Resources

In 2025, in partnership with the World Council of Churches (WCC), Caritas Internationalis, and a range of national and local faith partners, World Vision convened 93 Faith-Based Nutrition Dialogues across 20 countries, engaging 7,697 participants. Participants included faith leaders, women,…

Visit the United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development 2025 Annual Report.

Report on JLI’s 2025 activities and progress.

Why Religious Freedom Matters: Human Rights and Human Flourishing by Allen D. Hertzke was published in April 2026 through University of Notre Dame Press. Drawing on twenty-five years of immersion in global networks of scholarship and advocacy, this book offers…

In a recent issue of the Living Planet Monitor, the World Council of Churches (WCC) featured a success story from the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) across pages 64–66. The feature showcases how localized faith responses…

Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, remains a critical public health challenge in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only two countries where wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) continues to circulate. Despite substantial global progress since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication…

This report captures the experiences and perspectives of how faith actors uniquely define, enact, approach, and validate localization and decolonization objectives. Amid growing calls to shift power and agency to local communities, the study investigates the conceptualization of localization and…

Faith actors are well recognized as first responders and trusted partners for communities that face forced migration due to climate change and related events. They mobilize material support (food, shelter, medical treatment) while delivering important psychosocial and spiritual care to…

Climate migration is no longer a distant scenario; it is now a present-day challenge. Around the world, rising seas, shifting rainfall patterns, flooding, droughts, and heatwaves are forcing people from their homes through both slow-onset pressures and sudden, catastrophic events.…