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Reflections from State of the Debate Webinar

On November 05, 2025, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI) hosted a pivotal webinar titled “State of the Debate: Faith Actors’ Experiences of and Perspectives on Localization and Decolonization.” This event brought together a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and ...

Strengthening the Nexus of Faith, Gender and Immunization: Turning Evidence into Action for Children and Communities

On November 19, 2025, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), in collaboration with UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, UNICEF Pakistan and Afghanistan, Religions for Peace, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and faith networks across the region convened a dissemination ...

JLI and Christian Aid Convene Global Symposium on Faith and Climate Migration

On October 23, 2025, the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) and Christian Aid co-hosted a dynamic global online symposium. The event explored the critical role of faith actors in responding to the human realities of climate-driven migration and examined how stronger partnerships can ...

JLI Global MEAL Hub Kicks Off 2025 with Insightful Member Engagement Session

On April 10th, 2025, the JLI Global MEAL Hub convened its first session of the year, bringing together members from across South Asia, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe for a reflective and forward-looking dialogue. The highlight of the meeting was a presentation and discussion of the Hub’s ...

JLI Global and Middle East Hub Talk – July 2024

-Arabic below- JLI held its first joint meeting on Wednesday 24 July at 9am (NYC) | 2pm (London) | 4pm (Beirut) of the Global MEAL and Faith Hub and the Middle East Hub on MEAL and Faith under the title of “When Global, Regional, and Local meet: MEAL and Faith in the Middle East and beyond”. The two hubs, one ...

In-person meeting of our Middle East Hub on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) and Faith

The Middle East Joint Learning Hub on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) and Faith held its long-awaited in-person meeting from the 22nd until the 25th of February 2024, in Istanbul, Türkiye. The meeting marked an important milestone in the hub’s activities culminating in meeting ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Bottom-Up Project Co-Design

On January 17 2024, JLI held a MEAL Hub session where members had the opportunity to learn about bottom-up project co-design from hub co-chair Mukunda Adhikari. The session covered how issues such as decolonization, localization, participation and inclusion should be taken into consideration when designing ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Culturally Responsive Evaluation

On July 12, 2023, JLI MEAL Hub members had the opportunity to learn about Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) with guest speaker Dr. Wanda Casillas. CRE provides a way of understanding how culture influences us as diverse MEAL practitioners and program stakeholders, and adjusting responsively in ways that ...

JLI MEAL Hub – Creative methods and approaches : Data and displacement in northern Nigeria and South Sudan

JLI started a new series on creative faith-sensitive MEAL and research methods. In this third session of the year, Prof. Vicki Squire from the University of Warwick spoke about a research project she has recently completed on data and displacement in northern Nigeria and South Sudan, as part of a collaboration ...

JLI started a new series on creative faith-sensitive MEAL and research methods. In this second session of the year, Cyprian Yobera spoke about his work in Kenya and the UK. Join the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Working Group (MEAL WG). Every other month, the group will host a ...

Webinar Summary: Accountable Localisation – Local Faith Actors Speak Out

The Fair & Equitable Dialogues Series continues to explore different challenging themes related to unequal power dynamics, decolonization and localization in international humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development work through showcasing research evidence and practices from diverse actors around the ...