Partners: mc2h Foundation; Global Fund for Children
Period: 2026 – Ongoing
Country of operation: Ghana
Category: Education & Literacy, Community Development, Evidence Generation (MERL), Policy Analysis & Advocacy
Project Snapshot
The Ghana Community-Led Development (CLD) Collaborative is a multi-partner initiative aimed at strengthening community-driven approaches to education and literacy. Rooted in the belief that sustainable change happens when communities drive their own development, the Collaborative works to ensure that Community-Led Development is increasingly adopted, resourced, and legitimized within education planning and delivery.
The initiative supports local organizations, communities, and government actors to center community voices in designing solutions that address children’s educational needs. Through shared learning, evidence generation, and cross-partner collaboration, the Collaborative seeks to influence both practice and policy toward more equitable and locally driven education systems.
As the learning partner for the GCLeD Collaborative, PDA is supporting the mc2h Foundation and other partners to design and implement a robust Learning & Evaluation (L&E) framework that integrates participatory methodologies, strengthens outcome monitoring (OM), facilitates Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) processes, and synthesizes evidence to support advocacy for Community-Led Development approaches.
ACTIVITIES
- PDA participated in the inaugural three-day onboarding workshop held in Accra, which convened Collaborative partners to align on vision, principles, and shared learning priorities.
- PDA participated in a two-week intensive training workshop on advancing community-led wellbeing as a foundation for indigenous, community-driven development. The training wasdelivered by Tostan in Thiès, Senegal
- PDA developed a Learning & Evaluation (L & E) framework in collaboration with Collaborative partners to track and integrate learning across three inter-connected levels: community, partner, and Collaborative level
- PDA designed and carried out a baseline study engaging 12 implementing partners, 12 partner-selected communities, and a number of ecosystem representatives on the Collaborative. The findings will be collated into a baseline report to provide a benchmark for the Collaborative’s subsequent activities
- PDA is supporting each of the implementing partners with their community-level sensemaking processes, and helping them to document their processes, learnings, and findings
Through this structured learning architecture, the Collaborative aims to generate actionable evidence, strengthen community voice, and champion CLD as a viable and scalable approach to equitable education in Ghana.
