Pathways Towards Effective Locally Led Development Co‑operation: Learning by Example (2024)
This OECD peer learning synthesis report explores what is required to more effectively support locally led development, examining how policies, financing, partnerships, and management systems can better enable local actors. It highlights the importance of clear institutional frameworks, flexible long-term funding, and equitable partnerships that redistribute power through trust, co-creation, and shared ownership. The report also calls for reforms to management and delivery practices, including simplifying compliance, broadening approaches to risk, and embedding participatory, locally driven accountability and learning. It emphasizes that successful locally led development depends on context-specific, sequenced, and locally defined approaches, as well as on peer learning grounded in shared definitions and proven practices.