous effects of the…
Published: 2020
Author:Tomilola Ajayi, James Macintyre, Claire Meeghan, Joe Ware
As religious actors and networks of faith-based organizations, we are called to work together for gender equality and justice, amid global changes, rising nationalism, and conflict. We are living in changing global, regional, and national environments. As COVID-19 spreads around…
Published: 2020
Author:ACT Alliance, Islamic Relief Worldwide, World Council of Churches, Side By Side, Anglican Communion, act Church of Sweden, the girls' brigade, We Will Speak Out SA, Christian Aid, United Society Partners in the Gospel, DCA Act alliance, Presbyterian Women Aotearoa New Zealand
Local, national, and international faith-based organizations and health care COVID-19 response Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) and the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) wanted to learn how faith-based organizations and health care providers in international…
Published: 2020
Author:Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) and the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI)
This article examines the engagement of Indonesian Islamic civil society organisations in the international arena by paying particular attention to the role of the Islamic modernist movement, Muhammadiyah. Beyond its vibrant religious and social activism in the domestic context of…
Published: 2020
Author:Hilman Latief and Haedar Nashir
All children should be cared for in a family environment by their parents, relatives or other loving adults. But there are growing numbers of children who do not enjoy this most basic right and suffer from neglect and extreme vulnerability.…
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Local faith-based organisations (FBOs) and faith leaders played important roles in the Ebola response in DRC. Unfortunately, however, the international and national response was slow to recognise their contribution. Funding and decision-making on the response centred on UN and host…
Published: 2020
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